I've posted a number of times about Pew Research articles. Well, not the articles exactly, but rather the visuals they contain. To be honest, it's rare that I read the actual article. I scan the headlines as they hit my inbox and if something piques my interest, I follow the link and scroll through the article, not reading, but taking a discerning look at the graphs. Check out this post for makeovers of two Pew Research graphs on the topic of women bosses.

In this post, I makeover less-than-ideal visuals from a recent USA Today graphic summarizing diversity stats across a number of Bay Area tech companies and discuss my design thought process when doing so.

When asked to write a guest blog post for this month's focus on storytelling on the Tableau Public Blog, I spent some time reflecting: if I had just a single lesson to share, what's the #1 piece of advice I'd give in this space? I'd boil it down to three simple words: lead with story. The following is the guest post I authored.