The PolicyViz Podcast

Micah is a mathematician who likes to use pictures to understand things. He runs a website, hockeyviz.com [http://hockeyviz.com/], where he stores pictures about hockey. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia with his wife and his two children. Episode Notes Micah | Twitter [https://twitter.com/IneffectiveMath] | Site [https://hockeyviz.com/] Bubble physics [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_(physics)] Python [https://www.python.org/] Beautiful Soup [https://pypi...

Jeremy is the author of American Inequality, a biweekly newsletter that uses data visualization to highlight U.S. inequality topics and to drive change in communities. His work has been published in TIME, Bloomberg, and the LA Times. He was a dual-degree masters student at MIT Sloan and the Harvard Kennedy School and was formerly a macro policy strategist at the Federal Reserve. He now works at Google and lives in Brooklyn. Episode Notes Jeremy on Twitter [https://twitter...

Tristan is a Data Visualization Freelancer [http://www.ladataviz.com/] who likes to combine different techniques to find the best way to represent data. He regularly creates tools [https://tools.ladataviz.com/] and videos [http://www.youtube.com/@ladataviz] to help people build their next projects or level up their skills. Tristan is the 2017 Iron Viz Champion, and current Tableau Visionary. Episode Notes Tristan | Web [http://www.ladataviz.com/] | Twitter [https://tools.ladataviz...

Gabrielle Ione Hickmon (b. 1994) is a Black woman from a middle place—Ypsilanti, MI. Her lab is a place where clay and words meet. She is interested in body memory, waiting rooms, layovers, circles, Black imaginaries, and ocular proof.  Her work includes essays, ethnographic research, and coil-built ceramics...

Jen Christiansen is the author of Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagrams and Visualizations [https://amzn.to/3zcu5mV] (CRC Press) and senior graphics editor at Scientific American, where she art directs and produces illustrated explanatory diagrams and data visualizations. Episode Notes Jen | Web [https://www.jenchristiansen.com/] | Book [https://amzn.to/3zcu5mV] | Book site [https://www.buildingsciencegraphics...

Kirk Munroe is a business analytics and performance management expert. He has held leadership roles in product management, marketing, sales enablement, and customer success in analytics software companies including, Cognos, IBM, Kinaxis, Tableau, and Salesforce. Kirk has a passion for coaching and mentoring people to make better decisions through storytelling with data. He is currently one of the two owners and principal consultants at Paint with Data, a visual analytics consulting firm...

Ellie Balk is an artist obsessed with color, pattern, data and mathematics. She creates large scale data visualization public artworks using paint, glass, sound and most recently ceramics. Community engagement and interaction is at the core of her work.  Ellie lives in Brooklyn, while working internationally.  Her public artwork can be experienced across the United State, extensively throughout New York City and St...

Stefanie Posavec is a designer, artist, and author whose practice focuses on finding new, experimental approaches to communicating data and information. This work has been exhibited internationally at major galleries including the V&A, the Design Museum, Somerset House, and the Wellcome Collection (London), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), and MoMA (New York). Her work is also in the permanent collection of MoMA...

Lilach Manheim Laurio leads the Data Experience Center of Excellence at Visa, where she helps data practitioners across the company to elevate the quality of their data products, and improve their skills in data visualization and data experience design. Lilach's data visualization work blends together a background in art history, library science, and human-centered information design, along with a passion for visual metaphor and pun...

Vidya Setlur is the director of Tableau Research. She leads an interdisciplinary team of research scientists in areas including data visualization, multimodal interaction, statistics, applied ML, and NLP. She earned her doctorate in Computer Graphics in 2005 at Northwestern University. Prior to joining Tableau, she worked as a principal research scientist at the Nokia Research Center for seven years...