Apr 2, 20213 minWho Can Afford to be a State Legislator?According to the NCSL, only 10 states pay legislators “enough to allow them to make a living." I wanted to know more.
Jan 15, 20214 minHow I Made My Resume More Visually AppealingI’ve really come to value visual simplicity but my resume does not reflect it. I revised my resume to be more visually appealing and modern.
Aug 11, 20202 minPie for Those that Feel DownPie charts have become infamous in the data viz community and have been largely replaced with other visualization types. However, there are
Feb 25, 20202 minData Makeover: Gender Bias in Housework PersistsAcademic research papers have certain requirements for tables and visualizations that do not align with best practices in data visualization
Jan 28, 20202 minVisualization Struggles: Achievement GapI am participating in January's Storytelling With Data challenge of creating a small multiples chart. I work with education data a lot and o
Jan 22, 20202 minLibrary Data Makeover: Using Color to Tell a StoryAn interesting CNN article describes the New York Public Library’s most checked out books of all time. The article provides a list of the to
Sep 24, 20194 minTaking Federal Grant Data from Dull to Dynamite with Custom VisualizationsIf you’ve ever worked with publicly available government data, you probably know the headache and eye strain that comes with trying to make