A podcast on data and how it affects our lives — with Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner
Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner discuss the latest developments in data analytics, visualization and related topics.We have Prof. Tamara Munzner from University of British Columbia with us in this episode. Tamara is one of the most prominent figures in visualization research. She has done tons of interesting work starting from the nineties (look into her publications page) including the famous "Nested Model of Visualization Design" and her numerous design studies work, like the excellent "Overview," a tool for journalistic investigative analysis. We also talk about her new book "Visualization Analysis and Design." Finally a textbook teaching how to create visualization tools for analysis purposes!
Erschienen: 22.12.2014
Dauer: 01:18:15
It took us a while, but — here we go! A three part episode from IEEE VIS 2014. Thanks again to Robert Kosara for coming on our show again to talk shop, and look back on a week full of really interesting scientific findings about data visualization.
Erschienen: 18.12.2014
Dauer: 01:12:23
Hi all, we have the great Santiago Ortiz with us again in this episode. Santiago builds interactive data visualizations to "get deep insight from data, solve real problems and answer strategic questions." If you are an avid DS follower you may recall that we had him on the show in episode 19. In this episode he comes back to talk with us about visualization and data science, how he strives to create value out of his data visualization projects and how he is *not* interested data visualization! Enjoy the show!
Erschienen: 14.11.2014
Dauer: 01:11:46
Hi Folks! In this episode we have Lisa Strausfeld from Bloomberg with us. Lisa started doing VIS very early on. In the episode she tells us about her super interesting story of how she got into VIS and all the jobs she has had: starting as a student of Art and Computer Science (yes, Art and CS!), designing chips for Motorola, and now these days working at Bloomberg Visual Data and Bloomberg View.
Erschienen: 18.10.2014
Dauer: 01:07:44
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We have a very researchy kind of episode this time. Jessica Hullman is on the show to talk about her research on narrative visualization. Jessica is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Berkeley and soon to be Assistant Professor at University of Washington iSchool. In the show we talk about lots of interesting basic visualization research issues like visualization literacy, bias and saliency, uncertainty, and some interesting automated annotation systems that Jessica has developed. We also talk about Jessica's background in experimental poetry!
Erschienen: 19.09.2014
Dauer: 01:02:23
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Hi there! We have been chasing Paolo for a while and eventually we managed to have him on the show. Paolo is Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano and he is the founder of Density Design, a lab with an interesting mix of research, design and visualization. With Paolo we talk about all things at the intersection of design and visualization, including a very interesting digression on architecture and how it helped him in the development of the lab. We also talk about how to teach design and the role of Visualization in the Humanities. We also talk about Raw, an online visualization tool they developed which has recently gained quite some popularity (if you don't know it you should try it). Enjoy the show! --- Links Cyber-Geography Maps (early inspiration) Density Design Flicker Stream Density Design Blog 99 Models of Design Processes Mapping the Republic of Letters (and this: http://athanasius.stanford.edu/) Franco Moretti's Distant Readings and Giorgio Caviglia (and the “incorporation” of design into humanities) Fineo (Sankey Diagrams Tool)
Erschienen: 06.08.2014
Dauer: 01:21:45
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Hi all, Finally, after chasing him for a long while we have Manuel Lima on the show! Manuel has been around for a very long time. He created Visual Complexity in 2005, an archive of network visualizations which became very popular. He is also the author of two great books: Visual Complexity and The Book of Trees. In the show we talk about archiving visualizations, how to write and publish visualization books and how the whole field had developed and where it is heading. Great great show! Take care. Links Manuel’s master thesis at Parson’s: BlogViz Visual Complexity (Book) Visual Complexity (Website) The Book of Trees Information Visualization Manifesto (check the comments section!) Manuel’s Current Employer: Code Academy Infosthetics Blog Barabasi’s Linked: http://barabasilab.com/LinkedBook/ Johnson’s Emergence Visual Simplexity (Book) The Allosphere Display
Erschienen: 02.07.2014
Dauer: 01:08:58
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That's a particularly tough but juicy episode folks! We turn a little bit inward and talk about the many challenges of teaching visualization. We have code artist Scott Murray on the show, the author of the lovely D3 book "Interactive Data Visualization for the Web" and our almost-cohost ever-present Andy Kirk with us from visualisingdata.com. Scott teaches visualization courses at Department of Art and Architecture University of San Francisco and Andy teaches some very popular 1-day workshop courses all around the world. We talk about our experience with teaching visualization, reporting about what seems to work and what does not. I think we mostly report about our constant struggle to make things work :) Hopefully this is going to be of help and fun for you guys! And once again, thanks to our audio editor Nathan Griffiths (twitter.com/njgriffiths) for taking care of this episode! Links Santiago Ortiz's: 45 ways to communicate two quantities John Swabisch's HelpMeViz (to teach by good/bad examples) Scott's Easy as Pi
Erschienen: 25.06.2014
Dauer: 01:11:06
Hey yo ... super cool guest today on Data Stories. We have data artist Jer Thorp for a whole episode on Data Art and Visualization. We managed to catch him before he leaves for a deep dive in a submarine next week. Jer is former artist in residence at New York Times R&D Labs and now he is the co-founder of the Office For Creative Research, a studio/lab that mixes science and art. Among many other things he is the creator of the algorithm and software tool "to aid in the placement of the nearly 3,000 names on the 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan" and Cascade, a tool to visualize "the sharing activity of New York Times content over social networks." In this episode we talk about his past and new projects, teaching art and vis and the many intersections between art and science. Links - The IEEE VIS'14 Art Program (that's going to be in Paris) - NYU ITP Data Art Course - Cascade (vis of NYT sharing activity) - Shakespeare Machine (earstudio | video on vimeo) - Jer's HBR article on "Visualization as Process, Not Output" - Collection of vis development process images from OCR - Example of Data Performance: Thousands of Exhausted Things (OCResearch and The Elevator Repair Service) - Hans Rosling's TED Talk "The Best Stats You've Ever Seen" - Eyeo Festival
Erschienen: 23.05.2014
Dauer: 01:17:23
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Hi all, Hot topic today! We invited Alberto Cairo and Robert Kosara to discuss the role of storytelling in visualization. What is storytelling? Is all visualization storytelling? Should we always strive for telling a story? How does storytelling match with exploratory visualization? Should we aim more for worlds and macroscopes than stories as Moritz advocated a while back at Visualized? We went on a somewhat lengthy discussion on these topics and I think we all ended up agreeing on a lot of things and developed a much more nuanced view of storytelling. As you can see from the picture we had lots of fun (thanks Robert for taking the screenshot). Fantastic chat! Note: Alberto has a lot more to say after the episode so he decided to publish a linked post that clarifies some of the things he said on the show. You find the post here: ... P.S. Big, big thanks to Fabricio Tavares for taking care of the audio editing of this episode! --- Links Lynn Chen on Implied Stories (and Data Vis) Periscopic's Dino Citraro on A Framework for Talking About Data Narration Book cited by Alberto: The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science Great visualizations without stories (proposed by Moritz): Aron Koblin's Flight Patterns Martin Wattenberg's Map of the Market Moritz position on stories: Look ma, no story! | Worlds, not stories Enrico's position on stories: Telling a story doesn’t tell the whole story Robert series on storytelling: Stories Are Gateways Into Worlds | Story: A Definition Robert's mention of visualization on Copenhagen: Emissions, Treaties and Impacts Jessica Hallman's VIS'13 paper on: Deeper Understanding of Sequence in Visualization
Erschienen: 16.04.2014
Dauer: 01:18:23
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