David Prowse, who played Darth Vader in three of the Star Wars movies, passed away yesterday. I was fortunate to have had David as a guest at a Star Wars convention that I hosted back in 1997. I also was able to catch up with David at various toy and comic conventions over the years. […]
Source: Jones, Katie, The Most Loved Brands, by Generation, Visualcapitalist.com, March 4, 2020, https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-most-loved-brands/ Consumers, today, are offered an enormous amount of choice when it comes to buying into brands. This large volume of choices makes it increasingly difficult for brands to build an emotional connection with the consumers available. However, once those connections are […]
Lisa Rapp Bio Hi! I’m Lisa and I’m a Business Intelligence consultant from Frankfurt, Germany. I’ve only recently become a part of the awesome data viz community. Up until about a year ago, I was just finishing my PhD in Theoretical Physics. When I tell people I’m a physicist, they are often surprised to hear […]
Halloween may be a little different this year. So when you dress up, socially-distance, and snap those pictures, you’ll want to go for the maximum effect. Lens.com offers a wide range of FDA-approved, prescription Halloween contacts to take your Halloween look to an other-worldly level. Below is their infographic that will help you make sense of costume […]
Swati Dave Bio I come from an industrial township in India – Bokaro Steel City. So engineering was the most obvious choice while growing up. I was lucky to join the leading Software Consultancy firm in India – TCS. I had an inclination towards data and found myself a good fit in a MIS team […]
Kate Brown Bio I’m a Business Intelligence Manager and focus on creating, curating, and visualizing data. I fell into an analytics career and never imagined this would be a career path for me. I majored in History in college and have a minor in education. When I realized teaching was not what I wanted to […]
The United States Postal Service has lost mail sorting machines as an election during a pandemic draws closer. Louis DeJoy, the new postmaster general, is a former logistics executive and ally of President Trump. He has already removed numerous mail sorting machines, and reduced sorting capacity, as depicted in the map below. Click on the […]
Source: Domo, Data Never Sleeps 8.0, https://www.domo.com/learn/data-never-sleeps-8. In an increasingly digital world intensified by the outbreak of COVID-19, 2020 has introduced a new era where technology and data have taken more significant roles in our daily lives. As we learn to adapt to this new era, data never sleeps. Data is constantly being generated in […]
Amanda Patist Bio I’m currently working as a Self-Service Analytics Coach at Cargill, a job that I love, because it centers around helping people learn best practices in data visualization as well as the wider data pipeline and building up the internal data community. In a previous life, I was doing post-doctoral research in stem […]
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