Thank you to everyone for your kind words and encouragement after learning I lost my job. It means a lot to know that I have so much support. And for those of you who shared with me your own …
Design without Evaluation: a Horror Story
Okay, so I'm jobless right now. So I could sit around and mindlessly click the "Easy Apply" button on LinkedIn or I can write about some of the many things that are on my mind. For the moment, I'm …
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I lost my job, here’s why, illustrated (bonus: 4 lessons learned)
There is a saying among sociologists, "so you might not have a job, but at least you'll know why." Well last week, a little over 8 months since I started my position at EnCompass, I lost my job. My …
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Visualizing Strengths Finder Results in Tableau
Strengths Finder is a type of personality test designed to give individuals a sense of their core strengths. But it's often used in organizations as a way to understand team dynamics and guide team …
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Data Visualization Lessons from a Bad Chart
My favorite bad chart sat nearly undisturbed for years in the kitchen cabinet of my former workplace. It was an almost ordinary looking bar chart adorning the side panel of a big yellow box of Lipton …
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But why is the swan black?
It's the difference between is this true, is this false, and is this interesting. Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be sharing 10 of the cartoons I created for the Rameses Project on realist …
Tableau Like
Another day another website. I decided to split off my professional data design work and start building an online portfolio. So if you want to get a sense for what my professional visualization …
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Austin Kleon on how to get inspiration to strike.
Austin Kleon was on Kelton Reid's The Writer Files podcast. He said this when talking about writers block. It sparked today's cartoon. Problems of output are problems of input. …
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