by Stephanie Evergreen | Apr 11, 2018 | Blog
A while back, I announced that I was launching a mentoring program for women who are seeking to catapult their new business into the real world. I said I would take 4 mentees for a year. I had 70 applicants. I spent days reading through each woman’s essay,...
by Stephanie Evergreen | Mar 28, 2018 | Blog
Hi everyone! This is Jenny Lyons, back with another post on visualizing qualitative data. At Evergreen Data, we are determined to give you some immediately applicable guidance on creating high-impact qualitative visuals. When presenting qualitative data, we want to...
by Stephanie Evergreen | Mar 14, 2018 | Blog
Odds ratios are tricky. It isn’t actually all that hard to come up with some decent ways to visualize them. The tricky part is interpreting the results in a way that makes sense to average readers. How do you put the phrase “odds ratio” into a clear...
by Stephanie Evergreen | Feb 28, 2018 | Blog
If you’ve been anywhere near the world of graph making in the past several years, at some point someone probably sent you the Data Visualization Checklist, developed first in 2014 by me and Ann Emery. We built the checklist based on the best available research I...
by Stephanie Evergreen | Feb 14, 2018 | Blog
A family member works in IT at a large corporation. She recently forwarded me this resume they received for a job opening. Apparently, it had been passed around the interview committee with the subject line “Best/Worst Resume Ever?”. I personally liked...
by Stephanie Evergreen | Jan 31, 2018 | Blog
I can’t stop thinking about Harvey Weinstein. And as soon as I think of him, I remember all of the times I’ve been intimidated, harassed, undermined, or overlooked because I am a woman. With a deep breath, here are a couple of those experiences. When I was...
by Stephanie Evergreen | Jan 17, 2018 | Blog
[Stephanie’s Note: Social justice and reducing inequality are core values at Evergreen Data. Heather Krause at Datassist shares those values. She is one of the leading voices in discussions around inequality in data analysis and visualization.] By Heather Krause...
by Stephanie Evergreen | Jan 3, 2018 | Blog
Every year at Evergreen Data continues to be the best year ever. When I was younger, I knew my dream job would include meaningful work, awesome people, data, writing, and travel. I just didn’t know at the time how to put all of those things together in one...
by Stephanie Evergreen | Dec 13, 2017 | Blog
By Lydia Hooper, Fountain Visual Communications Data visualization professionals often focus on numbers, helping to tell the story of what, when, where, and how much. But more often than not organizations first need to better understand the why and how. Before there...
by Stephanie Evergreen | Nov 29, 2017 | Blog
Stephanie’s Note: A year-ish ago, we released our qualitative chart chooser and we loved it to pieces but, like most things in life, we immediately wanted to change some things. We collaborated with some researchers steeped in qualitative data collection and...
