Thu, Dec 13 2018

The most frustrating part of attending one of my workshops is that you learn so many awesome ways of communicating data, you learn exactly what buttons to push to make it happen, you get hyped up on glee and data vizardry… and then the…

David Napoli Must. Read. post on strategies to promote and foster a culture of effective #dataviz across an organization

Ok, finally it is done! This is a side project that I have been undertaking on and off for the past 2-3 months, after getting inspired by Andy Kriebel's (t | b) Tableau project – Visual Vocabulary. There were a lot of times when I thought it…

David Napoli If you've subscribed to my newsletter for a while, you have seen the original PDF and the Tableau versions — now available in Power BI, too! Such a valuable #dataviz resource.

In data analysis, we make use of a lot of theory, whether we like to admit it or not. In a traditional statistical training, things like the central limit theorem and the law of large numbers (and their many variations) are deeply baked into our…

David Napoli Yes -- instruction of theory of data analysis MUST go beyond methods of data analysis and into topics that do not strictly involve data, such as, IMHO, data ethics and data humanism. Must. Read. post.

At the end of November, I had the pleasure of attending the Tapestry Conference in Miami. I don't attend a ton of conferences and this is actually the only one that exists where I've (two years in row!) been present for every single session (both…

David Napoli Great recap of this excellent #dataviz conference

Policy Viz – Dec 11

On this week's episode of the show, I chat with Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic from Storytelling with Data to talk about the recent Tapestry Conference held in Miami, FL. A day-and-a-half of great talks and great people, Tapestry is a small conference…

David Napoli And a Must. Listen. podcast recap of the #dataviz conference as well

The launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket this year was a triumph of engineering and another celebrated coup for Elon Musk's space company. The airline industry says it was also a headache. To accommodate the launch, and the possibility that the…

David Napoli Amazing scrollytelling visual storytelling

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Easily Create Collapsible Menus, Sheet Selectors, and Much More Using Navigation Buttons Since the release of Tableau Desktop 2018.3, Set Actions have been at the forefront. Set actions simply opens up so many possibilities in regards to how we…

David Napoli Great dashboard use cases and walk-through of process for Tableau

We can learn many lessons about informing from beyond the world of data. This essay reviews my favorite design books, most of which are not explicitly “design books”. Each one somehow transformed how I see the world. But before we get…

David Napoli A phenomenal collection and review of information design books -- not necessarily data storytelling specific, but very much related and informative of proper data storytelling design and approaches

If you can't undercut a popular proposal as undesirable, make it sound impossible. That, in any event, has been the tack of opponents of single-payer healthcare, also called improved “Medicare-for-all”. “[W]e got to get away…

David Napoli Thought-provoking read -- a redesign of our health care system could not only ameliorate issues of health inequity, but of wealth inequity as well