Bridget Cogley
ASL Interpreter turned Tableau artist. I love dashboards, design thinking, and sticky notes.
Touchscreen Toils and Troubles: Optimizing Tableau Designs for Tablets and Other Mobile Devices
It’s just a smaller screen, right? Except, you go to click on something and a funny thing happens…something entirely different
Continue Reading6 Months Later: A Retrospective
March 18, 2020 – e-learning begins for our school district in Ohio. We adapt a routine, the crisis still fresh
Continue ReadingHow the EXCEL do I communicate data science in Tableau?! Or, I made the model, how do we use it?
You ran the model, you rolled it out, and now you’re trying to get people to USE the magic number.
Continue ReadingHow the EXCEL do I start spatial analysis in Tableau? 5 calculations and a lot of fun!
Got spatial data and don’t know where to start? Here’s how to hone in those coordinates to a tidy cartographic
Continue ReadingRemakes, Revizzes, and Revamps – Who Owns what in a Creative Commons World?
3 Lies about Color (and what you can do about it)
Can’t get enough color myths? Me either! Instead of baking sourdough bread, I’m sampling my color talk at all the
Continue ReadingData as Testimony
Juneteenth: A Critical Examination and Conversation
How do we understand the world around us? One thing happening this year in the US are more discussions around
Continue ReadingWhat’s in a Name – What to call that Tableau role OR what should I put as my title on LinkedIn?
When I was interpreting, I had to explain to people I was not a translator. Bugged by how often this
Continue ReadingIn Full Bloom
So, says the flower to the tree, “how did you get so tall?” Says the tree to the flower, “I
Continue ReadingThe Ethics of Visualizing during a Pandemic
I’ve had a number of conversations this month about ethics in pandemics. Here’s probably a good starting point: people are
Continue ReadingEthics and What We Owe Each Other
This is a long read designed to address some of the ethical challenges that have come into play with data
Continue ReadingOn Solidarity
Beyond Techniques, Ethics: The Lessons We Need Today
I started interpreting before I had a degree for it. I worked in retail and some friends needed to know
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