Bar Humbug!
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…
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…
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…
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":…
As I mature (and boy, is aging a high price to pay for maturity), I find I have very little need or even desire to win an (never mind every)…
Like a lot of people I am a big goal-setter. I especially love BHAG's [pronounced "Be- hags"?]: Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals. You know: the ones based on no logic or…
It has been almost a month since my return to the States, following a truly gratifying professional engagement with the Canterbury Health District and Health Informatics New Zealand (HINZ). If…
I am writing this newsletter from my coach seat (28F, window) on United flight UA1292 from Boston to San Francisco. Funny how inspiration for a newsletter about healthcare data visualization…
Greetings from Bustins Island, Maine — where accomplishing as little as humanly possible is the only measure of a successful day. To that end, I am a total overachiever at…
I am highly suspicious of line graphs displaying the number zero (0). I am in fact so suspicious of them that when I see one, I hear myself inquiring (in…
Don't you just hate things that look really cool but simply don't work? You know: the fancy all-in-one kitchen gizmo that cuts nothing but your fingers, or the software that's…