Delightful, strategy-shifting, and totally free ideas for your next data viz

When a Bar is Boring

When a bar is boring, buy a round of tequila shots. LOL ok that might work at your neighborhood pub but your bar chart is gonna need something else.

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People are Meaning Makers

Every. single. part. of a visual will be interpreted and assigned meaning. Whether you like it or not. Which means we’d better get thoughtful about design.

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IDEAcon Keynote

How Data Viz Can Help Save the Planet Thanks for coming to my keynote – hope you got something out of it. If you’re feeling inspired to incorporate some of these ideas into your classroom, check out: Dear Data for the Classroom…

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IDEAcon Breakout Session

IDEAcon Breakout Session on Data Viz Save each of these images to your device: Head to the Data Visualization Checklist & upload one image at a time. How did each score? Practice making the better graph yourself.

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Quant and Qual

Tell me if this sounds familiar. Back when I was at the university, doing research full time, we’d produce reports where the front contained all our quantitative results and the back held our qualitative findings. We coulda been talking about the same themes in both sections but it was up…

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