Thu, Oct 18 2018

While working through the recent animated pyramid chart tutorial, I came across a chart showing the shrinking surplus of women in Germany by Lisa Charlotte Rost. Taking the difference between men and women populations by age, she focused on whether…

David Napoli One dataset, visualized 25 ways — determining the meaningful question(s) is/are at the start of the analytics workflow, and will guide, along with whom the audience is, what visual approach would provide understanding

In Australia, they call it “robo debt”: an automated debt-recovery system that is generating fear, anxiety, anger and shame among those who rely on, or who have relied on, social support. In 2016 the country's Department of Human…

David Napoli Ethically informed algorithms can help ensure equality is achieved — part of true Data Dexterity

Health Care in America: The Experience of People with Serious Illness, a project of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the New York Times, and the Commonwealth Fund, is examining the experiences of Americans with serious illness…

David Napoli Insightful #dataviz and storytelling — follow the link to the digital story within the article

Popular culture is fueling a dystopian view of what machine learning can do. But while research and technology continue to improve, machine learning is rapidly becoming a valuable supplement for the analyst. In fact, machine learning is the…

David Napoli (Note: Despite the title, this site has been updated for 2019) Collaboration, ethics, data humanism — all parts of Data Dexterity needed to drive efficient analytics and create understanding

Results-based leaders rely on having the right information at the right time in order to support operational decision-making. That's why decision-makers consider business intelligence their top technology priority. They recognize the instrumental…

David Napoli Efficient collaboration ('unity') across an organization on business intelligence initiatives is imperative … a great read on analytics strategy

Last week I sat in on a guest lecture by Xaquín G.V., a visual editor at the New York Times. He showed a variety of interactive projects rich in hooks. One article from his time at the Guardian asked readers to create a stable coalition…

David Napoli 'Interactivity [in #dataviz] isn’t just one thing: it accomplishes different goals in different contexts.' — great post

I've been around data my entire professional life. All my books deal with data in one way or another. I worked as an enterprise-systems consultant for a decade. And then there's academia. I teach the analytics capstone course at Arizona State…

David Napoli What is the business problem at hand, what are the sources of data … all key components of the complete analytics workflow

We have made a tremendous progress in the field of Information & Technology in recent times. Some of the revolutionary feats achieved in the tech-ecosystem are really worth commendable. Data and Analytics have been the most commonly-used words in…

David Napoli Analytics 3.0 should be 'information-enriched offerings', as data, in and of itself, does not lead to understandings … but otherwise a good post on the advancement and growth of analytics in creating wisdom