In Defense of Slack

March 8, 2021 | Collaboration, Communication, Faves, Future of Work, Technology

Cal Newport is a smart dude whose new book is based upon two fundamental misconceptions.

Tableau Animations Are Here. Professors Take Note.

February 25, 2020 | Dataviz, Higher Education

It’s a great time to spruce up a few assignments for my upcoming dataviz class.

A Visual Look at the Success of NBA Franchises

August 5, 2019 | Dataviz, Faves

Some teams have been remarkably consistent.

Visualizing Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals

July 31, 2019 | Data, Dataviz

Geeking out with Tableau again.

Business Intelligence: The Tools Change but the Concepts Don’t

March 17, 2019 | Consulting, Data, Data Issues, Dataviz, Higher Education

Thoughts on new applications and old ideas.

Visualizing Flows

June 16, 2018 | Analytics, Dataviz, Higher Education

Sankey diagrams can display data in very interesting ways.

What are the odds that the Warriors go 4 of 30 again?

March 9, 2016 | Analytics, Big Data, Dataviz

An in-depth look at the team’s anomalous shooting performance against the Lakers.

When Dataviz Manifests the Obvious

July 8, 2014 | Analytics, Big Data, Dataviz

The explosions of data and dataviz are mixed blessings.

A Visual Look at Ray Allen’s Stats

April 22, 2014 | Big Data, Dataviz

Static box scores seem so 1998.

The Folly of Basic Statistics

March 7, 2014 | Analytics, Big Data

Counting is easy; measuring is hard.

How Not to Visualize Data

July 23, 2013 | Big Data, Dataviz

A dataviz foul on The Wall Street Journal is instructive in a bad sort of way.

A Ridiculously Early and Hopefully Amusing Review of Google Glass

July 11, 2013 | Technology, Trends

My initial reaction to spending ten minutes with Google’s nextgen product.