Recently I was engaged to help the Donaghue Foundation re-imagine parts of its 2017 Annual Report. I was thrilled to work on this project, as the important work the Foundation…
Recently my colleague and HealthDataViz Senior Consultant Janet Steeger sent me the graph below and an associated article, with the subject line "Blog Posting?". (Click to expand) Incredulousness was quickly…
I'm sure you've heard the expression "Can't see the forest for the trees." It describes someone far too involved in the details of a problem or situation to grasp its…
I want to send a very big and public thank you to the Health Informatics and Financial Reporting leadership at Johns Hopkins Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, for instructing…
Years ago when I first worked at Mass General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, I had a really great boss, Dr. Dan Rosenthal. Like many smart people, he was also very…
Greetings from Bustins Island, Maine, where every summer I mix a batch of watermelon mojitos, climb into the hammock, and reflect on the year to date, the work ahead, and…
Listen up folks... it is time for a red, yellow, green color intervention of the most serious kind. The use of red, yellow, green to indicate performance on your reports…
Time for a confession: I've been a Twitter skeptic from day one. Even though I understand how it works (140-character electronic updates - "Tweets" - that people post for their…
Long-time subscribers to this newsletter know that every August, my family and I retreat to Bustins Island in Casco Bay, Maine, where I commandeer the hammock and contemplate life (along…
Unfortunately, and more often than is good for my mental health, I encounter data being ineffectively displayed in stacked bar charts. Which phenomenon leads to my "Question of the Day":…