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Hosts Alberto Cairo, Simon Rogers and Scott Klein will explore the latest in data journalism. You will meet the world’s top data journalists - and you will find out how they do what they do.Subscribe to see how data is changing the world of journalism forever.
Unknown Host hosts The Data Journalism Podcast, a news show with 57 episodes published.
Claire Boccon-Gibod is senior data visualization designer at the International Crisis Group (ICG). ICG’s latest explainer, “ The Fight for Sittwe ,” maps the current conflict in Myanmar. Claire joins Scott and Alberto to
Doug Smith is a reporter at the Los Angeles Times who’s been with the paper for over 50 years. He was also the database editor there from 2004 to 2015. We sat down with him at NICAR to talk about what’s changed in journa
Ben Welsh is the news applications editor at Reuters . He joins the hosts to discuss his and Scott’s recent article, “ Journalism lost its culture of sharing: Here’s how we rebuild it .” They share the ways they’ve seen
Greg Morton is the data editor for The Baltimore Banner . His story, “ Transit nightmare: Thousands of Baltimore kids can’t get to school on time ” won first place at the 2025 Philip Meyer Awards. We sat down with him at
Our very own Simon Rogers is coming out with a book on May 5th! It’s called “What We Ask Google: A Surprisingly Hopeful History of Humankind.” Scott and Alberto got a chance to ask him all about the research and writing
The Data Journalism Podcast went live at the NICAR conference ! On March 7, Simon, Scott and Alberto spoke with the team behind ProPublica’s Meyer Award-winning series, “ Life of the Mother .” Reporter Andrea Suozzo and
The Open Visualization Academy is a new open-access education project, spearheaded by our very own Alberto Cairo! It launched last month, and two of the other instructors, Hannah Dormido and Frank Elavsky , join us to ta
MaryJo Webster is data editor at the Minnesota Star Tribune. She joins Alberto, Scott and Simon to talk about her team’s ongoing coverage of federal immigration troops deployed in Minnesota. They discuss analyzing data i
As a new year begins, Alberto, Scott and Simon reflect on the broader state of the industry. They discuss dataviz favorites from 2025, what they're working on in 2026, and thoughts on the upcoming year in data journalism
The Trans News Initiative is a new project that tracks and analyzes news coverage of trans communities in the U.S. Our very own Alberto Cairo helped create it, and this week we're joined by three other guests who made it
The Straits Times is Singapore’s most widely read print newspaper, and its online presence is full of innovative data visualization projects. Our guests this week — Charlene Chua, Hannah Ong, and Stephanie Adeline — are
Not since Ross Perot’s famous TV presentations using cardboard charts have we had a national figure who uses data visualization props quite like Donald Trump. This week, Philip Bump joins Scott and Simon to talk about Tr
Data analysis is at an inflection point, with new technologies entering the field, and increasingly more practitioners working outside of journalism. This week, Alberto, Simon and Scott reflect on how they got into data
Outlier is a one-of-a-kind conference, held annually by the Data Visualization Society. This year it was hosted at the University of Miami, where our very own Alberto gave the closing keynote. In this special episode, Sc
“ 40 Acres and a Lie ” tells the true story behind the Civil War–era “40 acres and a mule” program. It was the result of over two years of painstaking research by Alexia Fernández Campbell , April Simpson and Pratheek Re
Cheryl Phillips is Hearst Professional in Residence at Stanford University’s journalism program, and founder of Big Local News , which empowers journalists with data – and has twice been on Pulitzer prize winning news te
Chiqui Esteban is Design & Art Director at the Washington Post Opinion section. In the first episode with new co-host Scott Klein , he talks to us about the lessons he's learned during his amazing career, from his early
It was a year in which a Presidential candidate said a chart saved his life, generative AI changed journalism and we worried about whether the field is getting less innovative. Scott Klein is an entrepreneur in residence
David Spiegelhalter is Emeritus Professor of Statistics in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge and author of new book The Art of Uncertainty We live in chaotic times and David makes that world a little cl
Kae Petrin is a data and graphics reporting at Chalkbeat , Votebeat, and Healthbeat, where they produce stories on education and voting rights. Kae is also a co-founder and part of the leadership of the Trans Journalists
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emeritus professor of statistics at the University of Cambridge · University of Cambridge
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the Gospel speaker · Capital Asset Management
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Scott Klein
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