Author: Wendy Gilbert
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Cultivate Wellbeing & Resiliency
This 2018 graduation season is difficult for me for many reasons. There is little-known local news reporting that two high school students ending their own lives just days before graduation, following the well-known national news that two public figures committing suicide the week before. I know families that bear the same grief from losing their…
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Disinformation: Do you know when you’re being had?
A few days ago, Abijeet Nath and Nilopal Das were killed when they stopped in a village in Assam state in India to ask for directions. They were attacked by a mob that suspected they may be child abductors. Abijeet and Nilopal were the latest victims in a series of deaths in India related to…
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GDPR: Who Owns Your Data?
I attended a conference by the Data Warehouse Institute (TDWI) last October. In one of the presentations, Gerald Hopkins talked about GDPR. It was the first time I had ever heard of it, and Gerald basically told us that if we were doing business in Europe and hadn’t started working on GDPR we should be…
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Hilarious Real Life Graphs
If you haven’t run across Matt Shirley yet, stop and take a look! His daily, hand-drawn graphs are brilliantly simple. They distill emotionally ambiguous situations like the Sunday blues into minimal charts that everyone instantly “gets.”
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Is it Your Turn to Speak?
The first time I had to do a really big presentation at work, I was ready — I knew my material, I had a strong message, and it was my chance to show off my skills to my co-presenter, our group’s Vice President. But halfway through the presentation I looked down and was mortified to…
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Fighting Racism with Visualization
How do you confront something pervasive yet ignored or invisible till experienced? W.E.B. Du Bois is best known for his civil rights work and scholarship, but his pioneering data visualizations around race inequity are drawing more attention as visualization becomes a profession. His visualizations for the 1900 Exposition in Paris are stunningly artistic, minimalist, and…
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Avoiding the Wrath of Pele
Aerial pictures of the city of Seattle have changed a lot over the last 10 years – with Amazon moving in and the ongoing building booms the skyline is constantly evolving. But a consistent image in the backdrop to this skyline is Mount Rainier, looming large in the pictures despite being about 60 miles away…
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Physical vs. Electronic Scrum Boards
An agile principle is to prefer face to face communication – “the most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.” This can be challenging in teams with flexible working options or who aren’t co-located. My company prides itself in its flexible work policy and supports flexible work arrangements but…
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Agile Data Warehousing Compared to Software Development
The best scrum teams are those with team members who are fungible, i.e., capable of mutual substitution. This is easier in some teams and organizations than others. In a perfect world, your scrum team would be made up of people who can analyse, map, model, code, test, etc. However, in most teams, especially those just…
BI Over Beers 