What a Difference an Axis Makes
Redesign Your Data I’ve been thinking a lot about Labor Force Participation Rates in preparation for a couple of workforce class sessions I’m preparing, and as we nerds do, I got to playing with the data. As I was looking at...
A Place I’ll Remember – April 2023
A Place I'll Remember I’m a language-learning junkie, so I love Iowa’s decision to provide grant funding to employers implementing language learning programs in the workplace. $5 million in funding was announced by the governor for this...
Right Chart, Wrong Audience?
Redesign Your Data If you are working with data visualizations for economic development, remember that the perfect design isn’t perfect if you use it with the wrong audience. Take unemployment – a downward trending graph,...
A Place I’ll Remember – March 2023
A Place I'll Remember I love a good pilot program, so the Knoxville Chamber’s eKnox Digital Literacy program is right up my alley. To be fair, they reference #Chattanooga’s Digital Equity initiatives as inspiration, so...
A Few of My Least Favorite Things – #3
Redesign Your Data I have a real love-hate relationship with these bubble charts, at least as they are commonly seen and used in economic development. OK, really, mostly a hate relationship. That’s not because they are a bad way...
A Place I’ll Remember – February 2023
A Place I'll Remember Why Maryland? Because it’s going to take a bunch of experiments and a bunch of small victories to move the needle on workforce challenges, and they have some good examples in the pipeline. First, almost a year ago...
Getting ***** Done
accelerating execution Now, to balance out my discussion of some of my least favorite things, here’s one of my new favorite things. Problem is, I don’t know exactly what to call it to make sense to you – virtual...
A Few of my (Least) Favorite Things – #2
Redesign Your Data We are living in a world where 3-D has become so boring it’s time to move on to the meta-verse, but our human brains still process statistics best in good old-fashioned 2-D. Excel offers 3-D options for many of their...