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.
7 Tips for Becoming a Better Presenter
Becoming a better presenter takes practice, patience and time. Here are 7 tips based on my own experience over the last few year.
Makeover Monday week 48, 2018: The cost of a night out
As we head into ‘silly season’ and are only a few days away from December with all its Christmas parties, having a look at the cost of a night out in different cities around the world gives us an appreciation for how much a bit of entertainment will set you back.
Makeover Monday week 47, 2018: Hours Americans Need to Work to Pay Their Mortgage
After a very active day of redecorating, cycling, running and (somehow) a yoga lesson, the only thing I can still move with some coordination are my fingers on the keyboard, so let’s get into this week’s Makeover Monday challenge.
Makeover Monday week 46, 2018: Diversity in Tech
Diversity, particularly gender diversity, in business has been a hot topic for the past few years and is something we shouldn’t stop talking about until we’ve made some progress.This week’s Makeover Monday dataset looks at the makeup of workforce of different tech companies over time.
Makeover Monday week 45, 2018: US Population Predictions 2016-2060
For this week’s Makeover Monday we’re analyzing US population prediction data. Population is a fascinating topic and having such a neat dataset available certainly helps to explore it further.
Makeover Monday week 44, 2018: Everybody poops
And then there is a dataset about poo. Who would have thought? But sometimes we need something as ordinary as that to keep things from getting too serious :-).
Makeover Monday week 43, 2018: Beer Prices at different Major League Baseball clubs
For this year’s TC Makeover, Andy chose to go down memory lane and picked his first ever Makeover Monday viz which was about Major League Baseball beer prices.
Food.
When we do something 3x a day, every day for our entire life, it seems like it’s an important thing and we should give it some attention, doesn’t it?
Makeover Monday week 42, 2018: Total Number of Women the House of Representatives 1917-2018
This week’s dataset looks at the percentage of women in the house of representatives.
Makeover Monday week 41, 2018: Five Year Cancer Survival Rates in America
Two weeks away from #TC18 and a huge #MakeoverMonday live event, we’re looking at Cancer Survival Rates.
Makeover Monday week 40, 2018: Avocado consumption
This week Andy gifted me a dataset about avocado prices, and it’s a nice and simple one.
Makeover Monday week 39, 2018: Visualizing Equality
Collaborations for Makeover Monday mean that we partner with a non-profit organization to help them crowd-source visualizations that support their mission and help them create awareness through data and analysis