Data Stories

170  |  Formalizing Design with Gabrielle Mérite and Alan Wilson

Data design systems and styleguides are currently a huge trend in the data design world. Moritz is joined by Gabrielle Mérite and Alan Wilson and together we exchange experiences in this emerging space, from designing dataviz components as part of Adobe Spectrum, the styleguide for Deloitte’s Insights Magazine or the WHO Data Design Language. Gabriele also wrote about adding touches of ethical guidance in guidelines in one of her recent newsletters. Enjoy! Related episodes Challenges of Being a Vis Professional in Industry with Elijah MeeksData Visualization at Capital One with Kim Rees and Steph Hay

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 Eviza, a research-based prototype and the corresponding product Ask Data, developed within Tableau to interact with data visualizations through natural language. She is also the co-author, with Bridget Cogley, of Functional Aesthetics for Data Visualization, a new book on data visualization with a lot of information about semantics and language in data visualization. In the episode, we talk about the challenges of going from a research prototype to an actual product, research vs. engineering, speech and natural language interfaces, the many ways language plays a role in visualization, the advent of language models, and much more. Enjoy the show! Links Winners of Information is Beautiful Awards  Book: Functional Aesthetics for Data Visualization Paper: Automatic Generation of Semantic Icon Encodings for Visualizations Paper: A Linguistic Approach to Categorical Color Assignment for Data Visualization Eviza: A Natural Language Interface for Visual Analysis Paper: Snowy: Recommending Utterances for Conversational Visual Analysis — Remember: our podcast is listener-supported. Please consider donating using Patreon or Paypal. Thanks! Related episodes Text Visualization: Past, Present and Future with Chris Collins

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 the many events that happened over this week-long event.   Links IEEE Vis ’22     Our guest: Tamara Munzner     VIS Keynote: Marti Hearst – Show It or Tell It?      VIS Capstone: Kerry Magruder – Galileo’s Telescope Discoveries: Thinking Visually in the History of Science      Keynote BELIV workshop: Casey Fiesler – Data Is People, Research Ethics Beyond Human Subjects      VAST 10 Year Test of Time Award: Enterprise Data Analysis and Visualization: An Interview Study InfoVis 10 Year Test of Time Award: Design study methodology: Reflections from the trenches and the stacks    Paper: HiTailor: Interactive Transformation and Visualization for Hierarchical Tabular Data  Paper: Dashboard Design Patterns Book: AK Peters Visualization series Paper: VegaFusion: Automatic Server-Side Scaling for Interactive Vega Visualizations Paper: Plotly Resampler: Effective Visual Analytics for Large Time Series   Paper: Visualizing Graph Neural Networks with CorGIE: Corresponding a Graph to Its Embedding alt.VIS workshop Jo Wood’s visual essay “Beyond the Walled Garden“ Paper: Affective Learning Objectives for Communicative Visualizations Related episodes from Visweek 2012IEEE VIS'13 Highlights w/ Robert KosaraIEEE VIS'14Tamara MunznerIEEE VIS’15 Recap with Robert Kosara and Johanna FuldaHighlights from IEEE VIS'16 with Jessica Hullman and Robert KosaraReview of IEEE VIS’17 with Jessica Hullman and Robert KosaraHighlights from IEEE VIS 2018Highlights from IEEE VIS'19 with Tamara Munzner and Robert KosaraHighlights from IEEE VIS'20 with Miriah Meyer and Danielle Szafir

167  |  Visualization and Statistics with Andrew Gelman and Jessica Hullman

167  |  Visualization and Statistics with Andrew Gelman and Jessica Hullman

166  |  Catching up with Amanda Makulec

166  |  Catching up with Amanda Makulec