The End of Self-Service: When we ask too much from our users
Has this ever happened to you: you settle in for what you think is going to be a moderate level
The chasm between us and our users
Data workers live in an odd space – exposed to the hidden patterns of the world without often being immersed
Mini-Project: Mapping Grief
Call this the anecdata / sketching fuzzy data edition…. Lots of models exist for discussing grief. I wanted to provide
Love It, Loathe It, and Lift It: The Missing Conversation on AI
I’ve sat through perhaps too many conversations on AI this month. Whether in-person (hi Outlier), online (oh, the discourse), or
Digesting Outlier – Part One: The Panel
Outlier put out a lot of food for thought. I’m using these posts to digest what I took in and
Hidden Data Points: The Relationships that Shape Us
As GenAI moves into spaces we’ve historically held for trusted confidantes, we data people have to delve deeper into our
Maybe you SHOULD judge this book by its cover…
You can’t write a book on functional aesthetics and not consider the external packaging. After all, it’s the first impression
Rants on Literacies: Whose job is it to communicate well, anyway?!
Children spend an exorbitant amount of time learning to read and write. For such a foundational skill, it’s a right
Uplifting a Tableau Accelerator to Design, Delight, and Deliver for an Education Admissions Dashboard – Part 1: Assessment
How do you use a Tableau Accelerator and still make it your own? Often, when we try to adapt someone
Functional Aesthetics for Data Visualization
Looking to get the latest on Functional Aesthetics for Data Visualization? Check on this webinar we recently did with Versalytix.
Will AI eat my job?
Soha Elghany posed a question on Twitter that stopped me in my tracks. Further in the thread, she brings up
The Third Tier: What it (really) takes to read a chart
How do you preserve a pattern? Somewhere between 8000 and 7000 BC, humans started keeping a record of their transactions.
What We Preserve
Mark Bradbourne hosts Just 5 Minutes, a podcast explores various themes around Tableau, data visualization, and life in general in
Revisiting the Language of Data Visualization: 3 Themes to do Viz Better
Years ago, in a blog far away, I started thinking through how to do visualization better. Better, while it sounds