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.
Makeover Monday | Week 8 | 2019: Which States produce the most wind energy?
This week we look at how much wind energy is produced in different US states
Makeover Monday | Week 7 | 2019: President Trump’s “Executive Time”
The president of the United States is a never ending source of news and analysis-worthy headlines. The recent leak of Trump’s daily schedule provided us with a nice dataset to work with for Makeover Monday and there was no hesitation to use it for this week’s challenge.
Makeover Monday | Week 6 | 2019: How Chinese New Year Compares With Thanksgiving
Sure, there is a super bowl going on, but this is my week, not Andy’s so instead of football we’re looking at Chinese New Year’s spending and how it compares to that for Thanksgiving.
Makeover Monday | Week 5 | 2019: Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI)
For week 5 we use data from the European Commission about the Digital Economy and Society Index, measuring digital performance for European countries. The original viz looks like this: What works well: Countries are sorted in descending order from highest to lowest...
Makeover Monday | Week 4 | 2019: Energy Use at 10 Downing St
I enjoy stumbling across interesting datasets and visualisations and this week that takes us to London, more specifically to 10 Downing St where the Prime Minister lives. The data contains electricity usage for the year 2017 and the original viz from Carbon Culture...
Makeover Monday | Week 3 | 2019: Federal Minimum Wage in the US
Week 3 is upon us and we’re moving from Freedom of the Press to minimum wages in the US.
Makeover Monday | Week 2 |2019: How free is the Press?
For this week’s Makeover Monday I chose a dataset about freedom of the press because this has been such an important topic across the world in the past few years.
Makeover Monday | Week 1 | 2019: NHL Attendance
And here we go again. Week 1 once more, now my third ‘week 1’ as a co-host of #MakeoverMonday.
Makeover Monday week 52, 2018: Christmas Spending
And here we are, week 52 of 2018. Another year has come to an end. It’s year 3 for #MakeoverMonday, the social data project, year 2 for me being part of this project and I get to look back on two eventful and exciting years of driving this project for the dataviz community.
Makeover Monday week 51, 2018: London Bus Safety Performance
This week’s dataset is about the performance of London buses on safety metrics, looking at incidents and injuries involving buses.
Makeover Monday week 50, 2018: Land use by food type
It is week 50 already and where has this year gone? The 50th week of Makeover Monday in 2018 and another opportunity to improve the way we visualize and analyze data.
Makeover Monday week 49, 2018: Women Constructors in the Short Era
What a random dataset: how many women were constructors of crosswords during the Era of Will Shortz.