My childhood friend Amy Herman teaches visual intelligence to vital and important people. Think Department of Defense Special Operations, FBI, Interpol, and Scotland Yard to name a few. You can watch her Ted Talk A Lesson On Looking or visit her website The Art of Perception or read her book…

“one glorious, shimmering, and singular species” Back in the days of too many conference invitations to accept I would often walk the conference hotel entering into unstructured but important conversations with policy makers, distinguished keynotes and leaders in their field and I always had a similar feeling. …

If you write words for a living I think you know what I mean. The world feels like it is spinning off it’s axis. We all know where we were when we heard the election results. I was in my hotel at a Tableau Conference. It felt different. The ride…

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I probably receive anywhere from 20 to 40 messages every week or so from individuals with questions about data literacy, specific data packages, or data visualization with Tableau. There are a lot of questions that I hear that I never thought to ask. I never asked for permission. Many people…

As soon as I completed the Columbia School of Engineering Executive Education program in Applied Data Science I became responsible for translating successful weekly assignments and assessments into an effective and scalable work flow. …

Often, when working on data projects, I come across useful quick snippets of code that help with the Herculean task of sourcing data. I…

I don’t typically err on the side of resolutions or listicles outlining a vision for the new year. What actually happens seems more like the art of procrastinating hitting a wall. …

Headlines within Continuing Medical Education broadcast record attendance at events, “Innovative” learning strategies, and tactics that lead us to believe we are making significant inroads in closing the gaps between evidence-based medicine and actual physician behavior at the point of care. ​All those successes include big data integration and improved…