A team that understands its data systems uses them, and a team that doesn’t works around them.

Every organization has a data system, whether it is a database, a spreadsheet, or a paper form on a clipboard.

These tools and articles help you document how your data moves, decide what you collect and why, keep your systems clean, and ask your team to help build and improve the systems they use.

Resources | Downloads
Data Documentation Template
Data Documentation Template

Document the analysis. Preserve the reasoning. Keep the knowledge.

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Data Spring Cleaning Kit
Data Spring Cleaning Kit

Tips and tricks to address the most common "dirty data" challenges.

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Newsletters
Database report writing
Database report writing

You know what you want out of your database. You can see it in your mind's eye, but the system keeps returning numbers that do not make sense. Read this edition of Data-ish before you throw your computer out the window.

This is for anyone, regardless of the systems you use, because the thinking behind designing a good report is system-agnostic.

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Data Viz + AI
Data Viz + AI

AI will generate data visualizations faster. Whether faster means better depends on whether you know the story you want to tell before you open the tool.

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AI in Analysis
AI in Analysis

AI will not save you time on evaluation if you do not know how to interrogate what it gives you. Without a human with a plan at the helm, AI could cost organizations more than it saves.

Navigating data alone is hard. This month, we are launching the Data-ish community, a space to go deeper than the newsletter.

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