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. Gabri…

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 correspo…

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 g…

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, Causal Inference, and S…

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 the Data Visualization Society, the new Information is Beautiful Award…

A short episode to announce a big change in the future of the podcast: Evan has decided to leave the show! He's doing so to reduce his own commitments and avoid burnout, but is leaving with a lot of goodwill for the podcast to carry on. Scott will continue to host the show with a new co-host to be announced in the next episode. Thank you all so muc…

Welcome, Citizens of the Globe, to the Frontend Heroes podcast. Our show is available to watch on Youtube as well as in audio form! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnHOQaJkM-ckTkoN8sGLbhQ We're joined this time by Debbie O'Brien, Head Developer Advocate at Bit, Github Star, Google Developer Expert, Microsoft MVP, and much more. …

Welcome, Citizens of the Globe, to the Frontend Heroes podcast. Our show is available to watch on Youtube as well as in audio form! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnHOQaJkM-ckTkoN8sGLbhQ We're joined this time by Sam Julien, professional gate-opener, managing DevRel at Auth0, instructor at egghead, and author of the Developer M…

Welcome, Citizens of the Globe, to the Frontend Heroes podcast. Our show is available to watch on Youtube as well as in audio form! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnHOQaJkM-ckTkoN8sGLbhQ We're joined this time by Amelia Wattenberger, a Staff Engineer at Github Next and Author of the Fullstack D3 and Data Visualization course & …

Welcome, Citizens of the Globe, to the Frontend Heroes podcast. Our show is available to watch on Youtube as well as in audio form! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnHOQaJkM-ckTkoN8sGLbhQ Tune in for a fascinating discussion with Maggie Appleton, UX designer, art director & anthropologist at egghead.io. We touched on Second Brai…

Welcome, Citizens of the Globe, to the Frontend Heroes podcast. Our show is available to watch on Youtube as well as in audio form! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnHOQaJkM-ckTkoN8sGLbhQ Join us for a talk with Brandon Roberts, web dev, Developer Advocate at Nrwl, and a maintainer of NgRx. We touch on working in open source, wh…

Visualization is a very powerful cognitive tool. I think we all agree with that. But what happens if a person is visually impaired or has other impairments that prevent them to fully benefit from it? It’s surprising, despite the huge success visualization had during these last few years, how little we have to show in terms of supporting this very r…

Welcome, Citizens of the Globe, to the Frontend Heroes podcast. Our show is available to watch on Youtube as well as in audio form! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnHOQaJkM-ckTkoN8sGLbhQ We're joined by Shaundai Person this time, UI Engineer at Salesloft and an instructor at Egghead. We talk a great deal about TypeScript, what …

Welcome, Citizens of the Globe, to the Frontend Heroes podcast. Our show is available to watch on Youtube as well as in audio form! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnHOQaJkM-ckTkoN8sGLbhQ We're joined by Jason Lengstorf this time, VP of Developer Experience at Netlify and host of LearnWithJason.dev. We talked about a lot of thin…

Welcome, Citizens of the Globe, to the Frontend Heroes podcast. Our show is now available to watch on Youtube as well as in audio form! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnHOQaJkM-ckTkoN8sGLbhQ In this episode we are joined by Cassie Evans, Lead bestower of animation superpowers at Greensock, speaker, educator, and SVG Magician. W…

Welcome, Citizens of the Globe, to the Frontend Heroes podcast. Our show is now available to watch on Youtube as well as in audio form! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnHOQaJkM-ckTkoN8sGLbhQ In this episode we are joined by Ryan Burgess, Engineering Manager at Netflix, and host of the engineering podcast Frontend Happy Hour. We…

Welcome, Citizens of the Globe, to the Frontend Heroes podcast. Our show is now available to watch on Youtube as well as in audio form! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnHOQaJkM-ckTkoN8sGLbhQ In this episode we are joined by Stephanie Eckles, author of ModernCSS.dev, Egghead instructor, and creator of styleStage.dev. She joined …

Welcome, Citizens of the Globe, to the Frontend Heroes podcast. Our show is now available to watch on Youtube as well as in audio form! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnHOQaJkM-ckTkoN8sGLbhQ In this episode we are joined by Ahmad Shadeed, an independent product designer and frontend developer from Palestine, and author of the b…

Welcome, Citizens of the Globe, to the Frontend Heroes podcast. Our show is now available to watch on Youtube as well as in audio form! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnHOQaJkM-ckTkoN8sGLbhQ In this episode we are joined by Nolan Lawson, a Frontend Engineer and web performance expert. He joined us to talk about his blog article…

Welcome, Citizens of the Globe, to the Frontend Heroes podcast. Our show is now available to watch on Youtube as well as in audio form! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnHOQaJkM-ckTkoN8sGLbhQ In this episode we are joined by Shirley Wu, award winning creative and co-author of the book Data Sketches. We skim the surface of data v…

Welcome, Citizens of the Globe, to the Frontend Heroes podcast. Our show is now available to watch on Youtube as well as in audio form! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnHOQaJkM-ckTkoN8sGLbhQ In this episode we are joined by Sarah Dayan, a Staff Software Engineer at Algolia. We discuss how to approach adoption of new tools such …

Welcome, Citizens of the Globe, to the Frontend Heroes podcast. Our show is now available to watch on Youtube as well as in audio form! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnHOQaJkM-ckTkoN8sGLbhQ This time around, we are joined by Chris Sevilleja, founder of Scotch.io and Dev Advocate at Digital Ocean. We discuss the overlaps betwee…

We have our friend Sandra Rendgen on the show to talk about the work of Edward Tufte. Tufte does not need any introductions of course. We discuss his early works and efforts, all the books he published, his contribution and legacy and the influence he had on our work. Enjoy the show! Remember: our podcast is listener-supported, please consider maki…

Welcome, Citizens of the Globe, to the Frontend Heroes podcast. This episode marks the beginning of Season 2 of our show, which is now available to watch on Youtube as well as in audio form! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnHOQaJkM-ckTkoN8sGLbhQ This time around, we are joined by Natalia Venditto, a talented FE Solution Archite…

In this episode we kick off a new year and discuss what's in store for the future of the front end with two new guests! Guests: Ines Akrap @InesAkrap Alvaro Saburido @alvarosaburido1 True Hero pick: Anthony Fu @antfu7 Music picks: Scott: Uprise Music Evan: Nhato - Trace of Will Ines: 2CELLOS - Supermassive Black Hole Alvaro: The Kiffness feat. Bila…

In this episode we discuss web performance, core vitals, and more with our latest guest! Guests: Fabian Krumbholtz @fabkru True Hero pick: Harry Roberts @csswizardry Music picks: Scott: Black Pumas - Black Pumas Evan: Tiasu - W_hole Fabian: Pauline En La PlayaBy Scott Francis & Evan Payne

This week, we are joined by Amelia Wattenberger, journalist-engineer at the Pudding and book author. We discuss the exciting Svelte framework for web development, which is especially well suited for developing interactive data visualizations. Hear how it compares to other frameworks like react, why web development nowadays seems so complicated, and…

Hey all, we are back! In this classic episode we go over highlights from the IEEE VIS’20 conference. We cover a broad set of themes with Danielle Szafir from University of Colorado and Miriah Meyer from University of Utah, who helped us explore latest trends in visualization. See the main links and details in the show notes below. There is a lot to…

In this episode we discuss reactivity, Svelte, and how sometimes it's ok to do things the easy way with our latest guest! Guests: Ignacio Bustos @linkedin True Hero pick: Rich Harris @Rich_Harris Music picks: Scott: Podcast - The Jason & Osi Podcast & Bright Eyes - Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was Evan: Toumani Diabaté - The Mandé Variat…

In this episode we discuss the tools and ticks we use on the frontend related to visual styling and CSS. We talk about grid systems, Tailwind (!), Css design patterns, and more. True Hero pick: Rachel Andrew @rachelandrew Music picks: Scott: David Wenngren - Summer Songs Evan: Hidden Orchestra - Archipelago…

In this episode, we discuss work-life balance, avoiding burnout, and how to switch off when you need to. It's something that we all need to be aware of so that we take care of our mental health. True Hero pick: Adam Wathan @adamwathan Music picks: Scott: Alfa 9 - My Sweet Movida Evan: Photay - Waking Hours…

In this episode (with an obscure reference in the title), we discuss asynchronous programming, diving into another area that frontenders need to understand: Time. Touching upon Promises, RxJs, NgRx, and somehow avoiding async/await! True Hero pick: Erik Grijzen @ErikGrijzen Music picks: Scott: Tame Impala - The Slow Rush Evan: Disasterpeace - Hyper…

We have renowned data visualizer Shirley Wu with us again (we had her before in episode 98) to talk about a new project she and her team developed to help people reason about the covid19 pandemic at a local community level. The team developed a simulation game that shows you what happens when you make certain sets of decisions over time that may af…

Frontend and Backend are two sides of the same coin, right? Not necessarily! Join us as we discuss the overlap between the two, with special guests from the world of full-stack. Guests: David Pelayo @ddpelayo Pawel Sobolewski True Hero picks: Fabian Krumbholz @fabkru Arnau Vazquez Palma linkedin Music picks: Scott: Stevie Wonder - Innervisions Davi…

Photo Credit: Kris Tsujikawa We hope everyone is doing well! We finally decided to record an episode on visualization and covid19. It’s been a crazy several weeks and one of the most interesting developments has been to see how prominent visualization has been in the constant flux of information. Who expected visualization to be so relevant, uh?! A…

As Frontend Heroes, one of our super-powers is making websites run fast, aka Performance. In this episode we talk through our own experiences with Web Performance, covering tooling, techniques and pitching the idea to clients. References: https://web.dev/vitals/ True Hero picks: Natalia Venditto @AnfibiaCreativa Addy Osmani @addyosmani Music picks:…

Like any self-made hero, we all have a utility-belt with special tools we reach for. In this episode we discuss those tools, covering things like ResizeObserver, Sass, Typescript and more.By Scott Francis & Evan Payne

This is our second episode of our mini-series on data visualization agencies. For this episode we have Caroline Goulard from Dataveyes and Gabriele Rossi from Accurat. With them we talk about their quintessential projects, how to balance experimental with regular customers’ projects, and how the data visualization field changed over the years. [Our…