Fellow Tableau Social Ambassador, #DataPride Tableau User Group co-lead, #DataFamCon co-lead, and DEI evangelist — You can find all of the previous (and future!) installments of Meet the DataFam and — if this is your first one — learn a little more about how it works here. ⏪The Background I’m so grateful for Lawrence’s presence in the DataFam. He embodies my favorite quality in another human — authenticity. Authenticity helps foster a community that values our shared experiences, provides mutual support, and encourages candid conversations. …

Manage expectations by responding rather than reacting — If you’ve been a data practitioner for longer than a week, someone has come up to your desk — if your corporate overlords have forced you back into an office, except now you don’t even have your own desk, or if you worked in an office pre-pandemic — and asked…

Super easy, super yummy, superfood twist on plain old oatmeal — Golden Milk Oatmeal Prep time: 3 minutes Cook time: 7 minutes Total time: 10 minutes I created this recipe as an experiment when I didn’t have the will to go grocery shopping, needed breakfast, didn’t want plain oatmeal, and was out of the ingredients for my go-to oatmeals, the Forks Over Knives Meal…

Three practical strategies for handling food challenges common amongst neurodiverse individuals — Like many women, I was diagnosed with ADHD later than my male peers, then surprised to find out that certain tendencies I thought were uniquely mine, or unrelated to ADHD, are actually known characteristics of the neurodiverse brain. A complicated relationship with food is one of these tendencies. Many ADHDers…

Tableau Public Ambassador, #DiversityinData Co-lead, and Information Lab Italia analyst — You can find all of the previous (and future!) installments of Meet the DataFam and — if this is your first one — learn a little more about how it works here. The Background Three things immediately come to mind when I think of Saverio — his signature dark mode visualizations with very intentional use of other colors, his focus on social justice and equality topics such as climate change, mental health, and gender, and his authenticity. …

Almost-chemist and accidental analyst turned dataviz wiz — You can find all of the previous (and future!) installments of Meet the DataFam and — if this is your first one — learn a little more about how it works here. ⏪ The Background I might as well just start copying and pasting the part about how I first met the subject of Meet the DataFam on Twitter, because of course I did. My involvement in the Tableau community started a little before the start of the🦠COVID-19 pandemic. Nicole Klassen’s work stood out to…

Bridget Cogley & Vidya Setlur, Wiley (2022) — It is January here in Tampa, Florida, and–in January in Tampa, anyway– it could be 🥶45 degrees🥶 or it could be 🔥85 degrees🔥on any given day. It has been both this year. …

Just one day after another round of layoffs at Salesforce shook my beloved Tableau community, and just five days into the new year (“I’m looking forward to all the great things we’ll build together this year,” my manager said in a new year’s greeting via Slack just a few days…

Stamen Design’s gorgeous, free basemaps at risk, #MapPromptMonday starts next week, and Sarah Battersby speaks at the Tampa Bay Tableau User Group in January — My Dad might be partially to thank (or blame? 😂) for my career in data visualization. In 1984, when I was a first-grader at Immaculate Heart of Mary, he bought our family the original Apple Macintosh computer. (I’m currently clacking away at my new, satisfyingly noisy Daydream Mint-colored Logitech POP…