The Data School

From the “Data but Make it Personal” series – Part 8 When the Data Doesn’t Make Sense (But Matters Most) In every dataset, there are...

From the “Data but Make it Personal” series – Part 6 Why good design makes great dashboards possible   I love a beautiful dashboard. A...

Beyond the Rating: The Business of Critically Acclaimed Films When we were handed an 8GB IMDb dataset and told to find a story worth telling,...

Decades of Clues: How Crosswords Reflect Their Times   When you think about crosswords, you probably picture a quiet Sunday morning, a cup of coffee,...

From the “Data but Make it Personal” series – Part 6 When Your Data Level is Sabotaging Your Analysis   If you’ve been following this...

Holiday Hazards (2020-2024) A Dashboard Full of Bad Decisions   If there’s one thing that American TV does consistently, it’s remind you that holidays are...

Battle of the Giants: Does Size Really Matter?   I know absolutely nothing about basketball. All I really know is that basketball players are tall....

Broadway Box Office: A Tale of Two Shows For the first day of Dashboard Week, we were tasked with web-scraping data from the Playbill website...

*From the “Data but Make it Personal” series – Part 5 A SQL Project Survival Story When you’re in training, you don’t choose your projects...

*From the “Data but Make it Personal” series – Part 4 Why Less is More   Starting with Intention One of the most satisfying feelings...