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We have our first guest on the show! Andy Kirk and Moritz just came back from Malofiej 20, the Infographic World Summit, and we used the chance to discuss our impressions of the event — the conference, the awards, the workshops and the general vibe.

Breakdown of the episode

[00:00:00] Intro and welcome to our guest Andy “Not McCandless” Kirk from visualisingdata.com
[00:02:31] Malofiej: what is it, how did we there and some history
[00:07:20] Pamplona lifestyle
[00:08:42] Stockholm syndrome or best friends forever?
[00:10:08] Conference talks in short
[00:10:23] Gonzalo Peltzer
[00:12:12] Andrew Vande Moere
[00:14:02] Moritz Stefaner (slides)
[00:16:13] Andy “Big Data” Kirk (slides)
[00:23:00] Sheila Pontis
[00:25:15] Bryan Christie
[00:27:39] Simon Rogers
[00:28:47] Robert Kosara
[00:30:44] Alberto Cairo
[00:31:59] Anne Gerdes, Nora Coenenberg
[00:33:42] Nigel Holmes
[00:35:20] Matthew Bloch
[00:37:15] Ginny Mason
[00:39:14] Carl DeTorres
[00:41:34] Jaime Serra
[00:44:17] Sergio Pecanha
[00:45:50] Mario Tascon (@mtascon)
[00:46:43] The awards
Winner list (pdf)
Gold medals with Jury remarks
All online winners with links [colorful-data.net]

[00:49:49] New York Times dominates
[00:51:22] Best of show: Guantanamo Detainees
Print piece (and some background info)
Online

[00:53:49] New York Times again
[00:58:17] Internet Group do Brasil
[00:58:49] Resumé
[01:03:02] What is an information graphic, after all?
Images of the Devastation Along Misurata’s Main Road
Part Ape, Part Human

[01:05:25] We should all submit our online works
[01:06:27] We just can’t finish

The jury + speaker crowd

More on Malofiej 20

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Hi there, we made it to the third episode (a bit late though, Moritz was travelling to SXSW).

In this episode we first answer to some of the questions we received and then we move on to the main topic: how do you evaluate visualization? We have been discussing some contests in episode #2 and thought evaluation is really a key issue there.

Breakdown of the episode

[00:00] Intro
[01:34] Listener question: Terms and conditions in competitions
[03:46] Listener question: Connect research and practitioners
[07:43] Listener question: How to stay objective about your own work?
[10:23] Listener question: Do we criticize each other?
[11:15] Listener question: How to introduce business people to benefits of visualization beyond Excel?
[13:58] News: Visualizing sprint
[15:54] News: Kartograph
[19:40] SxSW Panel: Intent and Impact: How Visualization Makes a Change
[21:36] Quality criteria and evaluating information visualizations: traditional academic approach
[28:08] Evaluation beyond simple, clear-cut tasks
[33:13] Enrico admits his secret love of David MacCandless
[33:58] Andrew Vande Moere and Helen Purchase: On the role of design in information visualization
[35:00] Truth and Beauty or: “I know it when I see it”
[38:36] Data politics and importance of how the end product came about
[40:36] Tamara Munzner’s nested model for visualization evaluation and design
[44:25] Code of ethics
[45:59] Wrap up and outlook

Links and images

• SxSW
• Visualizing.org sprint
• Kartograph
• SxSW panel: Intent and Impact
• Force-Directed Edge Bundling for Graph Visualization
• Hippocratic Oath (see towards the end of the post)
• A Code of Ethics for Data Visualization Professionals

Research papers mentioned in the episode

• On the role of design in information visualization. Andrew Vande Moere and Helen Purchase.
• An Insight-Based Methodology for Evaluating Bioinformatics Visualizations. Purvi Saraiya, Chris North, and Karen Duca.
• A nested process model for visualization design and validation. Tamara Munzner.

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Have fun and, as usual, let us know what you think!