042 | Santiago Ortiz

11/14/14 • 71 min

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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!

LINKS

Lostalgic – Santiago’s visualization of LOST TV show scripts
Book: The Visual Organization (on how vis is used in companies)
Tamara Munzner’s design studies web collection (see under the heading “update”)
Miriah Meyer’s visualization design research
Book: Data Science for Business
Book: Python for Data Analysis
Book: Programming Collective Intelligence

You can try Tableau following this link: www.tableausoftware.com/datastories.

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.”

Enjoy the show!

LINKS

Lostalgic – Santiago’s visualization of LOST TV show scripts
Book: The Visual Organization (on how vis is used in companies)
Tamara Munzner’s design studies web collection (see under the heading “update”)
Miriah Meyer’s visualization design research
Book: Data Science for Business
Book: Python for Data Analysis
Book: Programming Collective Intelligence

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041 | With Lisa Strausfeld

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.

If you want to know more about her work you should definitely check out this video, where she presents may of the visualization projects we discussed.

Enjoy the show!

Links

Lisa Strausfeld on Wikipedia
Lisa’s Twitter Feed
LIsa’s Talk “Visualizing Data”
Lisa’s Mentor Muriel Cooper
Remembering Quokka
Pentagram
Bloomberg Visual Data
Bloomberg State By State Projects
Bloomberg Billionaires Projects
Bloomberg Truck Accidents Infographics
Bloomberg View

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043 | IEEE VIS'14

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. The list below should make great reading for the holidays

A big thanks also to our sponsor Tableau Software who continue to support us, which we are very grateful for.

Here are some of the links we discussed:

Everything except the chart

“Multivariate Network Exploration and Presentation: From Detail to Overview via Selections and Aggregations”
Domino: Extracting, Comparing, and Manipulating Subsets across Multiple Tabular Datasets

Revisiting Bertin matrices: New Interactions for Crafting Tabular Visualizations

Semiology of graphics

iVisDesigner: Expressive Interactive Design of Information Visualizations

The Effects of Interactive Latency on Exploratory Visual Analysis

Error Bars Considered Harmful: Exploring Alternate Encodings for Mean and Error

Four Experiments on the Perception of Bar Charts

An Algebraic Process for Visualization Design

The Not-so-Staggering Effect of Staggered Animated Transitions on Visual Tracking