There are a bunch of fantastic podcasts and online video shows that cover data visualization, visual communication and data storytelling. There are many more focused on data and data science topics, but I’ve tried to keep this list focused on only those that talk about visualization topics.
The challenge for listing podcasts are the links, because you can subscribe through many different podcast apps and services. If the shows have their own website, I’ve linked directly there. Additionally, I’ve tried to provide all of the direct subscription links that I know about.
Let me know of any I’ve missed or new ones through the Contact page.
Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner discuss the latest developments in data analytics, visualization and related topics.
[Apple Podcasts, Stitcher Radio, Spotify, PlayerFM, Google Podcasts, RSS Feed]
Economist, data visualization, and presentation skills specialist Jon Schwabish talks about data visualization, presentation skills, open data, and technology with guests.
[Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, PlayerFM, Google Podcasts]
Rid your world of ineffective graphs and mediocre presentations, one exploding 3D pie chart at a time! The storytelling with data podcast with Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic covers topics related to data storytelling, better presentations, and all things data viz. There is a story in your data—get the skills and power to tell it!
Hosts Alberto Cairo and Simon Rogers 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.
[Apple Podcasts, Spotify, RadioPublic, Pocket Casts, Breaker, Google Podcasts, RSS Feed]
Watch as Jeffrey Shaffer, Steve Wexler, Amanda Makulec, and Andy Cotgreave, debate the good, the bad, and the “screaming cats” of data visualization. By tuning in you’ll learn how to apply their thought processes to your own work. You’ll be entertained, and you’ll build better data visualizations.
Past shows are all in this YouTube Playlist. Everyone is encouraged to register and watch the shows recorded live on Zoom, and post questions. The easiest place to see upcoming shows is probably Steve Wexler’s Data Revelations Events Page.
A monthly video chat between Alli Torban, Duncan Geere, Gabrielle Merite, and Will Chase where we explore current topics in data visualization, our creative inspiration, the tools and techniques that we use, and questions asked by listeners. Video of past shows are all on YouTube.
Explore Explain is a data visualisation podcast and video series from Andy Kirk. Each episode is based on a conversation with visualisation designers to explore the design story behind a single visualisation, or series of related works. The conversations provide an opportunity to explain their design process and to share insight on the myriad little decisions that underpin the finished works. It also shines a light on the contextual circumstances that shaped their thinking.
[Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, acast, TuneIn, Pocket Casts, Breaker, Google Podcasts, RSS Feed]
Hosted by Lea Pica. Your one-stop shop for essential data visualization and presentation skills for digital marketers, web analysts, and BI practitioners. With regular original content and luminary guest appearances from Rand Fishkin, Jim Sterne, Dustin Mathews, Garr Reynolds and more. This is the toolset you need to present your data, inform business decisions, inspire action, and become INDISPENSABLE.
[Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, PlayerFM, Google Podcasts, RSS Feed]
You want to create effective data visualizations. That’s hard work. There are so many decisions to make, like chart type, annotations, and color! Host and fellow data viz designer Alli Torban shares the latest tools and methods that she’s discovered while on the job and interviewing top designers. If you’re an analyst, journalist, or designer who wants to hone your skills with specific tactics, then this show could be just what you need!
[Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Play, Google Podcasts, SoundCloud RSS Feed]
After writing about visualization for over a decade, Robert Kosara is experimenting with video with this YouTube series.
This is a bi-weekly video series by Bill Shander with short tips and tricks to help make your visual communications more impactful. Covering topics like the Curse of Knowledge, and alignment, and how to generate visual ideas, and more. Each video will be very short – just a minute or three.
Analytics, visualization and Tableau video series hosted by Lee Feinberg. If you're trying to improve your data literacy, data management, data analysis, data visualization, data science … there’s a big difference between people talking about being data driven and you hearing from those who have lived the work of being data driven.
[YouTube Playlist, Analytic Stories on the DecisionViz website]
Podcast Your Data is a regular podcast from Interworks highlighting conversations with interesting figures in the data community. Mainly focused on the Tableau community.
[Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, Google Podcasts, RSS Feed]
Host Tableau Zen Master David Murphy interviews amazing guests from the data viz community and gets to know them and their top data visualizations a little better. You’ll pick up their tips & tricks, learn what motivates them, how they’ve improved and have some fun.
[Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, RadioPublic, Google Podcasts, YouTube, RSS Feed]
Hear from the people who make and use Tableau, run enterprise deployments and create data art. Emily Kund and Matt Francis discuss everything to do with Tableau and data visualisation in a conversational format.
[Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, RadioPublic, deezer, Google Podcasts, RSS Feed]
Host Zach Bowders. The intersection of Data Analysis and Passion. Casual Conversations with the Tableau #DataFam and beyond give a human voice to the Data Story.
[Apple Podcasts, BuzzSprout, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Podcasts]
Statistics need Stories to give them meaning. Stories need Statistics to give them credibility. Every Thursday John Bailer, Richard Campbell and Rosemary Pennington get together with a new, interesting guest to bring you the Statistics behind the Stories and the Stories behind the Statistics. Data visualization is a frequent topic.
[Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Overcast, SoundCloud, Google Play]
I’m including Season 2 of the ZigZag Podcast in my list because the entire season was focused on the topic of Trust & Information and each episode was accompanied by a custom data visualization design of the episode conversation from Gioria Lupi.
[Apple Podcasts, RadioPublic, Stitcher, Spotify, Overcast, Breaker, Google Podcasts, RSS Feed]
