Podcasts about interactive data visualization

Jesse Thomas is the founder of award-winning JESS3, a creative agency that specializes in data visualization. He's worked with Fortune 500 giants, media empires, and start-up power-houses with their expertise at telling good stories through visualizing data. Jesse tells me where he gets fresh ideas and shares use cases for marketing your company using interactive data. Find this episode insightful? Subscribe, rate, and share this podcast so we can produce more. Follow Adam @adamhelweh or visit www.secretsushi.com. | Music by mogillaguerrilla@gmail.com IG: @mogilla_guerrilla_beatz --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/marketingintheraw/message

Jason Forrest, Director of Interactive Data Visualization, McKinsey and Co, New York, gives the Department of Statistics Black History Month lecture, with a talk on the work of African-American scholar and activist W.E.B. Du Bois. At the 1900 Paris Exposition, an all African-American team lead by scholar and activist W.E.B. Du Bois sought to challenge and recontextualize the perception of African-Americans at the dawn of the 20th-century. In less than 5 months, his team conducted sociological research and hand-made more than 60 large data visualization posters for a massive European audience which ultimately awarded Du Bois a gold medal for his efforts. While relatively obscure until recently, the ramification of his landmark work remains challenging and especially important in light of the Black Lives Matter movement. Jason Forrest is a data visualization specialist, writer, and designer living in New York City. He is the director of interactive data visualization for McKinsey and Company's COVID Response Center. In addition to being on the board of directors of the Data Visualization Society, he is also the editor-in-chief of Nightingale: the journal of the Data Visualization Society. He writes about the intersection of culture and information design and is currently working on a book about Otto Neurath's Isotype methodology. In addition to this, Forrest is an electronic musician who has performed around the world including Glastonbury and Primavera Festivals

Jason Forrest, Director of Interactive Data Visualization, COVID Response Centre, McKinsey and Co, New York, gives the Department of Statistics Black History Month lecture, with a talk on the work of African-American scholar and activist W.E.B. Du Bois. At the 1900 Paris Exposition, an all African-American team lead by scholar and activist W.E.B. Du Bois sought to challenge and recontextualize the perception of African-Americans at the dawn of the 20th-century. In less than 5 months, his team conducted sociological research and hand-made more than 60 large data visualization posters for a massive European audience which ultimately awarded Du Bois a gold medal for his efforts. While relatively obscure until recently, the ramification of his landmark work remains challenging and especially important in light of the Black Lives Matter movement. Jason Forrest is a data visualization specialist, writer, and designer living in New York City. He is the director of interactive data visualization for McKinsey and Company's COVID Response Center. In addition to being on the board of directors of the Data Visualization Society, he is also the editor-in-chief of Nightingale: the journal of the Data Visualization Society. He writes about the intersection of culture and information design and is currently working on a book about Otto Neurath's Isotype methodology. In addition to this, Forrest is an electronic musician who has performed around the world including Glastonbury and Primavera Festivals

In this webinar originally broadcast live in partnership with RStudio Community, Nick Strayer (http://nickstrayer.me) joins Eric and Curtis to share the awesome possibilities when combining the power of javascript with Shiny! Nick shares the origins of his amazing {shinysense} (http://nickstrayer.me/shinysense) package for linking many mobile device interactions with Shiny, and we go hands-on with practical demonstrations of leveraging {r2d3} (https://rstudio.github.io/r2d3) to quickly prototype D3 javascript visualizations directly in R. If you would like to continue the discussion please visit the dedicated thread (https://community.rstudio.com/t/follow-up-thread-for-webinar-shinysense-and-custom-javascript-visualizations/39767) at the RStudio Community! (https://community.rstudio.com). Resources mentioned in the episode Video version of recording available at shinydevseries.com/ep5 (https://shinydevseries.com/ep5) Follow-up thread (https://community.rstudio.com/t/follow-up-thread-for-webinar-shinysense-and-custom-javascript-visualizations/39767) for the episode on RStudio Community Nick's interactive javascript notebooks: observablehq.com/@nstrayer (https://observablehq.com/@nstrayer) {shinysense} - Help Shiny sense the world around it: nickstrayer.me/shinysense (http://nickstrayer.me/shinysense/index.html) {r2d3} - R interface to D3 visualizations: rstudio.github.io/r2d3 (https://rstudio.github.io/r2d3) Interactive Data Visualization for the Web (2nd edition): shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920026938.do (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920026938.do)

ScriptCast No. 3 is here! Sebastian and I met Nadieh Bremer during our trip to Beyond Tellerrand in Düsseldorf. We took Nadieh out for sushi and had a chat about her life, work, and career in data visualisation. So join us and listen how Nadieh started out as an astronomer and became a JavaScript-savvy data-viz-ard. Also, find out how Dragonball Z can be used for interactive and engaging visualizations, and why the hexagon is the best shape of them all (https://scriptconf.org approves). With Nadieh being a remarkable source of knowledge, she provides us with tons of books and resources for you to start your own journey: - Nadieh's personal web site: http://www.visualcinnamon.com - Nadieh and Shirley's http://www.datasketch.es/ - Nadieh on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nadiehbremer - Nadieh's wonderful vizualisations on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nadiehbremer/ - Nadieh's D3 bl.ocks: https://bl.ocks.org/nbremer - Mike Bostock's D3 bl.ocks: https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock - A search for all the D3 bl.ocks: http://blockbuilder.org/search - "Interactive Data Visualization for the Web" - a free eBook: http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000345/index.html - "The functional art", a book on dataviz: http://www.thefunctionalart.com/p/about-book.html Again, thanks go out to Sebastian (twitter.com/sebgie) and Tom (twitter.com/Haroldchen) for joining me and to the magnificent Schepp (twitter.com/derSchepp )for providing his awesome recording equipment. Have fun!

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Scott Murray on creative coding, data visualization, and STEAM.This week, O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chats with designer, creative coder, and artist Scott Murray about coding and computation in design, his book Interactive Data Visualization for the Web and his new book coming out soon Creative Coding and Data Visualization with p5.js.Here are some highlights from their chat: Design, code, and computation I use to call myself a code artist but I really struggled with that title, and I think other people in my position feel similarly—those who are doing data visualization, or generative art, computationally based art or design work. I was kind of uncomfortable with the word art. I don't show work in galleries, I don't participate in the traditional art economy, so maybe I'm not an artist but more of a designer. I get excited about design as a problem-solving process. I'm totally a process geek; I get excited about design systems and consistency, so thinking about rules, and values, and data flowing through those rules and how they get expressed. I think, for me, working with code and computation is really kind of a natural fit. Creative coding approach to programming I differentiate between what I call coding or creative coding and programming. We're calling this course "Programming for Designers," but it is not going to be a computer science-y approach to programming. This is going to be a creative coding approach to programming, which is to say that the philosophy I'm bringing to this is, 'You figure out how to communicate to the computer to get it to do what you want'—that's pretty different from, 'You figure out the most efficient way of solving a particular problem.' P5.js We're going to use this new tool called P5 or P5.js. P5 is this open source, free programming language. You can download it from processing.org; it's based on Java. ... The reason why is it's a tool intended for beginners, and intended for artists and designers. A lot of the language it uses is language that designers are already familiar with. If you're trying to draw a shape you set the 'fill,' and you set the 'stroke,' and you set the 'stroke weight'; you can have red, green, blue values; hue saturation and brightness values, you can have alpha transparency values. It's language that you're already familiar with in terms of thinking of visual properties. Design and visualization Visualization is a natural fit for designers because it's leveraging all the visual communication skills, all the problem solving skills that we've already practiced. It's just in a more specific domain. The STEAM evolution My sense [of the state of design education] within my own little niche is that things are improving, and they're improving in an exciting way. That's in the sense that we have this whole STEM discussion: sciences, technology, engineering, math. That's really valuable, but that's evolved into a STEAM discussion, where we inset A for art in the middle. The art also represents design in this case, so creative coding fits into that. Getting students not necessarily even into computer science, but getting exposure to these coding skills earlier—that's really exciting.

The O'Reilly Radar Podcast: Scott Murray on creative coding, data visualization, and STEAM.This week, O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chats with designer, creative coder, and artist Scott Murray about coding and computation in design, his book Interactive Data Visualization for the Web and his new book coming out soon Creative Coding and Data Visualization with p5.js.Here are some highlights from their chat: Design, code, and computation I use to call myself a code artist but I really struggled with that title, and I think other people in my position feel similarly—those who are doing data visualization, or generative art, computationally based art or design work. I was kind of uncomfortable with the word art. I don't show work in galleries, I don't participate in the traditional art economy, so maybe I'm not an artist but more of a designer. I get excited about design as a problem-solving process. I'm totally a process geek; I get excited about design systems and consistency, so thinking about rules, and values, and data flowing through those rules and how they get expressed. I think, for me, working with code and computation is really kind of a natural fit. Creative coding approach to programming I differentiate between what I call coding or creative coding and programming. We're calling this course "Programming for Designers," but it is not going to be a computer science-y approach to programming. This is going to be a creative coding approach to programming, which is to say that the philosophy I'm bringing to this is, 'You figure out how to communicate to the computer to get it to do what you want'—that's pretty different from, 'You figure out the most efficient way of solving a particular problem.' P5.js We're going to use this new tool called P5 or P5.js. P5 is this open source, free programming language. You can download it from processing.org; it's based on Java. ... The reason why is it's a tool intended for beginners, and intended for artists and designers. A lot of the language it uses is language that designers are already familiar with. If you're trying to draw a shape you set the 'fill,' and you set the 'stroke,' and you set the 'stroke weight'; you can have red, green, blue values; hue saturation and brightness values, you can have alpha transparency values. It's language that you're already familiar with in terms of thinking of visual properties. Design and visualization Visualization is a natural fit for designers because it's leveraging all the visual communication skills, all the problem solving skills that we've already practiced. It's just in a more specific domain. The STEAM evolution My sense [of the state of design education] within my own little niche is that things are improving, and they're improving in an exciting way. That's in the sense that we have this whole STEM discussion: sciences, technology, engineering, math. That's really valuable, but that's evolved into a STEAM discussion, where we inset A for art in the middle. The art also represents design in this case, so creative coding fits into that. Getting students not necessarily even into computer science, but getting exposure to these coding skills earlier—that's really exciting.

The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Staying relevant, design as a problem-solving process, and a creative coding approach for designers.In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Scott Murray, designer, creative coder, and artist who writes software to create data visualizations. Murray is the author of Interactive Data Visualization for the Web and the forthcoming book Creative Coding and Data Visualization with p5.js: Drawing on the Web with JavaScript. Murray is teaching an online course, Programming for Designers on May 11-12, 2016. We talk about why coding is a great skill for designers to learn (and it’s not just about earning more money); data visualization; and why design, at it’s core, is problem solving.Here are a few highlights from our conversation: Design and data visualization We're swimming in infographics, and we have open government data, open data, API's data—data, data everything. You can't avoid data. It's a critical part of the modern world. The way I see it, to stay relevant, designers have to keep engaging in the modern world. Visualization is a natural fit for designers because it's leveraging all the visual communication skills, all the problem solving skills that we've already practiced. It's just in a more specific domain. You might still be designing posters, or dashboard, or charts, or something, but your source materials are these rows and columns of values instead of unstructured text. It's just a more specific kind of design. It uses all the same skills, and then some. Historically, everybody who’s practicing in the field now came from another place, so they're either coming from design, data science, statistics, architecture, computer science, cognitive science, journalism. Essentially, everybody was trained as something else and then found their way into this, which I love. Doing data viz, you get to meet so many interesting people and curious people. But it does make it hard—there's no one-size-fits-all solution when people are trying to figure out how to get into it. I point people to Alberto Ciaro's website or Andy Kirk's websites. Those are: thefunctionalart.com and visualisingdata.com. Problem solving: The meaning of design One of the challenges I see is getting design recognized as a problem-solving process, not just as a beautification tool, and not even just as a visual process, either. I think designers get this already, but design is one of those weird words that has different kinds of meaning and different contexts, so it's hard ... When I'm talking about design, I'm usually talking about this problem-solving process that you could apply to making a band poster, or making an interactive silly face, or do like IDEO does: change organization design, designing entirely new school systems from scratch. They're visual elements, but it's not really a visual problem. You apply the design process to political problems, social problems. To me, that's one of the challenges, and the related challenge for the field is to figure out how to manage all this complexity that goes with increasing popularity and more and more people in more and more fields adopting the design language, and design thinking, and design process. It can be super intimidating for new designers—and especially students I've worked with who are just coming out of school. They graduate and they're dropped into this whole world that is just ... I guess every generation thinks the world is more complicated than it was for the previous generation, but it really feels that way. The bar is so high. It's like to get any design job you have to already be familiar with these thousand different processes, and techniques, and tools. It can be really intimidating. I think managing that complexity is going to be huge. How programming can help designers Even if you don't go on to code as part of your job, learning to speak that language and learning the thinking process that goes behind programming is helpful. We call it computational thinking. Appreciating how the computer operates and how you have to think about your own design systems differently in order to fit them into that box that the computer can understand. That's really helpful later, even if you don't code yourself, because then you can talk to developers and other people on your team who are working with this stuff. I guarantee you'll start to understand, ‘Oh, they always get frustrated when I ask for x, y, and z. Now, I see why that's a big deal because I have a sense.’ Maybe you don't understand the details, but you have a sense of what effort had to go into creating that. In the online Programming for Designers course, I’m using a creative coding approach to programming, which is to say that the philosophy I'm bringing to this is, ‘You figure out how to communicate to the computer to get it to do what you want’—that's pretty different from, ‘You figure out the most efficient way of solving a particular problem.’ That's not something I do. That's something computer scientists and proper developers do really well. [In the training course,] we're going to use this new tool called P5JS, which is a Javascript framework.

The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Staying relevant, design as a problem-solving process, and a creative coding approach for designers.In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Scott Murray, designer, creative coder, and artist who writes software to create data visualizations. Murray is the author of Interactive Data Visualization for the Web and the forthcoming book Creative Coding and Data Visualization with p5.js: Drawing on the Web with JavaScript. Murray is teaching an online course, Programming for Designers on May 11-12, 2016. We talk about why coding is a great skill for designers to learn (and it’s not just about earning more money); data visualization; and why design, at it’s core, is problem solving.Here are a few highlights from our conversation: Design and data visualization We're swimming in infographics, and we have open government data, open data, API's data—data, data everything. You can't avoid data. It's a critical part of the modern world. The way I see it, to stay relevant, designers have to keep engaging in the modern world. Visualization is a natural fit for designers because it's leveraging all the visual communication skills, all the problem solving skills that we've already practiced. It's just in a more specific domain. You might still be designing posters, or dashboard, or charts, or something, but your source materials are these rows and columns of values instead of unstructured text. It's just a more specific kind of design. It uses all the same skills, and then some. Historically, everybody who’s practicing in the field now came from another place, so they're either coming from design, data science, statistics, architecture, computer science, cognitive science, journalism. Essentially, everybody was trained as something else and then found their way into this, which I love. Doing data viz, you get to meet so many interesting people and curious people. But it does make it hard—there's no one-size-fits-all solution when people are trying to figure out how to get into it. I point people to Alberto Ciaro's website or Andy Kirk's websites. Those are: thefunctionalart.com and visualisingdata.com. Problem solving: The meaning of design One of the challenges I see is getting design recognized as a problem-solving process, not just as a beautification tool, and not even just as a visual process, either. I think designers get this already, but design is one of those weird words that has different kinds of meaning and different contexts, so it's hard ... When I'm talking about design, I'm usually talking about this problem-solving process that you could apply to making a band poster, or making an interactive silly face, or do like IDEO does: change organization design, designing entirely new school systems from scratch. They're visual elements, but it's not really a visual problem. You apply the design process to political problems, social problems. To me, that's one of the challenges, and the related challenge for the field is to figure out how to manage all this complexity that goes with increasing popularity and more and more people in more and more fields adopting the design language, and design thinking, and design process. It can be super intimidating for new designers—and especially students I've worked with who are just coming out of school. They graduate and they're dropped into this whole world that is just ... I guess every generation thinks the world is more complicated than it was for the previous generation, but it really feels that way. The bar is so high. It's like to get any design job you have to already be familiar with these thousand different processes, and techniques, and tools. It can be really intimidating. I think managing that complexity is going to be huge. How programming can help designers Even if you don't go on to code as part of your job, learning to speak that language and learning the thinking process that goes behind programming is helpful. We call it computational thinking. Appreciating how the computer operates and how you have to think about your own design systems differently in order to fit them into that box that the computer can understand. That's really helpful later, even if you don't code yourself, because then you can talk to developers and other people on your team who are working with this stuff. I guarantee you'll start to understand, ‘Oh, they always get frustrated when I ask for x, y, and z. Now, I see why that's a big deal because I have a sense.’ Maybe you don't understand the details, but you have a sense of what effort had to go into creating that. In the online Programming for Designers course, I’m using a creative coding approach to programming, which is to say that the philosophy I'm bringing to this is, ‘You figure out how to communicate to the computer to get it to do what you want’—that's pretty different from, ‘You figure out the most efficient way of solving a particular problem.’ That's not something I do. That's something computer scientists and proper developers do really well. [In the training course,] we're going to use this new tool called P5JS, which is a Javascript framework.

Ben talks to developer Joanne Cheng about lessons learned from the conference circuit, as well as the subject of her latest conf talk, Data-Driven-Documents within JavaScript, and trends in dashboard design. D3 Interactive Data Visualization for the Web Edward Tufte Why Most Dashboards Fail- Stephen Few FlowingData Overtone Let's Talk About Dials Joanne on Twitter AirConf

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