Thank you to everyone for your kind words and encouragement after learning I lost my job. It means a lot to know that I have so much support. And for those of you who shared with me your own personal stories of job loss, hang in there. Even though I’m searching, whatever I can do […]
Design without Evaluation: a Horror Story
Okay, so I’m jobless right now. So I could sit around and mindlessly click the “Easy Apply” button on LinkedIn or I can write about some of the many things that are on my mind. For the moment, I’m going with the writing thing. I put our new car in reverse. And slowly I back […]
I lost my job, here’s why, illustrated (bonus: 4 lessons learned)
There is a saying among sociologists, “so you might not have a job, but at least you’ll know why.” Well last week, a little over 8 months since I started my position at EnCompass, I lost my job. My first ever lay off. Losing a job can be a taboo subject. But I think there […]
Visualizing Strengths Finder Results in Tableau
Strengths Finder is a type of personality test designed to give individuals a sense of their core strengths. But it’s often used in organizations as a way to understand team dynamics and guide team structuring. From an individual perspective it’s super easy to understand. If you ask someone who has taken the test to give […]
Data Visualization Lessons from a Bad Chart
My favorite bad chart sat nearly undisturbed for years in the kitchen cabinet of my former workplace. It was an almost ordinary looking bar chart adorning the side panel of a big yellow box of Lipton tea. It was the kind of chart that would be overlooked by most, but for some reason it always […]
But why is the swan black?
It’s the difference between is this true, is this false, and is this interesting. Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be sharing 10 of the cartoons I created for the Rameses Project on realist evaluation. Visit that site to get access to the full collection. If you’re at all interested in the illustration process I follow […]