Helping your stakeholders see and understand margin of error in survey data. A deep thanks to Anna Foard and Jonathan Drummey for their assistance, Ben Jones for the foundational work behind for my initial explorations, and Ryan Corser for asking me to look into this. Update: an earlier version of this post was titled "Visualizing [...]
I wrote previously about a great bassline that people attribute to James Jamerson, but was performed by then 18-year-old Michael Henderson. Here's another bassline that sounds like Jamerson, but isn't. In 2015 the music world lost Wilton Felder. Most people familiar with Felder know him as a brilliant saxophone player and founding member of the [...]
Here's a recording and recap of Real World Fake Data meets Chart Chat: Showing cross-function mobility in HR data https://www.youtube.com/live/ZAxzJwyBuOk?feature=share 0:00 Introduction and Agenda 2:06 Backstory / Data 10:45 Assumptions, omissions, questions 14:09 Steve's initial take 16:30 Nicole Lillian Mark's submission 25:40 Dennis Kao's submission 33:10 Kevin Flerlage's submission 38:50 Andrzej Leszkiewicz's submission 50:10 [...]
I think I own almost everything that Stevie Wonder has recorded and released, going back to the early 1960s. On a plane ride to Omaha in 2014, with my iPhone in shuffle mode, I stumbled across a live and somewhat obscure recording of “For Once In My Life” that Stevie made at a London nightclub [...]
Welcome to another journey into somewhat obscure, but terrific music performances. There won’t be any data viz stuff here, just some good music. I’m not yet finished with Jeff Beck’s Rock and Roll Party Honoring Les Paul, as I want to talk more about Imelda May. In my first Monday Music Musing I talked about [...]
Welcome to another journey into somewhat obscure, but terrific music performances. There won’t be any data viz stuff here, just some good music. While the Rock & Roll party I wrote about last week was in honor of Les Paul, there were plenty of songs that had nothing to do with the musician / inventor [...]
Welcome to my weekly journeys into terrific music performances. There won’t be any data viz stuff here, just some good music. About ten years ago I played a gig in Massachusetts, way too far to drive home. Although I got to my hotel around 1 AM, I was pretty wired. I turned on the TV, [...]
Overview Although I was on vacation in April of 2023, I did see this twitter post. Daniel Zvinca’s response knocked my socks off. Here’s the post from Cole Knaflic. And here was Daniel’s response. “Goodness, yes” I thought. This addresses the shortcomings of what I’ll call the “inside out” approach for displaying Likert scale survey [...]
Why too much “ooh-ah” and not enough “a-ha” will derail your dashboard design efforts. Over the past few months I’ve seen a rash of dashboards, some of them beautiful, that are very likely to fail. And by fail, I mean people aren’t going to use them. And what do these destined-to-fail dashboards have in common? [...]
In chatting with Seth Godin and Jasper Croome during one of last year’s Chart Chat episodes I realized that three of my all-time favorite presentations and videos that feature data visualization were all created in 2006. And they all hold up. Hans Rosling’s 2006 TED talk Rosling was a Swedish professor of Global Health who, using data, [...]
