I don’t think I will ever forget the first time that I made a presentation at work. It was just over a decade ago, I was just a few months into my employment at a company where I would work for the next eight years, and I was on the …
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I’ve been using an anecdote of late that Malcolm Gladwell supposedly related at a SAS user conference earlier this year: over the last 30 years, the challenge we face when it comes to using data to drive actions has fundamentally shifted from a challenge of “getting the right data” to …
I’m right at three months into my new gig, and, around the office, probably the most commonly known fact is, “He hates pie charts.” It’s not that I’ve exactly been standing at the elevator handing out leaflets explaining why pie charts are evil, but I have, apparently, chosen a couple …