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What #TLDR Means For Your Report

What #TLDR Means For Your Report

by Stephanie Evergreen | Nov 18, 2015 | Blog, Communicating Findings

The short answer: It means your report is boring. #TLDR means Too Long, Didn’t Read. And it’s what people say/tweet/think when they get a report that is so long and cumbersome that it’s a burden to read. That said, the long report is not going away...
How Dataviz Can Unintentionally Perpetuate Inequality: The Bleeding Infestation Example

How Dataviz Can Unintentionally Perpetuate Inequality: The Bleeding Infestation Example

by Stephanie Evergreen | Oct 7, 2015 | Blog, Communicating Findings

Sometimes, whether we know it or not, the choices we make when we visualize data can reinforce and even perpetuate racial disparity and it’s time that we talk about it. The lull of the computer monitor and the belief we are just working with numbers can make us...
Plain Languaging Statistical Jargon

Plain Languaging Statistical Jargon

by Stephanie Evergreen | Aug 25, 2015 | Blog, Communicating Findings

My main rule of thumb is that you can show measures of variability in your graph so long as you can explain what they mean in an extremely concise subtitle. Translating scientific jargon for a lay audience may be the most challenging aspect of communicating data...
Theorists Can Have Great Slides Too

Theorists Can Have Great Slides Too

by Stephanie Evergreen | Jul 1, 2015 | Blog, Communicating Findings, slideshows

I have the coolest gigs. Every year I get to work with the Eleanor Chelimsky Forum keynote speaker to develop a slidedeck that rocks the house. This year, the keynote speaker was Abe Wandersman. I’d seen Abe present in the past and… let’s just say I knew I would be in...
How to Make a Short Report a Billion Times More Engaging

How to Make a Short Report a Billion Times More Engaging

by Stephanie Evergreen | Jun 17, 2015 | Blog, Communicating Findings

Anna Harms knows when the jig is up. Part-way through my 1 day workshop on Presenting Data Effectively, she knew what change had to happen (and fast). So fast, she didn’t hesitate to walk right up to me and say, “We are working so hard on our reports but there’s no...
President Obama’s Data Visualization

President Obama’s Data Visualization

by Stephanie Evergreen | Jun 3, 2015 | Blog, Communicating Findings, Presentations

I realize it’s completely taboo to write about current events six months after they’ve happen but I DON’T CARE. One of my favorite events of the year is watching the enhanced version of the State of the Union. Not the regular view – the...
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