Recently, a colleague asked if I could provide examples of good data visualizations to share with an academic research center. Thanks to widespread education and evangelism, there are many good (or, at least, not terrible) examples of dataviz in modern…
I love (love, love, love) reviewing communication products. I love critically evaluating whether writing and visuals are meeting their objectives and, if not, developing potential solutions. That's a huge part of why I started Data Soapbox and why it's one…
In last week's post, I mused about how Methods is typically the best-written manuscript section because it has a fill-in-the-blank, Mad Libs type of structure. That structure makes it comparatively easy to convey the information a reader needs and expects…
As I recently mentioned , prior to and since founding Data Soapbox, I’ve reviewed a *ton* of journal manuscripts. If I’m reviewing for a client or colleague, chances are, that draft is going back with a lot of (gently-phrased) suggestions…
About a year ago, a friend, former coworker, and all-around awesome person posted the following on LinkedIn: Academics: Have you ever hired someone to help write manuscripts? Not a long-term post-doc, but a short-term consultant to help write up papers…
In late March, an economics professor Tweeted about his academic dilemma: His manuscript had just been rejected from a journal for the seventh time. Should he give up on the paper? Last time I checked, the Tweet had 107 comments…