Nudges, Ideas and a sprinkle of career advice
This is where you’ll read from me. It’s a mix of nudges that encourage you to take the next bold step, ideas that help you make a change and advice so you can avoid the mistakes I made along the way.
From my keyboard to you. No ChatGPT involved, just a bunch of honest writing, usually done in the morning hours before the world wakes up.
I hope you enjoy it and I’d love to hear from you, so feel free to comment on these posts.
#MakeoverMonday | Week 53 |2019
So it has arrived, Andy’s last week as co-host of #MakeoverMonday. After 4 years of running this project (first with Andy Cotgreave, then with me), he is handing over the baton to Charlie to focus on other life projects.
#MakeoverMonday | Week 52 | 2019: Estimated Christmas spending by concept
My last dataset for this year falls into Christmas week, so after a little convincing from Andy I set aside the data I had originally planned to use and picked a simple Christmas spending dataset from the Deloitte Christmas Survey 2019.
#MakeoverMonday | Week 51 | 2019: NBA Defensive Ratings
For this week, Andy chose a Basketball dataset about NBA defensive ratings with a great visualization from FiveThirtyEight
#MakeoverMonday | Week 50 | 2019: Biggest Fast Food Chains in America
For week 50 of Makeover Monday in 2019, we’re analysing the revenue of America’s biggest fast food chains. Thanks to Andy for finding the viz and the data when all my search efforts resulted in terrible results.
#MakeoverMonday | Week 49 | 2019: How much does union membership benefit America’s workers?
week 49, Andy picked a dataset about union membership, from an article by Mona Chalabi, who writes for the Guardian and is a recognised journalist who uses data visualisation and data art to make information more accessible.
#MakeoverMonday | Week 48 | The Squirrel Census Fur Color Map
Since moving to London, squirrels have become my favourite sight. Maybe even my favourite animal.So when I came across this dataset about squirrels in New York’s Central Park, I just had to use it for Makeover Monday
#MakeoverMonday | Week 47 | 2019: Smartphone Ownership Among Youth Is on the Rise
Given the buzz of #data19 last week, we’re working with a small and simple dataset for week 47, so we can all have some extra time to catch up on the things we missed at home.
You don’t have to do it all
This one is for the perfectionists, the introverts and those who struggle to say no to stuff. It’s just as much a note to self.
#MakeoverMonday | Week 46| 2019: Youth Literacy Rates
#data19 has arrived and with it a live #MakeoverMonday session with A LOT of people. We want to use that opportunity of getting everyone in a room with their ideas and skills to tackle a topic that is very relevant today. Literacy and how literacy rates differ across countries, ages and gender.
#MakeoverMonday | Week 45 | 2019: Las Vegas Convention Attendance and Visitor Traffic
For week 45, Andy selected a dataset about Las Vegas. It contains a number of metrics, including visitor numbers, gaming revenue, occupancy rates, etc.There are quite a few stories in the data.
MakeoverMonday | Week 44 | 2019: World Cities Ranked by Annual Sunshine Hours
Before winter really takes hold, let’s look at some sunshine hours in cities around the world.
Makeover Monday | Week 43 | 2019: Generational effects
Content warning: This post and the data visualisations within it focus on the topic of suicide. If you are not comfortable with the topic, please don’t feel obliged to continue.