When I took a data visualization workshop with Edward Tufte circa 2007, he talked about the PowerPoint slide responsible for the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia. That was a case of a slide obscuring critical information, which resulted in…
My husband and parents are fans of the modern western TV series, Yellowstone. It's not really my jam, but I've caught enough of it for this Facebook post to snag my attention: So, yes...for all you gentlemen out there who…
In this blog post, I talked about researchers' fear of leaving information out of their research communication products. This week, I'm digging a little deeper into the specifics of what types of information (in my opinion) are and aren't OK…
You know those suspense stories where a character is scared of the wrong thing? Like when a cop is tracking a serial killer, and she’s pretty sure it’s the creepy taxi driver, but it ends up being her own hot,…
Before I started Data Soapbox, I was a practicing researcher. I designed research studies and collected, analyzed, and reported the data. As time went on, I got more and more interested in the reporting part of my job, to the…