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Learn how to be a great data communicator and visualizer with host Jon Schwabish. Hear from experts in the fields of data science, data visualization, and presentation skills to improve how you and your organization collect, analyze, and communicate your data in better, more…
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My Favorite Graphs: Stronger Together from The New York Times (opens the original)
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In this My Favorite Graphs episode, I revisit a 2016 New York Times visualization comparing the convention speeches of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. I explain why highlighting phrases across miniature pages can reveal themes in qualitative data that word counts and bar charts can miss. I share how I have used a simple version of this technique in my own work and discuss tools for creating similar views. Alicia contributes a voice note about the project's development, including the highlighte
Playfair, Power, and the People Behind the Data: Lauren Klein on Data by Design (opens the original)
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Lauren Klein joins me to talk about her new book, Data by Design [https://link.amazon/B01DQgByh], co-authored with a team of student collaborators. Over more than a decade of work, Lauren set out to place the history of data visualization in its full historical and political context, going well beyond the familiar "great men" narrative of Playfair and Snow. We talk about how she chose which historical visualizations to feature and redesign, the ethical questions that come up when working with da
My Favorite Graphs: The Guardian's "Bussed Out" (opens the original)
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This week I kick off a new series on the show: My Favorite Graphs. I'm going to walk through the projects that shaped how I think about data visualization, data communication, and data storytelling. I'm starting with the Guardian's "Bussed Out: How America Moves Its Homeless," published in December 2017, an 18-month investigation into the one-way bus tickets that US cities hand out to homeless people. There's a special treat at the end too! My Favorite Graph: Bussed Out [https://www.theguardian.
What Data Communicators Can Learn from Speech-Language Pathology (opens the original)
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In this very special episode of the podcast, I talk with my wife, Lauren Schwabish, a speech-language pathologist who helps adults recover communication after stroke, traumatic brain injury, and other neurological conditions. We discuss person-centered care, translating medical jargon into plain language for patients and families, and the visual tools and assistive technology Lauren builds to help people with aphasia communicate — with real lessons for anyone designing data visualizations, dashb
New Season, New Format: Live Shows, Accessibility, and My Favorite Dataviz (opens the original)
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Welcome back to Season 13 of the PolicyViz Podcast! In this quick solo kickoff, I walk you through everything I have planned this season, from a full episode on accessibility in data communication to a brand-new weekly series where I talk through some of my favorite data visualizations from the last 15 years. I'll also tell you about my very first live podcast recording, happening in November in Boston as part of the IEEE VIS Conference and the new Cluster Practitioner Summit I'm co-organizing.
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