Data Stories

150  |  Highlights from IEEE VIS'19 with Tamara Munzner and Robert Kosara

Randall Munroe is the mastermind behind the xkcd webcomics which have zillions of fans around the globe. In his stick figure cartoons and hilarious mini-stories, he comments on complicated scientific issues. Over the years, Randall has also created a number of data-heavy visualizations. Some of them tackle pressing issues such as climate change, while others mock conventions of visualization such as map projections or chart types.

148  |  Cognitive Science for Data Visualization with Lace Padilla

We have climate scientist Ed Hawkins on the show to talk about climate visualization. Ed is the person behind the famous Climate Spirals and Climate Stripe visualizations, both of which have a made a huge impact beyond the climate science community.

We have digital artist Nicholas Rougeux on the show to talk about his beautiful data art projects and the processes he follows. Nicholas created numerous iconic pieces with an extraordinary attention to details, such as "Seeing Music"...

We have Federica Cocco and John Burn-Murdoch on the show to talk about their new Financial Times visualization series called Data Crunch. The series features Federica and John having a data-driven conversation about some social or economic trend while aided by graphs and charts. It's a new way of doing data visualization...

144  |  History of Information Graphics with Sandra Rendgen

We have Matt Daniels on the show again. He is the CEO of The Pudding, a collective of journalist-engineers that create visual essays that explain ideas debated in culture. Their pieces are incredibly engaging, somewhat witty and always stunning from the visual point of view.

[Our podcast is fully listener-supported. That’s why you don’t have to listen to ads! Please consider becoming a supporter on Patreon or sending us a one-time donation through Paypal. And thank you!] We have Evan Peck on the show to talk about the research he and his students recently published on "Data Is Personal". The study consists of 42 interviews made in rural Pennsylvania to see how people from different educational backgrounds ranked a set of various data visualizations.

[Our podcast is fully listener-supported. That’s why you don’t have to listen to ads! Please consider becoming a supporter on Patreon or sending us a one-time donation through Paypal. And thank you!] We have Eva-Lotta Lamm joining us to talk about the value of sketching and how it relates to data visualization. Eva-Lotta is a UX designer turned expert on sketching and sketchnoting: the art of summarizing talks through sketches. In the show we talk about visual thinking, sketchnoting and parallels with data visualization.

We have the founding members of the Data Visualization society on the show to talk about how the project started and what are their plans for the future.

We have Tim Dwyer for Monash University to talk about his work on Immersive Analytics.

We are joined by Hannah Davis, a data visualization and sonification expert, to talk about how data sonification works and how she has gone about making her own amazing sonification projects, which create musical pieces based on data.

We are joined by Cameron Beccario who created the immensely impressive Earth visualization.

We have Pedro Cruz and John Wihbey on the show to talk about their beautiful project, the Simulated Dendrochronology of U.S. Immigration.

We have Lyn Bartram of Simon Fraser University and Alper Sarikaya of Microsoft Power BI on the show to talk about an exciting research project they developed to better understand dashboards.

Jessica Hullman and Matthew Kay join us to discuss the how and why of visualizing information uncertainty.

Here we go! Another year has passed and lots has happened in the data visualization world.

We have Andy Kirk on the show to talk about a new generation of data visualization tools.

131  |  Peak Spotting