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Monday Music Musings – No, that’s not James Jamerson, Part 2

By |2023-08-14T14:36:58+00:00August 12th, 2023|Music Musings, Sports and Entertainment|

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 [...]

Cross-Function Mobility Recap

By |2023-08-09T15:57:25+00:00August 7th, 2023|Business Visualizations, Chart Chat, Makeovers|

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 [...]

Likert Scale Questions the Zvinca Way

By |2023-07-24T17:35:46+00:00June 13th, 2023|Business Visualizations, Makeovers, Visualizing Survey Data|

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 [...]

2006—A Banner Year for Presentations Featuring Data Visualization

By |2023-03-01T19:25:10+00:00March 1st, 2023|Business Visualizations, Chart Chat, General Discussions|

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, [...]