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Does My MD Look Like Me?

  • Post author:Kathy Rowell
  • Post published:January 15, 2021
  • Post category:Communicating Data to the Public/Data Visualization/Newsletters
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The other day, as I listened to the news, a story came on about telemedicine’s increased use during the current COVID-19 pandemic. I wasn’t surprised by the significant increase in…

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Effort Matters

  • Post author:Kathy Rowell
  • Post published:December 16, 2020
  • Post category:Data Visualization/Newsletters
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My friends and family love to tell stories about my failed attempts at baking. Ha, ha, they’re hilarious — actually, they are, but I have to pretend to be at least…

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Bar Humbug!

  • Post author:Kathy Rowell
  • Post published:December 18, 2019
  • Post category:Communicating Data to the Public/Data Visualization/Graphs/Newsletters
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Can I tell you how tired I am of hearing people tell me that “bars are boring”? VERY TIRED. Bar humbug!! A true pillar of data visualization, bars are used…

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Heavenly Icons

  • Post author:Kathy Rowell
  • Post published:October 22, 2019
  • Post category:Communicating Data to the Public/Dashboards/Data Visualization/Newsletters
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It’s quite astonishing how even when I get out of my office and resolve not think about my work for a while, I stumble upon something that makes me think…

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What the Hex?

  • Post author:Kathy Rowell
  • Post published:July 9, 2019
  • Post category:Communicating Data to the Public/Data Visualization/Newsletters
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I think (and hope) that I’m exceptionally open to new ideas and to change — but if I’m brutally honest, I must also acknowledge that there are times when my…

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A New View of Scores and Percentiles

  • Post author:Kathy Rowell
  • Post published:May 8, 2019
  • Post category:Communicating Data to the Public/Data Visualization/Newsletters
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Do you remember taking standardized tests? The one I remember best was the SAT’s, in high school. They struck fear into our hearts: would my friends and I do well…

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Leading Causes of Death

  • Post author:Kathy Rowell
  • Post published:March 25, 2019
  • Post category:Communicating Data to the Public/Data Visualization/Newsletters/Tableau/Tables
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It’s a beautiful snowy morning in New England. There’s a fire in the fireplace, and my husband is reading the newspaper with two pups snoozing away at his feet. It’s…

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Mekko Charts

  • Post author:Kathy Rowell
  • Post published:February 4, 2019
  • Post category:Best Practices/Communicating Data to the Public/Data Visualization/Newsletters/Tableau
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I’m a long (long)-time devotee of the iconic Marimekko designs and textiles. I have Marimekko clothes (I’m sure they’re considered vintage now), and in my daughter’s bedroom I splurged on…

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A Profoundly Moving Data Display, Revisited

  • Post author:Kathy Rowell
  • Post published:November 8, 2018
  • Post category:Communicating Data to the Public/Data Visualization/Know Your Audience/Newsletters
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Perhaps you’ve visited this memorial. There are more than 58,000 names engraved on panels of polished black granite commemorating the Americans who died or were listed as Missing in Action…

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Serious Talk About Bubbles

  • Post author:Kathy Rowell
  • Post published:September 18, 2018
  • Post category:Communicating Data to the Public/Dashboards/Data Visualization/Newsletters
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This past summer our beloved daughter, Annie, was married to our new, very favorite son-in-law, Douglas. There were bubbles blown by the guests as the bride and groom finalized their…

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Welcome to my newsletter and blog, Health and Healthcare Data Unleashed, a guide to understanding, presenting and using health and healthcare data, information and evidence. I’ve been writing and posting here since 2010 on a range of topics and resources I’ve encountered in my own data analysis and data visualization journey. You will notice a gap beginning in 2020 as I took time away to work on my book, Visualizing Health and Healthcare Data – I hope you’ll check it out!

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