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…
A few weeks ago, I delivered the keynote address at the First Annual Information and Quality Services Center (IQSC) Educational Event, put on by the Dallas Fort Worth Healthcare Foundation…
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…
I've been teaching a lot of data visualization workshops lately. Inevitably, when I reach the part of the day when I ask participants how they gather requirements to build a…
Whenever I teach my "data visualization best practices" courses, I always include an introductory overview about mental models - an explanation of a person's thought process about how something works…
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…