Post by Jack Fernandes

For 17 years, I made sense of the world through logistics — routes, timing, the thousand moving pieces of getting something from point A to point B. These days I'm learning to make sense of it through data, and it turns out the instinct is the same: look closely, and the story finds you. Here's a story I found recently. Looking at adult diabetes across the US from 2019 to 2023, I expected a mixed picture — some states up, some down. Instead, it rose in nearly every single one. Only a few improved. D.C. stood out as a bright spot; places like Louisiana and Wyoming went the other way, fast. And the gap between the healthiest and least-healthy states seems to be widening. That's the part that hooked me. Numbers like these aren't really just numbers — they're people, communities, and decisions playing out over years. Seeing data from this angle has changed how I look at almost everything. Interactive version below if you'd like to explore it yourself 👇 https://lnkd.in/gNEJmA54 🫸 💉 #careerchange #dataanalytics #datavisualization