Welcome to Datadoodle, where stories go to work
Datadoodle. That’s data for data, and doodle for stories at work. Some people say that stories are only what you tell your children. But we do that because stories are the one of the most basic elements of community. Storytelling starts early and goes to the end.
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Now Datadoodle comes to you
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The legacy Datadoodle and the new Datadoodle
Datadoodle has been through several phases. From the start, in 2007, I’ve covered emergent trends, people, and exciting vendors, always with an eccentric, human-centered point of view. In 2008, I was the only media/industry analyst to cover Tableau’s first conference. I covered the emergence of Lyza, the famous app by Scott Davis that lifted off a few years too soon. (He left the industry and is now happily designing and building yachts.) I also covered the emergence of “cowboy” analysts, who’d been set loose by Tableau, Qlik, and other new sprouts. Still later, I began covering storytelling, the real kind.
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