How many great ideas never make it out of your head?
Failing to hit a milestone
My daughter’s pediatrician visits in her first couple of years would always start the same way. We would fill out a checklist, or answer questions from a nurse, to determine if our daughter was reaching her milestones. One time the nurse asked my wife if our daughter was playing patty-cake, which my wife said no. […]
The wrong way to visualize data
As long as you make your point, and don’t completely distort the data, does it matter that your data visualization is setup to be fun and not focused solely on reader comprehension?
In the pre-lecture dressing room
Hypothetical: If a lecture will be presented live to an audience of 100 while being recorded for an audience of thousands, for which audience do you tailor the lecture?
Head in the clouds
I don’t think there is a problem with dreaming big, as long as you stick your head out from time to time…
Swimming in data
There is a lot of data out there just waiting to be analyzed. We just need to know how to swim…