Highlights from the Visual Communication for Groups Pilot

Highlights from the Visual Communication for Groups Pilot

I packed a lot into my 8-day trip to the Bay Area, but the primary reason for being there was to conduct a workshop at the Stanford D-School with Alli McKee. We met this summer at IFVP and immediately recognized that we should find ways to work together and join forces towards a common goal: getting people in business to think and communicate more visually. Between the two of us we have experience consulting at Deloitte, Bain, and Ideo for all kinds of clients and industries. In this time we have learned that even teams made up of the best and brightest talent still struggle to develop and communicate their ideas clearly and effectively.

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Lotto Vizzes FTW!

Lotto Vizzes FTW!

I love every time the lotto gets so huge that people pay attention. My favorite hypothetical scenario to discuss isn't as much about how to spend the money, even though that is super fun to think about. I love even more to play out how I would handle the 24-48 hours after I realized I had won. Who would I tell? Where would I find a lawyer? (Isn't that what you should do first?) Is there anything I would stop doing immediately? 

Sadly, I'm not living any of those scenarios...but apparently three lucky people are! My second favorite past time when it comes to lotto buzz is checking out all of the fun visualizations created using the rich data that is available to play around with. I was planning on sharing a couple of them in my newsletter, but there were so many good ones that I had to compile them into a blog post. I hope you enjoy my five favorite Powerball visualizations. 

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Playing With Real(ish) Data: Visualizing the Books I Read Last Year

Playing With Real(ish) Data: Visualizing the Books I Read Last Year

I haven't played with Tableau in forever, so I thought it would be fun to dust off my skillz and play with some data from Goodreads. I crushed a lot of books last year, thanks to an Audible subscription and being constantly on the road with earbuds in my ears. I am new to Tableau public, and am not even sure this embed of my dashboard will work, but I'm going to give it a try. The only way to find out if it works is to publish...so here goes...

UPDATE: It worked! Small caveat, of course it is not responsive so don't even bother trying to look at this unless you are using a laptop or desktop computer. Maybe I'll play around with a mobile friendly version in the future, or maybe I won't :) 

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My New Year Post: Twenty Sixteen

Apparently I have a lot to talk about when it comes to the turnover of 2015 to 2016. First, I wrote about looking back on 2015 through Instagram photos, and then I compiled a super meta recap of recap articles to help store some of the good stuff that I found at the end of the year. Now I'm ready to look forward with some goals and things that excite me when I think about what is in store. Nothing here is groundbreaking or revolutionary, but I suspect it will be fun to look back on this post and laugh about how expectations and reality did not align. 

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