I just installed a bookplate signed by the authors of Storytelling with Data Before & After. Thank you Cole, Alex and @mikevizneros.bsky.social for signing and sending it, and most of all for another great book.
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
Thanks- they do on some platforms but not on others. I’ll let our tech team know. In the meantime you can go to www.bigbookofdashboards.com or www.dashboardsthatdeliver.com to check them out.
Storytelling with Data Before & After releases this week. Chap 19 by @mikevizneros.bsky.social has recommendations you can do in 5 mins, 10 mins or a full hour, yielding more bang for your buck. The authors really get it. Great book.
storytellingwithdata.com/books
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It is currently available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and directly from Wiley, the book’s publisher. Soon it will be on even more platforms. If you love data, graphs, or just the experience of watching satisfying, elegant makeovers take shape, I hope you’ll give this book a gander. More to come!
A teal cover for the new book in the storytelling with data series, “storytelling with data before, and after: practical makeovers for powerful data stories“. The most prominent visual on the cover is a large ampersand, overlaid by the words before and after. The three authors of the book are also listed: Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, Mike Cisneros, and Alex Velez.
It’s a pretty exciting day for me. For quite a while now, Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, Alex Velez, and I have been working on writing the next book in the storytelling with data library: “storytelling with data: before and after.” Today it is finally available for preorder. You can see the cover here.
Dorothy, a black cat, is sitting in a round cat bed, looking directly at the camera while wrapping both of her front paws around the photographer’s off hand.
It is Dorothy’s birthday today. She is five. She wants to hug you and also bite you, but in a sweet way.
I’ve taken great pleasure in introducing many people to “Data At Work” in the 8 years it’s been in my possession. It’s been a valuable resource to me in my own mandatory, and occasionally elective, Excel-ing. You may call it obscure, but if so, to me it is a diamond in the rough.
It was a nice reminder of how much of a positive impact you may be having on people you don’t even know. Being outwardly and genuinely appreciative, beyond standard small talk, feels awkward, but can make someone’s day.
Also: sometimes, when someone asks to see the manager, it’s a good thing.
Soon, the customer returns. She finishes her checkout and leaves. Now it’s my turn at the register, and the cashier says, “ I don’t know who that woman was, but that’s the nicest thing someone has said
The customer whips her head around and says “She is? Hold on. I’ll be right back,” leaves her shopping mid-checkout, and makes a bee line for the manager, who is running a register three or four lanes over.
The cashier smiles, but is a little embarrassed at being publicly praised by a stranger – this is the Midwest after all – and half facetiously says, “Thank you! You should tell our manager that. She’s over there in the striped sweater.“
Setting: in line at the grocery checkout this morning
The woman in front of me tells the cashier and the bagger, “I always come to your lane, you two are the nicest and the best team here. I love when I get to the register and see that you two are working.”
Yes my timeline is currently empty. But as Sam & Dave memorably implored, "Hold on. I'm coming."
