In academia, and in companies with academic leanings, there are events known as Job Talks. A Job Talk is one component of job interviews for professors, researchers, and the like. In exchange for free food of varying quality, current employees…
We’re living in a virtual world, and Patti Sanchez is here to help. I received Sanchez’s book, Presenting Virtually: Communicate and Connect with Online Audiences, as a (much wanted!) Christmas gift. I had some down time in January, and what…
When I was a kid, we had this book of classic fairy tales. In the table of contents, each title and page number was accompanied by an approximate reading time. My mom typically had about an 8-minute threshold…I have wonderful…
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…
When I’m watching a slide presentation, no matter how distracted I am, there is one phrase that will always snap me to attention: “You probably can’t read this, but…” I put this in a category with such phrases as, “This…
Despite having an education and career that are strongly rooted in science, art has been a consistent thread in my life. I can’t remember an era when I wasn’t creating something…finger painting in preschool, cross-stitching in grade school, picking up…