Do you want to become a confident data designer? The first step is probably understanding what data design even means. I shared the following definition when writing my blog post about how to …
Web Reports are Easier to Design than PDFs
Why are so many organizations still stuck in a PDF rut? I've been blogging since around 2008. For context, I started on WordPress well before I had my own business, years before I started drawing …
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Schools kill creativity, graduate schools bury it.
Every now and again I rewatch one of my favorite TED talks, and one of the most popular TED talks of all time. And like every favorite thing that you watch over and over again, the talk keeps …
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Story Finding Worksheet
So this question came up from a participant during my data storytelling workshop. The question was something like, "How do you train others on your team to find, and then tell, stories?" During …
Creative Self-Assessment
If I could go back in time to my university days, I would certainly take some different electives. Like so many of you, I spent my time in college learning how to be a social scientist. Which …
Finding meaning in our work
I fell into the world of data visualization in 2008, when an executive at the non-profit I was working for at the time decided to send a few of the younger staff members to a local talk by Edward …