For the past 4 years, around December I would start preparing data for my annual Travel dashboard. This year was a little bit trickier. I left my job as a consultant where I was traveling a lot, and we had…
Lesbians Who Tech – Debug 2020 Summit
Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to present at the Lesbians Who Tech & Allies Debug 2020 Summit. My topic was “How to Create Data Visualizations That Are Actually Helpful” (wow, a mouthful!) where I covered strategies for creating…
Tableau Conference 2020 Takeaways
Now that I am in a job where I am doing Tableau development full-time, I was really excited to be able to attend the Tableau Conference this year. Unfortunately Data 2020 took place remotely, but there were still so many…
Pandemic Impact on US Travel
This year, I made a commitment to participate in the Tableau Iron Viz. Each year there are feeder competitions with different topics, and the best visualizers from the feeder competitions get to compete at the conference on stage! I didn’t…
COVID-19 in the US
Without context, your numbers have little value. I can tell you that 500 people in my county have been affected with COVID – but is that a lot? How many people are in my county? How does that compare to…
Where We Went 2019
For the past few years I have been visualizing my travels – and for 2019, I got my husband to participate! This was an insane year of travel for both of us. I had the opportunity to visit 4 continents…