Data Stories

Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner

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Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner discuss the latest developments in data analytics, visualization and related topics.

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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026

Data Stories connects visualization research to the practical decisions behind tools, guidelines, interfaces, and trustworthy charts.

Data Stories turns data visualization into a conversation about decisions: how charts become repeatable systems, how natural-language questions become visual outputs, and how statistical reasoning shapes what a graphic can honestly communicate.

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A chart guideline meets PowerPoint, and suddenly your design opinions need to survive other people's hands.

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  • to hear how you keep a distinctive chart style usable by someone building slides
  • to see what happens when your plain-English question has to become an actual chart
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Formalizing Design with Gabrielle Mérite and Alan WilsonMar 8, 2023

A practical look at keeping data design distinctive when many people need to use the same visual language.

Data Stories looks at a practical tension in data design: how a visual language can stay recognizable when many people need to use it. The episode is strongest when it separates basic chart production from the more expressive layer of textures, shadows, and photographic…

Data Conversations with Vidya SetlurDec 12, 2022

A grounded look at how Ask Data turns natural-language utterances into charts and follow-up analysis.

Data Stories follows the path from research idea to usable language interface for data, with Ask Data as the center of gravity. The guest moves through production-quality coding with peers, engineering management, and research collaboration with Melanie Tory, then connects those…

Highlights from IEEE VIS'22 with Tamara MunznerNov 21, 2022

A thoughtful visualization-conference conversation about research, practice, and the papers that keep shaping the field.

Data Stories takes a familiar visualization-conference roundup and turns it into a useful conversation about how research reaches practice. A guest draws out the line between established guidance and newer work, then looks at how one paper's structure can help practitioners…

Visualization and Statistics with Andrew Gelman and Jessica HullmanOct 6, 2022

A thoughtful look at how visual form, statistical evidence, and scientific doubt shape one another.

Style leads this episode's discussion of data visualization, framed less as surface polish than as a way of organizing thought. The conversation links visual form with statistics, moving through representative samples, counterexamples, anomalies, and the way scientific theories…

Catching up with Amanda MakulecSep 9, 2022

A thoughtful return that treats data visualization as both a practice and a community to sustain.

Data Stories returns from its break with a conversation that places data visualization back in the middle of the show's long-running concerns: analysis, interpretation, and the way data moves through everyday life.

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Episodes

  1. 1

    Formalizing Design with Gabrielle Mérite and Alan Wilson

    Hidden gem

    Data Stories, hosted by Moritz Stefana, centers this episode on data design themes, style guides, guidelines, design languages, and the “whole cosmos” of formats around them.

    Mar 8, 2023·1h 3m·2 clips
  2. 2

    Data Conversations with Vidya Setlur

    Hidden gem

    Data Stories hosts Moritz Stefaner and Enrico Bertini talk with Vidya Setlur, who heads Tableau Research and teaches data visualization in Mumbai at the Geo Institute.

    Dec 12, 2022·1h 8m·2 clips
  3. 3

    Highlights from IEEE VIS'22 with Tamara Munzner

    Hidden gem

    Benjamin Bach's dashboard paper maps 23 patterns into content, composition, and seven genres.

    Nov 21, 2022·57m·2 clips
  4. 4

    Visualization and Statistics with Andrew Gelman and Jessica Hullman

    Hidden gem

    Andrew Gelman calls style “not a luxury” but “an organizing principle” for graphs and writing.

    Oct 6, 2022·49m·2 clips
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    Catching up with Amanda Makulec

    Hidden gem

    Amanda McCulloch describes how Data Visualization Society grew to over 22,000 registered people in about three and a half years.

    Sep 9, 2022·59m·2 clips
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    Data Visualization Accessibility with Sarah Fossheim

    Jul 21, 2021·50m
  7. 7

    Edward Tufte's complete work with Sandra Rendgen

    Mar 9, 2021·1h 6m
  8. 8

    svelte.js for web-based dataviz with Amelia Wattenberger

    Dec 14, 2020·47m
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    Highlights from IEEE VIS'20 with Miriah Meyer and Danielle Szafir

    Nov 11, 2020·1h 14m
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    People of the Pandemic with Shirley Wu

    Jun 3, 2020·40m
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    Visualizing COVID-19 with Carl Bergstrom

    May 20, 2020·52m
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    Viz Agencies: Dataveyes and Accurat

    Apr 16, 2020·56m
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    Viz Agencies: CLEVER°FRANKE and Interactive Things

    Apr 2, 2020·58m
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    Spatial Thinking with Barbara Tversky

    Mar 19, 2020·57m
  15. 15

    Visualizing Fairness in Machine Learning with Yongsu Ahn and Alex Cabrera

    Mar 5, 2020·43m
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    Flourish with Duncan Clark

    Feb 13, 2020·41m
  17. 17

    Visualizing Global Warming with IPCC with Angela Morelli and Tom Gabriel Johansen

    Jan 30, 2020·54m
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    Data Art and Visual Programming with Marcin Ignac from Variable

    Jan 15, 2020·46m
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    Year in Review 2019

    Dec 19, 2019·1h 49m
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    Future Data Interfaces with David Sheldon-Hicks

    Dec 4, 2019·45m
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    Highlights from IEEE VIS'19 with Tamara Munzner and Robert Kosara

    Nov 20, 2019·1h 2m
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    xkcd or the art of data storytelling with web cartoons

    Nov 5, 2019·50m
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    Cognitive Science for Data Visualization with Lace Padilla

    Oct 23, 2019·46m
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    Iconic Climate Visuals with Ed Hawkins

    Oct 9, 2019·39m
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    Sweating the details with Nicholas Rougeux

    Sep 25, 2019·40m
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    FT Data Crunch with Federica Cocco and John Burn-Murdoch

    Sep 11, 2019·41m
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    History of Information Graphics with Sandra Rendgen

    Aug 21, 2019·47m
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    The Pudding with Matt Daniels

    Jul 31, 2019·52m
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    Data Is Personal with Evan Peck

    Jul 10, 2019·42m
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    Sketching and Visual Thinking with Eva-Lotta Lamm

    Jun 19, 2019·41m
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    Data Visualization Society

    May 29, 2019·47m
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    Immersive Analytics with Tim Dwyer

    May 8, 2019·50m
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    Turning Data into Sound with Hannah Davis

    Apr 18, 2019·50m
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    Visualizing Earth with Cameron Beccario

    Mar 28, 2019·36m
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    Simulated Dendrochronology of U.S. Immigration with Pedro Cruz and John Wihbey

    Mar 7, 2019·39m
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    The "Dashboard Conspiracy" with Lyn Bartram and Alper Sarikaya

    Feb 12, 2019·45m
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    Visualizing Uncertainty with Jessica Hullman and Matthew Kay

    Jan 19, 2019·55m
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    Year Review 2018

    Dec 19, 2018·1h 40m
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    A New Generation of DataViz Tools

    Dec 6, 2018·46m
  40. 40

    Peak Spotting

    Nov 21, 2018·40m
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    Highlights from IEEE VIS 2018

    Nov 8, 2018·38m
  42. 42

    Views of the World with Robert Simmon

    Oct 25, 2018·52m
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    Visual Perception and Visualization with Steve Haroz

    Oct 9, 2018·45m
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    Storytelling with Data with Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

    Sep 26, 2018·35m
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    FlowingData with Nathan Yau

    Sep 12, 2018·38m
  46. 46

    Researching the Boundaries of InfoVis with Sheelagh Carpendale

    Aug 8, 2018·35m
  47. 47

    Xenographics with Maarten Lambrechts

    Jul 18, 2018·38m
  48. 48

    Touch Graphics with Steve Landau

    Jul 3, 2018·35m
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    Visualizing Climate Change Scenarios with Boris Müller

    Jun 20, 2018·33m
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    Declarative Visualization with Vega-Lite and Altair with Dominik Moritz, Jacob Vanderplas, Kanit “Ham” Wongsuphasawat

    Jun 6, 2018·36m