Podcasts about information graphics

The field of data visualization and information mapping has historical roots that date back far earlier than most people would imagine. Micronesian explorers created navigation charts with sticks and shells for thousands of years before the introduction of electronic navigation technology. Hundreds of years ago, humans had the means to mechanically collect data on everything from the pulse of ocean tides to the pulse of a living heartbeat. Data storyteller RJ Andrews is on a mission to showcase the work of the visionaries who carved the path for those of us working in the field of cartography and information design, and through his latest book series, “Information Graphic Visionaries” he has accomplished this mission with astounding success. RJ Andrews & The History of Information Graphics

Giving good feedback to others—when done well—can help you sharpen your own thinking and approaches for visualizing and communicating with data. We'll start with this critical topic in our new 10-week course, so it seemed like the perfect timing to repost the original episode of the storytelling with data podcast. I discuss the value of giving and receiving data visualization feedback and potential problem areas to avoid. Hear The Economist's eloquent response to critique of one of their graphs, plus answers to reader questions on when to use graphs, considerations with dashboards, and data viz book recommendations (updated with some recent publications!). MENTIONED LINKS: 10-week course & upcoming workshops: storytellingwithdata.com/workshops Feedback? email feedback@storytellingwithdata.com Blog post: SWD makeover challenge on The Economist's hurricane graph Article: “Design & Redesign in Data Visualization” by Fernanda Viegas & Martin Wattenberg Blog post: my guiding principles Article: The subtle art that differentiates good designers from great designers by UX Planet Blog post: a tale about opportunity Book: The Big Book of Dashboards by Steve Wexler, Jeff Shaffer & Andy Cotgreave Book: storytelling with data by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic Book: WSJ Guide to Information Graphics by Dona Wong Book: Show Me the Numbers by Stephen Few Book: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte Book: Avoiding Data Pitfalls by Ben Jones Book: Better Data Visualizations by Jonathan Schwabish Book: Let's Practice! by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic Resource: SWD community Questions? email askcole@storytellingwithdata.com or start a conversation in SWD community

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo is the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the University of Miami. He's also director of the visualization program at UM's Center for Computational Science. He's the author of The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization and The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication . He also writes regularly about visualization in his personal blog . He has been director of visualization at news publications in Spain (El Mundo) and Brazil (Globo magazines,) and he's currently a consultant for companies such as Google and Microsoft. Cairo also organizes two annual conferences, the Digital Humanities + Data Journalism Symposium , and VizUM.

Alberto Cairo @albertocairo is the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the University of Miami. He's also director of the visualization program at UM's Center for Computational Science. He's the author of The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization and The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication . He also writes regularly about visualization in his personal blog . He has been director of visualization at news publications in Spain (El Mundo) and Brazil (Globo magazines,) and he's currently a consultant for companies such as Google and Microsoft. Cairo also organizes two annual conferences, the Digital Humanities + Data Journalism Symposium , and VizUM.

D.C. Entrepreneur interviews Nathaniel Pearlman of Graphicacy. Nathaniel founded NGP Software, Inc. (now NGP VAN, Inc.) to join his interests in politics and technology and served as the CTO for the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2007-08. On this episode, he speaks about entrepreneurship, how he first became interested in visual information graphics, and his volunteer work with the Lever Fund. Link to books mentioned on show: tinyurl.com/zaj6plgSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/georgeindc)

We tackle data visualization in its full technicolor glory! Kenneth, Kevin & Len are joined by Jeff Fletcher from IS Research & Innovation to talk about data visualization. Jeff has been working in the internet business for quite some time, from JINX to Telkom, Antfarm to IS, UUNet to 365 and finally back to R&I at Internet Solutions. We met Jeff a few years ago at Jozi.rb where he gave a D3 talk that blew everyone away. Since then Jeff has studied the art of successful data visualization and shares with us all the intricacies of generating effective graphics to communicate complex ideas. We got a history lesson on the origins of data visualization, starting with cartography and Florence Nightingale! We learn how visualization helped stop a cholera outbreak too! Jeff freely shared his knowledge and resources with us and we hope you can use all this to improve your own visualizations. Follow Jeff online: - https://twitter.com/fletch_jeff - http://limn.co.za Here are some resources mentioned during the show: * D3 at Jozi.rb - http://www.meetup.com/joziruby/events/180219732/ * Hype Cycle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle * D3.js - https://d3js.org/ * Tableau - http://www.tableau.com/ * QlikView - http://www.qlik.com/products/qlikview * Highcharts - http://www.highcharts.com/ * Cartography - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartography * Nightingales's Graph - http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1712.htm * John Snow's Cholera Map - http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/mar/15/john-snow-cholera-map * Edward Tufte - http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/ * Ben Fry - http://benfry.com/ * Mike Bostock - https://bost.ocks.org/mike/ * Protoviz (predecessor to D3) - http://mbostock.github.io/protovis/ * Three.js - http://threejs.org/ * C3.js - http://c3js.org/ * Stephen Few - https://www.perceptualedge.com/ * Stephen Few's Show Me The Numbers - http://bit.ly/1N7e3zq * WTF Visualizations - http://viz.wtf/ * Data-Ink Ratio - http://www.infovis-wiki.net/index.php/Data-Ink_Ratio * iPhone Pie Chart trick - http://www.wired.com/2008/02/macworlds-iphon/ * ColorBrewer 2.0 by Cynthia Brewer - http://colorbrewer2.org/ * ColorBrewer with D3 - https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/5577023 * Gestalt Principle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_psychology * RStudio - https://www.rstudio.com/ * Wazimap - http://wazimap.co.za/ * Data Visualization and Communication with Tableau - https://www.coursera.org/learn/analytics-tableau * CS171 Visualization (Harvard) - http://www.cs171.org/2016/index.html * Dana Wong - http://donawong.com/ * Dana Wong's Wall Street Guide to Information Graphics - http://bit.ly/1oVndUa * Information is Beautiful - http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/ * Dear Data - http://www.dear-data.com/all * Visualize This - http://book.flowingdata.com/ And finally our picks Kevin: - Episode 26 - Open Data and Civic Hacking with Jason Norwood-Young - http://bit.ly/1T2km6w Kenneth: * Information is Beautiful - http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/ * Minard's visualization of Napoleon's March - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Minard * Among the Oscar Contenders, a Host of Connections - http://nyti.ms/1N7dVzP Len: - Johannesburg Clojure Meetup - http://www.meetup.com/Johannesburg-Clojure-Meetup/events/230015106/ Jeff: - The Visual Display of Quantitative Information - http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi - OECD Better Life Index - http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/ - Real time global wind map - http://earth.nullschool.net/ Thanks for listening! Stay in touch: * Socialize - https://twitter.com/zadevchat & http://facebook.com/ZADevChat/ * Suggestions and feedback - https://github.com/zadevchat/ping * Subscribe and rate in iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/za/podcast/zadevchat-podcast/id1057372777

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