“As . . .As” Comparisons
Redesign Your Data An “as…as” comparison can be a powerful tool when you are trying to give your prospects a frame of reference, but your geography doesn’t neatly fit into standard statistical boundaries. Maybe you have created a strong...
Year-end Sale
Kate McEnroe On Demand Just in time for any year-end budget spends or planning for next year, I’ve put all the classes at Kate McEnroe OnDemand on sale from November 15 through December 31, 2023. Access is for the life of the...
A Place I’ll Remember – November 2023
A Place I'll Remember I’ve seen a lot of communities wrestle with the best ways to select and organize metrics, but TeamNeo’s Vibrant Economy Index had me intrigued enough to actually sign up for updates (!). The design of the home page is...
Comparisons – Metrics that Matter
Redesign Your Data More thoughts on visualizing community comparisons for economic developers – can you guess which I prefer? For air travel, maybe it depends on your circumstances, but in general I’d say if you are a smaller area...
A Place I’ll Remember – October 2023
A Place I'll Remember I highlight places doing interesting things related to economic development, so maybe Cook County, Illinois’ decision to allocate ARPA funds to relieve medical debt for 73,000 people seems unrelated. But...
How Many is Too Many Comparisons?
Redesign Your Data Is more always better in your data viz comparisons? Even if you come out on top of an economic development statistical comparison, there is a school of thought that says clutter dilutes impact. And really,...
A Place I’ll Remember – September 2023
A Place I'll Remember The Shenandoah Valley Partnership’s Virtual Cooking Class series reinforces how valuable consistency is in economic development programming and marketing. Over the past several years now, Jay Langston, his team, and ...
Zoom Salons are Open Again
accelerating execution Looks pretty, doesn’t it? In my mind, this is the setting for the Zoom salons I recently re-opened to hold space for some difficult conversations about workforce. During 2020 and 2021, I offered invitations to...