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.[Thanks to our audio editor Nathan Griffiths (https://twitter.com/njgriffiths) for taking care of this episode] Hi everyone! After a long while ... we have a real British voice on the show again! In this episode we have the pleasure to host data journalist Simon Rogers. Simon has been leading data journalism initiatives at The Guardian for many years and he recently moved to Twitter (with the official role of Data Editor) where he takes care of creating visual stories out of Twitter data. In the show we talk about his past experience at The Guardian as well as the more recent and exciting developments at Twitter. Links The debate of Gregor & Moritz with Simon on colors (and Simon pissed off by it :)) Creative tools: CartoDB and DataWrapper? Twitter Data Blog (where new projects are announced) Overview page of Twitter visualizations Simon's post: Data Journalism as Punk [very interesting concept!] Simon's infographics kid books: Animal Kingdom and Human Body
Erschienen: 24.03.2014
Dauer: 00:48:48
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Hi Everyone! We have Jon Schwabish on the show in this episode. Jon is an economist who specializes in data visualization for politics and economics. You can see some of his work in the blog he writes called Policyviz. We invited him to talk about his recent new initiative called HelpMeViz, a web site where people can send requests to visualize some data of interest or redesign some particularly tricky charts. The web site quickly gained some momentum and already publishes quite a nice set of charts, suggested redesigns, and most of all very insightful discussions (it's not just the usual I like this, I like that). There is a lot to learn there. In the interview we talk about how HelpMeViz was born, how it works, what kind of entries they have been published so far and how it's going to evolve. Give a look to HelpMeViz and submit your own charts and data there! Links How HelpMeViz works ... Jon's "An Economist's Guide to Visualizing Data" (full of very nice examples of chart redesign) Interesting discussions from HelpMeViz: Budget Pie Chart Triplet State Migration Flows Debate About Colors --- And here's another piece of great news: For the first time, this episode was audio edited and annotated by a volunteer helper - woo! Fabricio Tavares was kind to help us. Thanks a million! The equation is simple: less audio editing work for Moritz means more episodes we can do in a year. Get in touch in case you would like help us, too!
Erschienen: 03.03.2014
Dauer: 01:01:43
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We have Giorgia Lupi from Accurat on the show with us this time in our first real face-to-face episode ever -- yes Moritz and Enrico in the same room! Giorgia's work, and generally the work done by her agency, has been super popular lately. You might have seen, for instance, their work visualizing Nobel Prizes or visualizing painters' lives. Giorgia kindly hosted us in the Accurat's studio in New York where we had a nice chat on hand-crafted visualization, high-density designs, design studios, and much much more.
Erschienen: 18.02.2014
Dauer: 00:57:57
Weitere Informationen zur Episode "32 | High Density Infographics and Data Drawing w/ Giorgia Lupi"
Happy 2014! Here we go folks. Another year has passed. We review what was big and major trends in 2013 and what to expect in 2014. We have two old DS friends on the show to help us with the review: Andy "Visualisingdata" Kirk and Robert "Eagereyes" Kosara. Important announcement: in 2014 we want to hear more from you! Please feel free to contact us to ask questions, we will address them in our upcoming podcasts. You can also suggest new guests or topics you would like us to cover. You can reach us through: Twitter (@datastories) | Facebook | Email: mail@datastori.es. We are looking forward to hearing from you! Take care. --- Links Periscopic's U.S. Gun Deaths Pitch Interactive's Drones NYT's Silkroad and Snawfall Wealth Inequality Video Interactive Things' NZZ Swiss Maps Sketchy Rendering for InfoVis Age of Buildings (pointillistic cartography) Nanocubes: Fast Visualization of Large Spatiotemporal Datasets Washington Post's Shots heard around the District Density Design's Raw Visualization Tool New Blogs: http://wtfviz.net/ | http://helpmeviz.com/ | http://thumbsupviz.com/ Book: Design for Information (Robert's Review) Nate Silver's Five Thirty Eight and the Vis Job Opening Tableau Story Points Infoactive - Kickstarter Vis Tool Project
Erschienen: 24.01.2014
Dauer: 01:19:28
Weitere Informationen zur Episode "31 | Review, preview w/ Robert Kosara and Andy Kirk"
We have Marian Dörk on the show today to talk about the "Information Flaneur": an approach to data visualization centered on navigating, exploring, browsing and observing data with curiosity to learn about what's there, and to see and be surprised by new thoughts and discoveries. Marian is Research Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam near Berlin where he works on "exploring novel uses of interactive visualizations to support a wide range of information practices." We talk about many interesting new directions for visualization like visualizing data starting from a few seed points, whether we always need an overview first in visualization, and tips on how to design visualization for "information flaneurs."
Erschienen: 10.12.2013
Dauer: 01:02:52
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We have a super guest this time on the show! Ben Shneiderman joins us to talk about his new treemap art project (beautiful treemap prints you can hang on the wall), treemaps and their history, and information visualization in general. Needless to say, we had a wonderful time chatting with him: lots of history and very inspiring thoughts (tip: we should look at vis 50-100 years from now!)
Erschienen: 15.11.2013
Dauer: 01:04:05
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Hi Folks! We did it again: we have a special episode directly from IEEE VIS'13 (the premier academic conference on visualization). Enrico caught Robert Kosara and recorded almost one hour of highlights from the conference. And there is a final message for Moritz too! Don't miss it. Take care. -- Links (some of the papers mentioned): Chart Memorability Sketchy Story (freeform data visualization) Understanding Sequence in Narrative Visualization Nanocubes (large-scale visualization on the web) Visual Sedimentation (handling dynamic/streaming data) Robert's Conference Report on Eagereyes IEEE (VisWeek) VIS Papers on the Web (collection of papers accessible on the web)
Erschienen: 28.10.2013
Dauer: 00:49:13
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Here we go with another great episode. This time more on the data side. We have Kate Crawford, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, on the show talking about the other face of big data. That is, after all the excitement, hype, and buzz, she is the one who is asking the tough questions: Is more data always better? Is there any objective truth in it? Is big data really making us smarter?
Erschienen: 17.10.2013
Dauer: 01:05:13
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We are back after a relaxing summer with a brand new episode! We have Petra Isenberg, from the Aviz team at INRIA (we've had other guests from the same lab in the past) to talk about visualization on non-standard devices and environments. Yes, stuff like display walls, surfaces, tabletops, and people collaborating around them. It feels like the future is here and there's a ton of potentially interesting applications for visualization! Petra gives us hints about what works and what does not work, what the research says, what has been tried already, and what needs to be explored, etc. She also gives practical recommendations at the end about how to start doing visualization on these devices. Really cool stuff!
Erschienen: 09.09.2013
Dauer: 00:58:49
Weitere Informationen zur Episode "26 | Visualization Beyond the Desktop w/ Petra Isenberg"
In this episode we talk about visualization on mobile and touch devices. How do you design visualization interfaces for these kinds of devices? How different is it to interact with your fingertips rather than with your mouse? Advantages, disadvantages, unexplored opportunities? We discuss with Dominukus Baur, interaction designer and mobile data visualization specialist.
Erschienen: 12.07.2013
Dauer: 01:04:40
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