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. Kirk lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Episode Notes

Kirk | Web [https://www.paintwithdata.com/] | Twitter [https://twitter.com/kirkmunroe] 

Book: Data Modeling with Tableau: A practical guide to building data models using Tableau Prep and Tableau Desktop [https://amzn.to/3IkOCLv]

Kirk Munroe: 4 Common Tableau Data Model Problems…and How to Fix Them [https://www.flerlagetwins.com/2023/01/data-.html]

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Episode #234: Kirk Munroe

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. Louis, Missouri and Internationally in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mae Rim, Thailand in Saint Louis, Senegal and Marrakech, Morocco. 

Ellie has worked with High schools students across the United States in creating public art that visualizes mathematics and her ideas have been adapted for use in elementary and high school mathematics curriculum. Her work developed with her teaching partner Tricia Stanley (Brooklyn) in Visualizing Mathematics has been published nationally and internationally through the Bridges Conference (Sweden) and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (Connecticut, Chicago, New Orleans). 

She loves when she can use data as a tool to bring people together.  Her visualization workshops have strengthened groups with the Kemper Museum (St. Louis), teams within Google (New York), KOC school (Istanbul, Turkey) and with the National Academy of Design (New York). 

Ellie holds a Bachelors of Fine Art from Bowling Green State University in Ohio and a Masters of Fine Art from Pratt Institute. 

Episode Notes

Ellie | Website [https://elliebalk.com/] | Instagram [http://www.instagram.com/elliebalk] | Twitter [https://twitter.com/elliebalk]

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Episode #232: Stefanie Posavec and Sonja Kuijpers [https://policyviz.com/podcast/episode-232-stefanie-posavec-and-sonja-kuijpers/]
Episode #187: Stefanie Posavec & Miriam Quick
Episode #2: Dear Data [https://policyviz.com/podcast/episode-187-stefanie-posavec-miriam-quick/]

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Episode #233: Ellie Balk

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. Besides her new book with Miriam, she has also co-authored two books that emphasise a more personal approach to data: Dear Data [https://amzn.to/3fWMxWv] and the journal Observe, Collect, Draw! [https://amzn.to/2HX6zDw]

Sonja Kuijpers runs STUDIO TERP, her one-woman data illustration studio based in Eindhoven, Netherlands. She designs (data-)visualisations for a diversity of clients such as Scientific American, Philips, as well as small institutions, companies, and publishers. Recently the Climate Book by Greta Thunberg was published, for which Sonja (re-)designed the graphs.

Experimenting with shapes and styles, she also designs her own independent dataviz and data art projects. She received an Information is Beautiful Gold Award in 2019 for her personal project ‘A View on despair’. Creating data visualisation, to Sonja, is trying to locate herself in the data, making sense of numbers with a human approach, showing insights as well as the aesthetics of information and data.


Episode Notes

Stefanie | Web [https://www.stefanieposavec.com/] | Twitter [https://twitter.com/stefpos]
Sonja | Web [https://www.studioterp.nl/about/] | Twitter [https://twitter.com/SonjaKuijpers] | IIB Award, A View on Despair [https://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/4313-a-view-on-despair]
Warming Stripes [https://showyourstripes.info/s/globe]
I am a book. I am a portal to the universe. [https://amzn.to/3wa55eO] by Stefanie Posavec and Miriam Quick
The Climate Book, by Greta Thurnberg | Amazon US [https://amzn.to/3kjBm06] | Amazon UK [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Climate-Book-Greta-Thunberg/dp/0241547474/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1673886689&refinements=p_lbr_books_authors_browse-bin%3AGreta+Thunberg&s=books&sr=1-1]

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Episode #187: Stefanie Posavec & Miriam Quick [https://policyviz.com/podcast/episode-187-stefanie-posavec-miriam-quick/]
Episode #2: Dear Data [https://policyviz.com/podcast/episode-187-stefanie-posavec-miriam-quick/]

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Episode #232: Stefanie Posavec and Sonja Kuijpers

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.

Lilach has served as a Tableau Zen master (2018-2019), Tableau Public featured author, and co-organizer of her local Tableau user group chapter. She has contributed as guest author to the Tableau blog and the Nightingale journal, writing about design and user experience in data visualization. She has also spoken on topics ranging from visual metaphor to dataviz critique at Tableau conferences and user groups across the U.S.

Lilach holds a Bachelor degree in Art History and a Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS).

Episode Notes

Lilach | Web [https://t.co/uNEaKyTeTL] | Twitter [https://twitter.com/lilachmanheim] | Tableau Public [https://t.co/J725HmW1G4]

Visa Chart Components [https://developer.visa.com/pages/chart-components]
Elevating Data Experiences framework [https://developer.visa.com/images2/visa-chart-components/Data%20Experience%20Critique%20Framework.pdf]
Chris DeMartini (Twitter) [https://twitter.com/demartsc?lang=en]
Frank Elavsky (Twitter) [https://twitter.com/FrankElavsky]
Data Visualization Society [https://www.datavisualizationsociety.org/]The Shape Parameter of a Two-Variable Graph [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2288843] (banking to 45 degrees paper from Cleveland, McGill, and McGill)

Related blog posts:

 * PolicyViz: A Better Path Toward Criticizing Data Visualization [https://policyviz.com/2023/02/01/a-better-path-toward-criticizing-data-visualization/]
 * PolicyViz: Should we give awards for data visualizations? [https://policyviz.com/2022/02/17/should-we-give-awards-for-data-visualizations/]
 * PolicyViz: Critiquing a Data Visualization Critique [https://policyviz.com/2020/07/19/critiquing-a-data-visualization-critique/]
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Books

 * Functional Aesthetics for Data Visualization [https://amzn.to/3GL5mty]
 * Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagrams and Visualizations [https://amzn.to/3GMV1gH]
 * Joyful Infographics: A Friendly, Human Approach to Data [https://amzn.to/3ITZmRG]
 * Data Visualisation: A Handbook for Data Driven Design [https://amzn.to/3CTzLEK]
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Episode #231: Lilach Manheim Laurio

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. Her personal research interests lie at the intersection of natural language processing and computer graphics to better understand data semantics and user intent to inform the meaningful visual depiction of data.

Interpreter turned analyst, Bridget Cogley brings an interdisciplinary approach to data analytics. As Chief Visualization Officer at Versalytix, her role uplifts data visualization within the org and helps shape the vision. Her dynamic, engaging presentation style is paired with thought-provoking content, including ethics and data visualization linguistics. She has a deep interest in the nuances of communication, having been an American Sign Language Interpreter for nine years. She is currently a Tableau Hall of Fame Visionary. Her work incorporates human-centric dashboard design, an anthropological take on design, ethics, and language. She extensively covers speech analytics and open text. Prior to consulting, Bridget managed an analytics department, which included vetting and selecting Tableau, creating views in the database, and building comprehensive reporting. She also has experience in training, HR, managing, and sales support.

Episode Notes

Functional Aesthetics for Data Visualization [https://amzn.to/3GJmu40]
Webinar about the book [https://carahevents.carahsoft.com/Event/Details/334103-Versalytix]

Vidya | Tableau Research [https://research.tableau.com/user/vidya-setlur] | Twitter [https://twitter.com/vsetlur]
Bridget | Tableaufit [https://www.tableaufit.com/] | Twitter [https://twitter.com/WindsCogley] | The Logic of Dashboards presentation (YouTube) [https://youtu.be/2KVIZh3KMSs]

Paper: Striking a Balance: Reader Takeaways and Preferences when Integrating Text and Charts [https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.01780] by Chase Stokes, Vidya Setlur, Bridget Cogley, Arvind Satyanarayan, and Marti Hearst

Versalytix [https://www.versalytix.com/]
Stroop Effect [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroop_effect]
Tableau User Groups [https://usergroups.tableau.com/]
VisComm [https://viscomm.io/]
Information is Beautiful Awards [https://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/]

Other recent books

 * Jen Christiansen, Building Science Graphics: An Illustrated Guide to Communicating Science through Diagrams and Visualizations [https://amzn.to/3GNTZCo]
 * Nigel Holmes, Joyful Infographics: A Friendly, Human Approach to Data [https://amzn.to/3jLxiW7]

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Episode #230: Vidya Setlur and Bridget Cogley

Edith Young is an artist, designer, and writer from New York. Princeton Architectural Press published her first book, Color Scheme: An Irreverent History of Art and Pop Culture Through Color Palettes [https://amzn.to/3Fwxilk], in 2021. 

This is the final podcast episode of 2022! I hope you have a wonderful, safe, and healthy holiday season. I look forward to good things coming in 2023!

Episode Notes

Edith’s work: www.edith.nyc [http://www.edith.nyc/]
Edith’s palette prints: www.edithyoung.com [http://www.edithyoung.com/] 
Book: Color Scheme: An Irreverent History of Art and Pop Culture Through Color Palettes [https://amzn.to/3Fwxilk]
PolicyViz blog post on color [https://policyviz.com/2022/12/20/color-palettes-from-edith-youngs-color-scheme/]

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Episode #229: Edith Young

Ethan Mollick is an Associate Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he studies and teaches innovation and entrepreneurship. He is also the author of The Unicorn’s Shadow: Combating the Dangerous Myths that Hold Back Startups, Founders, and Investors. His papers have been published in top management journals and have won multiple awards. His work on crowdfunding is the most cited article in management published in the last seven years.

Prior to his time in academia, Ethan co-founded a startup company, and he currently advises a number of startups and organizations. As the Academic Director and cofounder of Wharton Interactive, he works to transform entrepreneurship education using games and simulations. He has long had interest in using games for teaching, and he co-authored a book on the intersection between video games and business that was named one of the American Library Association’s top 10 business books of the year. He has built numerous teaching games, which are used by tens of thousands of students around the world.

Episode Notes

Ethan’s UPenn Website [https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick/]
Ethan’s Personal Website [http://www.startupinnovation.org/]
Ethan on Twitter [https://twitter.com/emollick]

Dall-E Tweet [https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1552361947336777728]
Google Drive folder with Ethan’s Dall-E images [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TW6tucmJJfhwA_DjYk0un1QKHj5hfvRa]
Wharton Interactive [https://interactive.wharton.upenn.edu/]
2022 Hugo Awards [https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2022-hugo-awards/]

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Episode #228: Ethan Mollick

Max Kuhn is a software engineer at RStudio. He is currently working on improving R’s modeling capabilities and maintains about 30 packages, including caret. He was a Senior Director of Nonclinical Statistics at Pfizer Global R&D in Connecticut. He was applying models in the pharmaceutical and diagnostic industries for over 18 years. Max has a Ph.D. in Biostatistics. He, and Kjell Johnson, wrote the book Applied Predictive Modeling, which won the Ziegel award from the American Statistical Association, which recognizes the best book reviewed in Technometrics in 2015. Their second book, Feature Engineering and Selection [https://amzn.to/3EpIdgf], was published in 2019 and his book with Julia Silge, Tidy Models with R [https://amzn.to/3A7ivdN], was published in 2022.

Episode Notes

Website at RStudio: https://www.rstudio.com/authors/max-kuhn/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/topepos
Github: https://github.com/topepo 

R Packages:
autoML [https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/automl/index.html]
caret [https://topepo.github.io/caret/]
Quarto [https://quarto.org/docs/computations/r.html]
RMarkdown [https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/]
tidymodels [https://www.tidymodels.org/]
tidyverse [https://www.tidyverse.org/]

Books from Max:
Tidy Modeling with R: A Framework for Modeling in the Tidyverse [https://amzn.to/3A7ivdN]
Applied Predictive Modeling [https://amzn.to/3EyKoOJ]
Feature Engineering and Selection [https://amzn.to/3EpIdgf]

R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data [https://amzn.to/3TtNoQu] by Garrett Grolemund and Hadley Wickham

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Episode #227: Max Kuhn

Abby Covert is an information architect, writer and community organizer with two decades of experience helping people make sense of messes. In addition to being an active mentor to those new to sensemaking, she has also served the design community as President of the Information Architecture Institute, co-chair of Information Architecture Summit, and Executive Producer of the I.D.E.A Conference. 

Abby is a founding faculty member of School of Visual Arts’ Products of Design graduate program. She also managed the team that helped Rosenfeld Media to start both the Design Operations Summit and Advancing Research Conference. Her most proud achievement is having come up with the idea for World Information Architecture Day, bringing accessibly priced education to thousands in their local communities annually. 

In addition to running events, you may have seen her presenting her work on stage at: Blend, Business to Buttons, Confab, Creative Mornings, Designing for Digital, EdUI, EMACTL, EuroIA, Generate, GIANT, IA Summit, IA Conference, Italian IA Conference, Interactions, Midwest UX, Mind the Product, Momentum, Plain Language Summit, SearchLOVE, STC Summit, TalkUX, UI21, UI22, UX Cambridge, UX Ottawa, UX Lisbon, UX Tokyo, UX Week, Webstock, Wharton Web Conference, World IA Day 

Abby has written two books for her students. In 2014 she published How to Make Sense of Any Mess, a book to teach IA to everybody. In 2022, she released her much anticipated follow-up, Stuck? Diagrams Help. She currently spends her time making things that help you to make the unclear, clear, many of which she makes available for free on her website abbycovert.com [http://abbycovert.com/] or at accessible price points in her popular Etsy shop AbbytheIA.

Abby lives and writes from Melbourne, Florida where her most important job title is ‘Mom’.

Episode Notes

Products & Guides for Sensemakers
[http://www.etsy.com/shop/abbytheia]How to Make Sense of Any Mess
[http://www.abbycovert.com/make-sense]STUCK? Diagrams Help
[http://www.abbycovert.com/stuck]My Monthly Email List [http://abbycovert.com/]

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Episode #226: Abby Covert

Julia Silge is a data scientist and software engineer at RStudio PBC where she works on open source modeling tools. She is an author, an international keynote speaker, and a real-world practitioner focusing on data analysis and machine learning. Julia loves text analysis, making beautiful charts, and communicating about technical topics with diverse audiences.x

Episode Notes

https://juliasilge.com/
https://www.tidymodels.org/
https://www.tmwr.org/
https://smltar.com/
https://vetiver.rstudio.com/

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