Data Visualization

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a thousand words or numbers or the combination of both, is most definitely worth a picture.

I’m not entirely sure how data visualization found me. Through my career at newspapers, I was lucky to work alongside the world’s best. Perhaps there. But the craft is not something I trained for, it is not something I did early on in my journalism career. And, the kicker: I HATE MATH (my parents, and my grades, can attest to this).

What I’ve come to discover is that I enjoy data from the conceptual vantage point of, “What is it really telling us?” and “How can we make sense of this, for regular people?” I enjoy twisting and turning the complexities into something that a user/reader will not only be informed by, but more importatly comprehend clearly, if not quickly and with elegance.

I guess the way the kids put it these days is, I’m good at the quantitative and the qualitative. And I’m very thankful for all the analysts in my life.