About Analytics Made Accessible

Transform your data into actionable insights through meaningful analysis and story-driven visualizations. Analytics Made Accessible provides consultations and training designed to help people communicate their data more effectively.

Meet Our Founder

Ama Nyame-Mensah is a designer, social scientist, and founder of Analytics Made Accessible. She helps clients transform their data into actionable, story-driven insights through meaningful analysis and effective data visualization. When not working with clients, she blogs about data presentation, teaches folks to tinker with programming languages, and empowers people to use data for social analysis.

  • Audience-Centered Design: Designing Data Visualizations with Your Audience in Mind. (Invited Talk for The Council of the Great City Schools' Curriculum, Research, and Instructional Leaders Meeting)

    Critiquing Data Visualizations: An Interactive Panel Session. (Invited Panel for Modal Learning with Steve Wexler).

    Becoming a Data Professional. (Guest Speaker at the Philadelphia Education Fund’s Scholars Advantage program; Slides)

    From Clutter to Clarity: 8 Strategies for Telling Better Data Stories. (Webinar for the Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs; Handout)

    From Clutter to Clarity: 8 Tips for Better Data Storytelling. (Invited Keynote for Modal Learning)

    Beyond the Bar: Alternative Methods for Visualizing Change Between Two Data Points. (Invited Talk for the 2022-23 Evaluation Café Series, The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University; Slides, Talk)

    Data & Discrimination. (Interview with Dr. Gertrude Nonterah for The Bold Ph.D.; YouTube Video)

    Can Quantitative Methods Answer Critical Questions? (Invited Guest Lecture at the American University, Quantitative Research in Education course; Slides)

    From learn-R to teach-R: Anexpert panel on effective R instruction. (Invited panel for R-Ladies Philly; Slides)

    Introduction to Item Response Theory. (Invited Guest Lecture at the University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. program in Social Welfare Advanced Research Methods course; Slides)

    Data for Social Impact: Challenges & Opportunities. (Invited panel for the University of Pennsylvania, Nonprofit Leadership program)

  • Research Associate

    University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education, Penn Child Research Center, & The Penn Futures Project, Sep. 2019 - Dec. 2021

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy & Practice, Aug. 2020 - Aug. 2021

    Research Scientist

    Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, and Mixed Methods (ICQCM), Jan. 2020 - Aug. 2021

    Postdoctoral Fellow & Lecturer

    University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy & Practice, Aug. 2019 - May 2020

  • University of Pennsylvania

    Ph.D. Social Welfare, 2019

    University of Delaware

    M.A. Urban Affairs & Public Policy, 2013

    B.A. Economics, 2011

What Are Clients Saying?

  • [Ama's] data visualization was beyond what I believed could be imagined with limited understanding of our work and fiscal reporting. We now have 2 workable templates that will help us express our data in an understandable and cohesive manner, to board members and others.

    Anna J., Chief Financial Officer

  • [Ama] is an excellent listener with a deep understanding of the nuances and complexities of educational data. This combination, along with her superb data visualization skills, has helped to expand our organizational thinking and our ability to analyze, visualize and, perhaps most importantly, USE our data in the service of program improvement.

    Marguerite Lukes, Director of Research and Innovation

  • Working with Ama was an exceptional experience from Day One. She is extremely organized, asks thoughtful questions, and emphasizes a collaborative approach. She also is adept at balancing creative design with the need to clearly articulate data - resulting in an accessible, easy-to-understand product. I was very impressed with the process she laid out to help us think through our goals for the data visualization. It is a structured approach that you don't often find in this field. The process helped us crystallize the organizational data we wanted to share with our Board.

    Seth K., Vice President, Thought Leadership

  • Ama is very knowledgeable and has a unique ability to break down complex concepts into manageable and simplified explanations. I almost always experienced a sense of ease when working through issues with my data.

    Michelle Thompson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • Ama is an excellent teacher with a high aptitude and brilliance for visualizing data and communicating her expertise. I learned how to better use color, size, positioning, titles, and other elements to create a more user friendly chart viewing experience.

    Milton S.

  • Ama was curious, innovative, and dug in to the details of making her interactive keynote for our learners. Her talk was fun, very engaging and set a fantastic framework for Data Visualization and design concepts.

    Ashlyn King, Learning Program Manager