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Designing reports for people staring at screens

Designing reports for people staring at screens

Sit in any room with people and you’re likely to find a good number just sitting and looking at screens. Like it or not, our constant…
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We have weird evidence standards

We have weird evidence standards

In order to suggest that a program may or may not be working as designed, we tend to expect our quantitative evidence to carry a high…
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Advice you give but never take…the faster tortoise

Advice you give but never take…the faster tortoise

So I drew this cartoon during a time when I was steeped in federal contract work. The company I worked for at the time was pretty…
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On Zombies and Evaluation

On Zombies and Evaluation

You have to respect Zombies.
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Better to be a one tricky pony than a no trick pony.

Better to be a one tricky pony than a no trick pony.

Is there something in your personality that drives you towards doing different things? Well rounded is great, but can also be dangerous…
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Maybe you have bad taste. Don’t let the HiPPO ruin your work.

Maybe you have bad taste. Don’t let the HiPPO ruin your work.

I have always found arguments about things like color choice and wording choice to be pretty boring. At least when it comes to things that…
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Lazy ineffective social media report dissemination

Lazy ineffective social media report dissemination

If we really believed in the power of data and evidence, we would do more.
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Chris Lysy
Anti-social network analysis

Anti-social network analysis

I was reading a story the other day about the loneliness of millennials.
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Chris Lysy
Racist Algorithms

Racist Algorithms

The problem with our computer systems getting better and better at anticipating human behavior is that human beings are incredibly flawed.
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Chris Lysy
It’s a man designed world, inspired by @CCriadoPerez

It’s a man designed world, inspired by @CCriadoPerez

“The tacit assumption is that the 50th-percentile male is the average person, skipping over the other half of the population entirely…
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Hiring Data Scientists

Hiring Data Scientists

I was spending a lot of time reading job ads for data science positions when I created this cartoon.
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Chris Lysy
The problem with freelancing

The problem with freelancing

There are some things that don’t work well from a freelancing perspective.
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Chris Lysy
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