A VIZ APART

​

explore & explain 2024 | YouTube livestream mini-workshop 

In this mini-workshop, I tackled a case study where the audience plays the role of an analyst who has been tasked to plumb a complex data set, to find out if your company has the potential to be more efficient, profitable, and aligned with the executive team’s overall goals. I led the audience through the entire analytic process step-by-step, from investigating data in a live dashboard, through using graphs of various levels of complexity to find and refine insights, to ultimately delivering findings and recommendations via an engaging and compelling presentation. 1,500 people registered to attend the livestream, and as of the end of 2024, the recording had more than 25K views.

​

#narrative 2020 | London Tableau User Group 

This presentation talks about the use of narratives in communicating analytic insights: how to create one, why your dashboard needs one, and why bad ones stick around (even when the data proves they’re wrong). Unfortunately, the video for this presentation is not available.

​​

Beyond Design: Secrets for Creating Engaging and Effective Information Experiences (with Layla Manheim) 2020 | SF Bay Tableau User Group; 2019 | Tableau Conference Las Vegas, Phoenix Tableau User Group, Boston Tableau User Group 

In this session, two Tableau Visionaries* well-known for their design expertise will outline an approach to making exceptionally successful visual products in Tableau. You'll hear about how great designs are built, what decisions designers are making during the creative process, and, most importantly, how EVERYONE who uses Tableau can become better and more consistent designers. If you’ve ever lacked confidence in your “design skills,” this session is for you, because the biggest secret to be revealed is that success in dataviz creation lies … beyond design.

*The Tableau Visionary program was called the "Tableau Zen Master" program in the two different years that I was selected and honored to be a part of it, including at the time this presentation was created. With the decision to rename the program in 2021, Tableau encouraged all previous honorees to retroactively switch to using the new nomenclature, which I have happily done here.

​

You Are An Artist: How And Why to Get Started Making Public Visualizations 2019 | DC Data Visualization Meetup; 2018 | Tableau Conference New Orleans 

Whether it’s for fun, for practice, for activism, or for pure curiosity, creating your own visualizations and putting them out in public has a tremendous upside—for you, your company, and the world. It doesn't have to be scary! In this talk, we will discuss various facets of public visualizations such as how to start vizzing in public, common design pitfalls to watch for, how to get comfortable with not succeeding, and much more.

​

​

​

​

The Benefits of Finding (and Being) a Tableau Mentor (with Alicia Bembenek) 2018 | Tableau Conference New Orleans, DC Tableau User Group

You've decided you want to up your Tableau game, and you think you could use a mentor to help you. Great! A formalized, focused mentoring relationship can accelerate your professional development no matter what your level of expertise, from absolute beginner to seasoned veteran. After all, you don't need to go it alone: a good mentor can be an advocate, a facilitator, a guide, a teacher, and a coach. But to get the most out of your mentorship, it takes a commitment and investment in the process—on the part of both the mentor and the mentee. In this session, you'll hear about the specific benefits of finding—and being—a mentor, how to find the right mentoring relationship for you, and hear mentorship success stories from the Tableau community.

​

Truth, Beauty, Data, and You 2018 | Tableau Fringe Festival EMEA 

An online conference talk about the power and responsibility of public expression.