Danyel Fisher's guest appearances

Danyel Fisher

Data Stories

Screaming in the Cloud

Software Crafts Podcast

Jessica Hullman

Robert Kosara

Michael Gonchar

Sharon Hessney

Scott Murray

Hans Rosling

Scott McCloud

Ben Wellington

Manuel Lima

Michal Migurski

Marian Dörk

Ben Shneiderman

Matt Daniels

Tim Dwyer

Evan Peck

OwlTail

This week in the podcast, we feature Danyel Fisher. He brought the heuristic “Users are correct but not accurate” from his repository. As a starter, Danyel explains that users have goals that aren’t able to express well, and we need to use different methods to discover the needs. We discuss what makes a high performing team, and in his opinion, one of the distinctive factors is the usage of mixed methods for problem examination! And, he gave us a new heuristic to battle personal bias: “Delight and being wrong”! Danyel recommends:  Signal: Understanding What Matters in a World of Noise by Stephen Few Making Data Visual: A Practical Guide to Using Visualization for Insight by Danyel Fisher and Miriah Meyer  Danyel Fisher (@FisherDanyel) is a User Data Expert for Honeycomb.io. He focuses his passion for data visualisation on helping SREs understand their complex systems quickly and clearly. Before he started at Honeycomb, he spent thirteen years at Microsoft Research, studying ways to help people gain insights faster from big data analytics.

This week in the podcast, we feature Danyel Fisher. He brought the heuristic “Users are correct but not accurate” from his repository. As a starter, Danyel explains that users have goals that aren’t able to express well, and we need to use different methods to discover the needs. We discuss what makes a high performing team, and in his opinion, one of the distinctive factors is the usage of mixed methods for problem examination! And, he gave us a new heuristic to battle personal bias: “Delight and being wrong”! Danyel recommends: <ul> <li>Signal: Understanding What Matters in a World of Noise by Stephen Few</li> <li>Making Data Visual: A Practical Guide to Using Visualization for Insight by Danyel Fisher and Miriah Meyer</li> </ul> Danyel Fisher (<a href="https://twitter.com/FisherDanyel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@FisherDanyel</a>) is a User Data Expert for <a href="http://Honeycomb.io" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Honeycomb.io</a>. He focuses his passion for data visualisation on helping SREs understand their complex systems quickly and clearly. Before he started at Honeycomb, he spent thirteen years at Microsoft Research, studying ways to help people gain insights faster from big data analytics.

Interview with Danyel Fisher

Miriah Meyer

[This podcast is fully supported by our listeners. If you enjoy listening to Data Stories, consider supporting us on Patreon. And now we also accept one-time donations through Paypal: just use this link. Thanks so much for your support!]   This week we have Miriah Meyer (University of Utah) and Danyel Fisher (Microsoft Research) on the show to talk about their new book Making Data Visual, which covers areas that other visualization books typically do not address: namely, how to go from formulating questions to building visualizations that solve actual problems that people have. On the show we talk about how the book came to be; some of the concepts introduced by Miriah and Danyel in the book, such as the use of proxy tasks for data;  and how you could use it for your own projects. Enjoy the show!  Links:  Miriah Meyer Danyel Fisher Book: Making Data Visual GitHub page with code  http://datastori.es/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/27fa4389-8b54-423e-9d6b-9360a3a0b8fc_27923.mp4

[This podcast is fully supported by our listeners. If you enjoy listening to Data Stories, consider <a href="https://www.patreon.com/datastories" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">supporting us on Patreon</a>. And now we also accept one-time donations through Paypal: just use <a href="https://www.paypal.me/datastories" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this link</a><a href="https://www.paypal.me/datastories" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">. </a>Thanks so much for your support!] This week we have <a href="https://www.cs.utah.edu/~miriah/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Miriah Meyer</a> (University of Utah) and <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/danyelf/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Danyel Fisher</a> (Microsoft Research) on the show to talk about their new book <a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920041320.do" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Making Data Visual</a>, which covers areas that other visualization books typically do not address: namely, how to go from formulating questions to building visualizations that solve actual problems that people have. On the show we talk about how the book came to be; some of the concepts introduced by Miriah and Danyel in the book, such as the use of proxy tasks for data;  and how you could use it for your own projects. Enjoy the show! Links: <ul> <li><a href="https://www.cs.utah.edu/~miriah/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Miriah Meyer</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/danyelf/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Danyel Fisher</a></li> <li>Book: <a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920041320.do" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Making Data Visual</a></li> <li><a href="https://makingdatavisual.github.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GitHub page with code</a></li> </ul> <a href="http://datastori.es/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/27fa4389-8b54-423e-9d6b-9360a3a0b8fc_27923.mp4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://datastori.es/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/27fa4389-8b54-423e-9d6b-9360a3a0b8fc_27923.mp4</a>

118  |  Making Data Visual with Miriah Meyer and Danyel Fisher

Hi there! In this episode we talk about bridging academia and industry. We touched upon this issue many times in the past so we decided to record a whole a special issue on that. To help us with it we invited Danyel Fisher, a renown Information Visualization researcher from Microsoft Research. This year Danyel is chairing the newly established Industry Track at VisWeek 2012, the leading conference in Visualization, and his job is to attract more people from industry to this traditionally pretty academic conference. We discuss existing practices, gaps, and ways to bridge them. Here is the breakdown of the episode: [00:00:00] Our special guest today: Danyel Fisher [00:04:00] Relations between research and project departments at Microsoft [00:12:39] Existing gaps between between research and practitioners [00:16:09] Transfer of algorithms, e.g. Voronoi treemaps [00:18:40] Visweek industry track [00:32:03] Affordability of big conferences for individuals, lowering the threshold [00:38:20] Live transmission from visweek? [00:39:21] How can non-academic conferences attract more researchers? [00:43:09] Researchers and their presence on the web [00:50:30] Are papers an adequate publication format for visualization research? [00:52:39] What else can we do? [00:54:27] How to get designers to read papers [00:59:28] Text books: Colin Ware, Tufte, Beautiful Visualization [01:05:52] Danyel’s current research: Interaction with Big Data [01:12:12] Final pleading for visweek and potentially exciting encounters with Moritz in an elevator Have fun!  			Related episodes The Hustle with Mahir Yavuz and Jan Willem Tulp

Hi there! In this episode we talk about bridging academia and industry. We touched upon this issue many times in the past so we decided to record a whole a special issue on that. To help us with it we invited <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/danyelf/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Danyel Fisher</a>, a renown Information Visualization researcher from <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Microsoft Research</a>. This year Danyel is chairing the newly established <a href="http://visweek.org/visweek/2012/info/call-participation/industry-involvement" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Industry Track at VisWeek 2012</a>, the leading conference in Visualization, and his job is to attract more people from industry to this traditionally pretty academic conference. We discuss existing practices, gaps, and ways to bridge them. Here is the breakdown of the episode: [00:00:00] Our special guest today: Danyel Fisher [00:04:00] Relations between research and project departments at Microsoft [00:12:39] Existing gaps between between research and practitioners [00:16:09] Transfer of algorithms, e.g. Voronoi treemaps [00:18:40] Visweek industry track [00:32:03] Affordability of big conferences for individuals, lowering the threshold [00:38:20] Live transmission from visweek? [00:39:21] How can non-academic conferences attract more researchers? [00:43:09] Researchers and their presence on the web [00:50:30] Are papers an adequate publication format for visualization research? [00:52:39] What else can we do? [00:54:27] How to get designers to read papers [00:59:28] Text books: Colin Ware, Tufte, Beautiful Visualization [01:05:52] Danyel’s current research: Interaction with Big Data [01:12:12] Final pleading for visweek and potentially exciting encounters with Moritz in an elevator Have fun! 			<h3>Related episodes</h3> <ul><li><a href="https://datastori.es/81-the-hustle-with-mahir-yavuz-and-jan-willem-tulp/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Hustle with Mahir Yavuz and Jan Willem Tulp</a></li></ul>

009  |  Bridging academia and industry with Danyel Fisher