Are you ready to roll up your sleeves and dig into some of your data? Of course you are! Let’s start with your sales data. Sales Data — But Not $$$ Dollars and cents are important, don’t get me wrong! They’re usually the first thing we think of when we think of sales numbers —… Read More
OK, now you’ve got your questions, and you’ve got your available data. It’s time to put them side by side and see what’s going on. This is where the fun begins! Profit We’ll start at the top. What is the biggest question? I’m going to take a wild guess here that profit is one of… Read More
Congratulations on NOT looking at your data last week! It can be harder than it sounds, but hopefully it gave you the space to think about what your key questions are. Those are going to be increasingly important as we do more and more with your data in the next few weeks. This week, you… Read More
I was invited to speak at this week’s TechWomen Breakfast about “Tips To Be a Savvy Consumer of Data.” I had a wonderful time talking with over 40 attendees about biases, mean vs. median, and how important it is to keep your eye on the Y axis! During and since there were a few questions… Read More
I recently was fortunate to co-moderate a discussion on race and ethnicity in New Hampshire via the New Hampshire Community Conversation that I host with my partner, Tiffany Eddy. At one point a guest, Rogers Johnson, mentioned the demographic profile of blacks and other minorities in New Hampshire, namely, that apart from the fact that… Read More
Join me and my colleague Tiffany Eddy as we host a virtual town meeting this Thursday night. Our focus is on the food service industry here in NH, and our guests are Amy LaBelle, founder and owner of LaBelle Winery, and Tom Boucher, CEO of Great NH Restaurants (T-Bones – CJ’s – Copper Door). Watch… Read More
Right now, we’re all struggling. Our families, ourselves, our jobs, our businesses….this coronavirus pandemic caught us all off-guard. One way to navigate through the uncertainty is to use your data as a guide. I’m offering a free, 30-minute consultation to businesses and organizations that want to use their data as a tool to figure out… Read More
I speak in my daily life about numbers, about the power of numbers, about interpreting numbers, and about the power of graphs and charts to let us really “see” what the numbers are saying. I draw upon experts such as Edward Tufte, Cole Nusbaumer Knaflic, Nathan Yau, Alberto Cairo, and Steven Few, among others to… Read More
There’s more and more data created every year. Businesses are generating more and more data every day. Data about their customers, their products, their employees. Business owners are surrounded by data, but they can’t seem to make use of it. Case in point: In the 2019 PwC Annual Global CEO Survey, CEOs voiced how dissatisfied… Read More
The National Student Clearinghouse’s Research Center has just released the Fall 2019 estimated U.S. enrollments in postsecondary education, and for the nation as a whole, the news isn’t good. The NSC estimates that enrollment has decreased 1.3% from last year. Since the NSC began producing this analysis in 2012, enrollments have dropped each year. In… Read More