Back during my Westat days, I was always a little surprised by how few Tableau licenses found their way into employee’s hands. We had a lot a data and the kinds of projects that could clearly afford to foot the bill for a license or two. But there were a couple of things that really […]
Single and Multi-Response Icon Arrays
I recently had the opportunity to work with the team at YouthPower to visualize their Systematic Review of Positive Youth Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. They had a very common data visualization problem. How do you differentiate the visuals for single response and multi-response data? This is a place where a lot of people […]
Open Canvas Charting with SketchApp
Like every other data analyst in the world, I have done my fair share of charting in Microsoft Excel. And also like every other data analyst, I got tired of trying to bend Excel to my will. Basic bar charts, line charts, and scatter plots are easy designs for a spreadsheet tool, but sometimes they just […]
Building a Portfolio, one post at a time.
A designer without a portfolio is like a doctor without a white coat. I have been without that white coat for over a year now. At first, I had an easy excuse. Just starting my business I wasn’t really sure where my focus would go. And to be quite honest, it never really fit in […]