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ChatGPT - First Impressions

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Note: The following post reflects my own views, not necessarily the views of my employer.

I deleted my browser bookmarks and emails. I do this instead.

Over the last few years, I have been finding ways to combat feelings of overwhelm. A big part of is has to do with setting up systems that work and are sustainable for my…

Exploring Everyday Possibilities in Markdown

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It has been over a month since I purchased a license of iA Writer. Regrettably, I have not spent time exploring this fantastic tool as much as I should have as I was busy…

Posit 2022 Table Contest Entry: Construction Spending

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I recently came across the Posit 2022 Table Contest and decided to participate for the first time. I am relatively newer to {R} but not new to data visualization, so I…

How to Verify your Quarto Blog on Mastodon

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I first signed up for a Mastodon social account a few weeks ago to more closely follow the data science community. So far, I am really enjoying the highly curated (ad free)…

WordPress to Quarto Migration

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Three years ago, I made a plan to create a portfolio and blog website with a custom domain. It was late December of 2019 when jisellhowe.com was first launched on WordPress.

Learning Tips & Tricks - Python

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As someone who loves to learn and read about all sorts of topics, I have intentionally placed myself in the “beginner’s spot” many times over the years. In any project I…

Picture Perfect Penguins - Dynamic Tableau Shapes

Data visualizations are great, but what if you have a viewer who might not be as familiar with the subject matter? Well, guess what. Tableau can help! By using shapes in…

Bringing it into Perspective with Shapes

Have you ever seen percentages for a population or for those who took a survey and wondered just how many people the percentage was talking about? Or maybe the number seems…

It’s the Little Things - Small Multiples

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The Data community is great for seeing all sorts of artistic and informative displays of information. One such display I see fairly often is in the form of small multiples…

Personal Project Spotlight - Constructing New York

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The thing I seemed to notice about the MakeoverMonday data visualization learning exercises is that they seem to deal with fairly clean data and supporting articles right…

Welcome to the Races - Animate Your Line Graphs

This week’s data visualization exercise with MakeoverMonday is about comparing data over time. In this case, the exercise involved looking at an existing data visualization…

Breakfast Tableau - Multi-colored Waffle Charts and Pancakes

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I’ve learned a lot from regular data visualization practice every Sunday morning over 16 straight weeks so far. MakeoverMonday even has a submissions tracker that shows…

Jamming with Parameters and More in Tableau

Wouldn’t it be neat if you had a lot of data to present and wanted to give the viewer the power to explore? Parameters in Tableau can help make that happen.

Don’t Stop Me Now - Animating Data Insights

About a month ago, Tableau fully introduced data #VizAnimations outside of beta in its 2020.1 release. I thought it would be really fun to try animating a data set that had…

Sankey Charts - Creating a Fun Slide in Tableau Public

A Sankey diagram is a data visualization technique that shows flow from one point to another. The flows help show connections between a beginning and a possible end.

Waffles Anyone? An Alternative to Pie Charts

As popular as pie charts may be in many different settings, they sure seem to have a bad reputation in the data visualization world.

License to Simplify - Why Less is More in Data Viz

Ever heard the phrase “less is more”? It sounds great in theory, but it can actually be pretty hard to implement when presenting data.

And Action! How to Invite the Viewer to Explore

One of the cool things about data visualizations is that they can be interactive to the viewer. Anything from tool tip text to specific things that happen when you hover or…

Lollipop Charts - A Sweet Data Viz Technique

Have you ever combined multiple seemingly unrelated interests into one project? I personally love it when I can do that. Today’s inspiration combines watercolor paint…

Jitterplots - An Easy Way to Make Your Insights Stand Out

Jitter plots are a great way to make data more visible for actionable insight.

The Quest for the Perfect BIM Project

In November 2017, I was invited to take part in a panel at Autodesk University on standardizing BIM content. There were “stakeholders” represented, such as an architect…

The Benefits of Data Visualization in the AEC Industry - Pt. 1

Data Visualization is one of my newest skills I am working on currently. Some of you may know that I recently completed a Coursera course called Data Visualization and…

The Benefits of Data Visualization in the AEC Industry - Pt. 2

Data visualization can do more than just tell us what is in a set of files for BIM management, as we saw in Part 1 of this blog post.