How do you manage all the stuff you need to do each day? In today’s post I’m going to walk through my indie consultant project management process, which I call Agile for One. I am a creative with an ADHD brain. If you have followed me for awhile that sentence will not be a surprise. […]
Reader-Focused Report Assessment
How do you tell a good report from a bad report? That’s what I hope you’ll be able to do with my new quick 2 page assessment. So a little while ago I created a resource, it was a short 18 page eBook that walked through a 6 step process. If you’re interested you can […]
Human Centered Report Design
Are you searching for a modern reporting strategy that leads to visual reports other human beings would actually appreciate? I wrote you an eBook. Here is what you’ll find inside the 35 page visual eBook. It’s a super easy picture book that should only take you a few minutes to get through. The Why Behind […]
Make Dissemination Easy
Sharing our work well takes skill and experience. But not every data person has these skills. Should they? Qualified to Do the Work ? Qualified to Share the Work The vast majority of PhD and MA programs are not going to give their students enough training around digital dissemination to make them experts in sharing […]
Designing a Seesaw Graph with Canva and Flourish [Walkthrough]
So welcome to a new series of blog posts. Each will be a type of design walkthrough. In these posts I will start with a chart or piece of information found in a real report and adapt it into something different (not always better, but always different). I’ll walk you through my design process as […]
New Free Course on Micrographics
I’m trying out a new style of course, and for the moment, it’s free. Even the best designed full reports are only read by so many people. It might be the marquee deliverable you pass on to your client. The thing that addresses everything you learned and documents everything you did. But ultimately long reports […]
14 tips to make reporting easier.
Looking for ways to make reporting easier? In this blog post I share a collection of tips. When talking about my book with folks I get a lot of head nods. But then the obvious question comes next… “Okay, but what do I do about it?” The truth is, as important as you think it […]
Are you reporting or documenting?
Do you know why so many research and evaluation reports are super long and boring? I have a theory. One nice thing about putting all of your ideas into a book is that it makes it easier to chat about those ideas with others. And I’ve had the opportunity to participate in a bunch of […]
5 Tools that Make Reporting Easier AND Better
In today’s post I’ll share my five favorite reporting tools. And no, my list doesn’t include Excel, PowerPoint, Word, R, Illustrator, D3, Tableau, or PowerBI. My Quest. I think I’ve been on a quest. Now I didn’t know I was on a quest. It was more like something was missing but I didn’t know it. […]
Stop it with the Interactive Dashboards
So your organization gave you a Tableau license. Or perhaps you attended a half-day PowerBI workshop. Now you’re ready to use your new tools and make some of your data interactive. But should you? Not everything should be interactive! Tools like Tableau and PowerBI give you the ability to pack a lot of data into […]