i am the co-author of the children’s book A is for Analytics. The book is an illustrated children’s book, teaching analytics terminology to young kids. Now kids can confidently explain what “Normal Distribution” means, or what a “Trended Graph” looks like…and easily impress your friends and family.

While i’ve been actively doing a lot of work at the higher education level, we felt education about data needed to start at a much younger age. And so the idea to create a children’s book was born. We believe that if we can get children interested in data and analytics at a very young age, we have the ability to create a new generation of critical thinkers that can help take back our world from all the bad actors who have used data for evil rather than good. 

While the book is targeted at early readers, it’s designed in such a way that it will be entertaining and educational for people of all ages. We’ve taken key analytics terms for each letter in the alphabet and paired the letter with a formal definition, a more child friendly explanation, and a corresponding illustration to help the reader visualize the concept.