What Drives You?Have you ever wondered how to motivate your team best? Or get your child to do their chores? Or even why you’re disengaged from your work…Jul 26, 2024Jul 26, 2024
How to Succeed in Tableau Ambassador Applications (and Other Self-Advocacy) By Really TryingIt’s nomination time for Tableau Ambassadors. Before I get too far in this blog, I want to say it loud for those in the back: If you want…Jun 5, 2024Jun 5, 2024
Design Delights: White Space (with bonus tip: using padding to create a navigation menu)Welcome to Design Delights! In case you don’t know me, I am a data visualization developer with many years of experience visualizing in…Mar 26, 20241Mar 26, 20241
Don’t Show Me the Numbers! Play Suppression Whack-A-Mole in TableauAs analysts, we all love our numbers. We clean them, analyze them, find interesting stories in them, and share them with our stakeholders…Aug 30, 2023Aug 30, 2023
#VizCollab is BackHello everyone! I’m excited to be opening #VizCollab back up for another round of matches! In the last year I matched around 40 people for…Aug 1, 2023Aug 1, 2023
Viz Office Hours!Have a viz you’re working on and you’d like a set of eyes on it? Have a viz idea but no idea where to start? Just want to hang out with…Jun 25, 2023Jun 25, 2023
Scaffolding Tricks for Non-Date DataScaffolding data is an amazing tool to make sure your visualizations and analyses give the end user the information they need. Scaffolding…Apr 4, 20232Apr 4, 20232
IronViz Tips from a Top 15 FinisherIronViz 2023 just released the 15 IronViz Qualifiers, and they are incredible! When I saw my name on the list as fourth in the America’s I…Dec 21, 2022Dec 21, 2022
Tell me a story! Helping people see the stories in business dashboardsI have re-written this blog several times. I started by outlining the importance of telling stories in business dashboards; then reworked…Nov 11, 2022Nov 11, 2022
Lessons Learned from the Feedback LoopIn the past year since joining the Tableau community I have learned so much as a data viz professional. Being open to new ideas and…Apr 11, 2022Apr 11, 2022
Telling a Story with Your DataFirst, let me say that I love poster-style dashboards. Just take a look at Jennifer Dawes and Chimdi Nwosu’s profiles to see some amazing…Mar 23, 20222Mar 23, 20222
#VizCollab is here!Hello everyone and Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a safe, happy holiday season. With a new year it’s a great time to start a new…Jan 3, 2022Jan 3, 2022
Tips for Collaborating in Tableau“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up.” — Oliver Wendell HolmesDec 14, 20211Dec 14, 20211
Building a Network Graph in TableauHello everyone! This is my first how-to blog, so bear with me as I try to explain how to create a network graph.Nov 29, 20213Nov 29, 20213
Welcome to my crazy data journeyMy path to data has been a winding road, and I wouldn’t have it any other way!Nov 15, 2021Nov 15, 2021