Join me and @acotgreave.bsky.social on February 19 as we explore. Reserve your spot at www.linkedin.com/events/74281...

Who made the biggest T.U.R.D, aka, a "truly unfortunate representation of data?"

www.linkedin.com/events/74281...

An image of a Henry Moore sculpture, The Sphynx, and the Dashboards That Deliver framework diagram.

Hey, dashboard designers… who wore it best?

As part of my newly-updated Building World-Class Business Dashboards workshop I’ll share the Dashboards That Deliver framework.

February 24 and 26 online (two half days). Learn more at www.eventbrite.com/e/building-w...

Updated!
Building world-class business dashboards workshop, online, February 24 and 26 (two half-days).

What's new? I'll introduce the Dashboards That Deliver framework and communicating with data in the AI era.

Click here to learn more: www.eventbrite.com/e/building-w...

#dashboards

I loved this post and learned a lot from it.

Question... any interest in rendering this monstrosity as a stereogram? I have the source data if you are game.

America isn't exceptional — it's the exception America has self-importance in abundance. What it lacks is the data to back it up.

brutal bag of charts by @ashendruk.com www.not-ship.com/america-isnt...

I offer an on-demand course on Visualizing Survey Data Using Tableau.

I don't think you'll find a better or faster way to get up to speed. And you get lifetime access to the course.

The price goes up on January 15.

See www.datarevelations.com/visualizing-...

#surveydata #tableau

Women+ Conductors on Broadway Data Visualization Contest Broadway has a rich history of music and artistry, but until recently, little attention has been given to the representation of female and nonbinary conductors, music directors, and music supervisors ...

I'm working with some stellar collaborators to bring this data set to life through a data visualization contest. Please consider participating. Just *looking* at the data will expand its reach.

bigpic.me/broadway

Women+ Conduct on Broadway Data Visualization Contest Broadway has a rich history of music and artistry, but until recently, little attention has been given to the representation of female and nonbinary conductors, music directors, and music supervisors ...

That would be great.
bigpic.me/broadway

Please spread the word! The more people who participate, the more who will know about these trailblazers.

If you are into data and music (and especially Broadway musicals) THIS IS FOR YOU!

Join me and the stellar team I've been working with for a 20-minute Livestream on January 6 at 11 AM EST.

Women+ Conduct on Broadway Data Visualization Contest.

www.eventbrite.com/e/women-cond...

HOW COOL IS THIS TABLE?!

The table on the left shows my results for the first three tournaments I've played in Learned League. The green highlights are lightly-rendered bars.

I drew the bars in the table on the right in case you don't see them on the left.

Great way to augment a table.

Not being able to paste images in a reply on LinkedIn drives me nuts.

Finding the names of people I want to tag over here is difficult.

Sigh. LinkedIn was working well for a little while at least.

I'm willing to give it a try here.

For me, three things:

1) I hope to learn things and be challenged.

2) I need to contribute things others find valuable, either original content or comments.

3) If and when I have something to promote (a course, a book, etc.) my hope is that people will have seen number 2 above.

Great clue.

And the movie starred Cary Grant at his Cary Grant-iest.

Hitchcock, yes?
If so, then it's my favorite Hitchcock movie.

Laying off Twitter for a Week - Data Revelations Where and how to have discussions around data visualization From December 5 through 9, I took a break from Twitter to spark conversation on The Data Visualization Society’s Slack workspace. I want to ...

Ben, you are giving me to fuel to see if I can get enough people to give it a serious try.

I tried this three years ago and had some success.

It will need more than one week and I don't know if I will be able to convince some "gotta have" folks.

See www.datarevelations.com/laying-off-t...

@chezvoila.com oooh, that's a good one to lead with! Francis posts such good stuff!

Folks, here's a link to my newsletter where I express my exasperation with LinkedIn.

Maybe we can get a critical mass of data viz people to agree to put in real effort to make BlueSky social work.

mailchi.mp/b0a153ba5843...

Women+ Conduct on Broadway Data Visualization Contest Broadway has a rich history of music and artistry, but until recently, little attention has been given to the representation of female and nonbinary conductors, music directors, and music supervisors ...

Women+ Conduct on Broadway Data Visualization Contest

I've been working for the past few months with some great collaborators to bring this contest into fruition.

Learn more: forms.gle/xwPYxFehjfmT...

You can now get LIFETIME access to my *updated* Visualizing Survey Data Using Tableau On-Demand course.

Learn more at bigpic.me/course

#surveydata

Come join me, @abmakulec.bsky.social, @acotgreave.bsky.social, and Jeffrey Shaffer as we explore some of the highlights (and lowlights) of data visualization in 2025.

Like the BBC News, our goal is to inform, educate, and entertain.

(But without any scandals).

buytickets.at/datarevelati...

If you are into music and data (or music and history, or music and anthropology, or music and politics) this edition of Chart Chat is for you!

We'll be talking with musician, author, and fellow data nerd Chris Dalla Riva about his new book, "Uncharted Territory."

buytickets.at/datarevelati...

For Once in My Life — An Appreciation of Michael Henderson I think I own everything that Stevie Wonder has recorded and released, going back to the early 1960s.  On a recent plane ride to Omaha with my iPhone in shuffle mode I stumbled across a live record…

Monday bass delights.

Live recording of Stevie Wonder performing "For Once In My Life." KILLER bass playing from then 18-year-old Michael Henderson. Apparently, Miles Davis caught one of the shows and told Wonder "I'm stealing your bass player."

stevewexlertopshelf.wordpress.com/2014/09/01/f...

What's The Buzz / Strange Thing Mystifying YouTube video by Yvonne Elliman - Topic

Monday Bass Delight.

"What's The Buzz" from Jesus Christ Superstar. Alan Spenner (Joe Cocker) on bass. A veritable clinic on I to IV.

So inventive and so in-the-pocket. Great tone, too.

youtu.be/0X4h9TEwPRY?...

Sadly, I'm not an expert on creating the survey instrument itself. I can certainly provide ideas on what NOT to do, but my expertise is around visualizing and understanding the result.

Trump Taps George Santos to Head Dept. Of Labor Statistics Beltway insiders are calling it one of the most stunning political comebacks in American history.

How does Andy Borowitz come up with this stuff, day after day?
Brilliant.

www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-taps...

I had forgotten about this.

You continue to have what may be a perfect track record of nothing-but-really-useful posts (either your own or amplifying others).

Thank you for the kind words.

Hey dashboard designers:

This may be controversial, but I think a dashboard is a terrible place to *tell* a data story.

But a good dashboard can be an indispensable tool for helping you and your organization *find* data stories worth telling.

Learn more at buytickets.at/datarevelati...

Hey, dashboard designers:

Is this chart in your chart vocabulary?

It's one of my favorite ways to show "now vs. then" along with percent change.

We'll examine this chart--and dozens--more in my upcoming dashboard design workshop May 27 and 29.

Learn more at buytickets.at/datarevelati...