Blog
I am much more of a fox than a hedgehog. No, I don’t blog every day, but it’s fair to say that I’m pretty prolific. On this site, you’ll find a boatload of posts on higher education, technology, platforms, communication, collaboration, analytics, and other topics. They generally fall into the following buckets: insights, provocations, musings, predictions, and rants. I write more about big ideas than listicles and snackable content. Finally, I inject humor often into my posts and despise jargon. Click here to see an interactive word cloud and tree map of my posts’ tags.

The Analytics Project That “College Me” Would Do
If I were 21 again…

How Dataviz Can Manifest a Tale of Two Sports
It doesn’t take long to compare the states of golf and tennis.

Thoughts on Learning Tableau
Knowing how one contemporary tool, programming language, or framework works makes it easier to pick up new ones.

Summer Reading
Being able to regularly feed my brain is a nice perk of professor life.

Who’s Won the Most Majors? An Interactive Dataviz
With the US Open going on, why not play with some golf data?

Visualizing Men’s Grand Slam Winners
Playing with data and discovering insights have never been easier.

My New Udemy Course: How to Write a Business Book
This is the course that I wish I had taken when I started writing in 2008.

What I Learned Visiting an Amazon Fulfillment Center
Thoughts on my recent tour of an insanely large facility.

Sprucing Up Python Scripts With Data Visualization
It doesn’t take that much effort to visualize user-generated data.

Thoughts on Facebook’s Mistaken Deletions
The company’s explanation doesn’t come close to passing the smell test.

Is your organization embracing interactive dataviz tools?
Powerful new applications allow for greater insights and help overcome the IT-business divide.

Business Intelligence: The Tools Change but the Concepts Don’t
Thoughts on new applications and old ideas.

Having More Fun With Python in the Classroom
Why not make a simple PowerPoint slide a little more interactive?

Three Books That I Recommend to My Analytics Students
Thoughts on ways to expand their thinking about using data in their careers.