Medical Co-Pays in Prison

Iron Quest: “a monthly community-led data visualization project…participants have a calendar month to source a suitable data set and then design, build, and submit a data visualization. Every visualization should aim to showcase best practice & skill in design, storytelling & analysis.” January’s Iron Quest Challenge was in collaboration with #ProjectHealthViz, founded by Lindsay Betzendahl, […]

Iron Quest: A Journey On the History of Mole

Iron Quest: “a monthly community-led data visualization project…participants have a calendar month to source a suitable data set and then design, build, and submit a data visualization. Every viz should aim to showcase best practice & skill in design, storytelling & analysis.” Created by Sarah Bartlett and truly community-led with other data professionals, this is […]

Collab & Code: Tableau

I’m an amateur, a data visualization enthusiast who experiments, loves to learn, and participate in community data viz challenges. In February, I learned about Tableau and really fell in love with this tool. My favorite thing about being an amateur in Tableau is that there’s an active community encouraging you, sharing their work, and providing […]

Makeover Monday Week 43

Content warning: this will explore death by suicide. If you are at risk please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in the U.S. is 1-800-273-825. This week’s #Makeover Monday was a somber topic about death by suicide in England and Wales. Suicide is caused by self-directed harm with an intent to die, and it is […]

Mom + Baby Datapalooza: Visualizing Infant Mortality in Indiana

Challenge Indiana HIMSS in coordination with FSSA, ISDH, MPH, Regenstrief Institute, and KSM Consulting conducted a data visualization and analytics challenge. This competition focused on visualizing infant mortality in Indiana to ultimately improve health outcomes for Indiana’s mothers and infants. Process Together with my partner, Aubrey Xiong, we focused on data storytelling to visualize infant […]

Ingrid’s Journey: Strategy, Lessons, and Gratitude

Each individual goes through distinct steps, decisions, and strategies to arrive at their desired career. Throughout the past few months I have reflected on the next step of my career, grown my network, and relied on my community. I’ll be sharing my strategy and lessons learned as I’ve thoughtfully considered the next step in my […]

Gaming Platforms, Makeover Monday Week 35

This week’s #Makeover Monday looks at trends in gaming platforms — it’s estimated that 2.3 billion global gamers will purchase $138 billion on games this year. Although PC, console, and mobile games have increased in revenue, mobile games are surpassing both in market share. More information on the data provided is here. The original visualization […]

My Process for Building Data Visualizations

Story by Data offers weekly challenges in the area of data. I am excited to find out about the challenges and participated for the first time this week. Weekly challenge: Describe your process or work-flow for creating data visualizations / dashboards Story by Data My process of creating data visualizations is still evolving and iterating, […]

Iteration: MM Viz Week 34 – American Cellphone Use

Makeover Monday this week produced really great visualizations on the survey data for American cellphone use. As I was watching the webinar there were common themes on improving visualizations this week. Remove clutter and focus on the data/viz. Keep this in mind, rather than filling it with many graphics/pictures. Create visualizations that are compact so […]

Makeover Monday Week 34: American Cellphone Use

This week my analysis focused on findings from a survey which looked at cell phone use among U.S. parents and teens. This data is provided by the Pew Research Center — more information about this survey is here, and additional research about how often we swipe, touch, click our phones is here. Three facts stood […]