Category: Episodes

  • Transcriptions dataset

    Transcriptions dataset We teamed up with Miska Knapek to transcribe our 170 episodes into full written text — resulting in 1,539,957 spoken words overall, including 61 mentions of weather, 923 mentions of maps and 48 mentions of AI. Check out a little tour of the data, browse and search episodes using our brand new archive page, or, for the technically inclined, check out data and code…

  • 169  |  Data Conversations with Vidya Setlur

    169  |  Data Conversations with Vidya Setlur We have Vidya Setlur on the show to talk about the role language, and natural language processing (NLP) play in data visualization and analytics. Vidya is the director of research at Tableau and has a background in natural language processing and visualization. She is one of the main drivers behind…

  • 168  |  Highlights from IEEE VIS’22 with Tamara Munzner

    168  |  Highlights from IEEE VIS’22 with Tamara Munzner Finally, this year we managed to record another classic episode from the IEEE VIS Conference (we recorded a total of 10 with this one!) We have Data Stories’ friend Prof. Tamara Munzner with us to talk about the conference and to highlight a few things she picked from…

  • 167  |  Visualization and Statistics with Andrew Gelman and Jessica Hullman

    167  |  Visualization and Statistics with Andrew Gelman and Jessica Hullman In this new episode, we talk about the interplay between statistics and data visualization. We do that with Andrew Gelman, Professor of Statistics and Political Science at Columbia University, and Jessica Hullman, Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University. Andrew started the popular blog “Statistical Modeling,…

  • 166  |  Catching up with Amanda Makulec

    166  |  Catching up with Amanda Makulec Hey all, we are back! In this episode, we have Amanda Makulec to catch up on what happened during this whole period of time. Amanda is a public health and data visualization expert and she is the Executive Director of the Data Visualization Society. In the episode, we talk about…