Dashboards are everywhere in the data industry, but are they being used effectively? Many professionals find themselves creating dashboards that end up underutilized or misunderstood. The key is not just in the data presented, but in how it's communicated and used. How can you rethink your approach to dashboarding to ensure it aligns with business goals? What methods can you employ to engage users and drive meaningful actions? Lee is the President at DecisionViz, who provides training and consulting to organizations to improve their people, process, and culture around visualization and storytelling. He's a course creator for the University of Chicago, an instructor for TDWI, and an Adjunct Faculty Instructor for NYU School of Professional Studies. Lee is also a Tableau Certified Associate Consultant, 4 times Tableau Ambassador, and a long-term Tableau Partner. Previously, he was a Research Advisor for the International Institute of Analytics, the Founder of the 501c data community, and a senior manager at Nokia. In the episode, Richie and Lee explore the limitations of traditional dashboards, the importance of a product mindset in data visualization, the role of communication and standardization in analytics, the intersection of AI with dashboarding, and much more. Links Mentioned in the Show: DecisionVizConnect with LeeCourse: Understanding Data VisualizationRelated Episode: Data Storytelling and Visualization with Lea Pica from Present Beyond MeasureSign up to attend RADAR: Skills Edition New to DataCamp? Learn on the go using the DataCamp mobile appEmpower your business with world-class data and AI skills with DataCamp for business

Doing sales better is perhaps the most direct route to making more revenue, so it should be a priority for every business. B2B sales is often very complex, with a mix of emails and video calls and prospects interacting with your website and social content. And you often have multiple people making decisions about a purchase. All this generates a massive data—or, more accurately, a mess of data—which very few sales teams manage to harness effectively. How can sales teams can make use of data, software, and AI to clean up this mess, work more effectively, and most of all, crush those quarterly targets?  Ellie Fields is the Chief Product and Engineering Officer at Salesloft leading Product Management, Engineering, and Design. Ellie previously led development teams at Tableau responsible for product strategy and engineering for collaboration and mobile portfolio. Ellie also launched and led Tableau Public. In the episode Richie and Ellie explore the digital transformation of sales, how sales technology helps buyers and sellers, metrics for sales success, activity vs outcome metrics, predictive forecasting, AI, customizing sales processes, revenue orchestration, how data impacts sales and management, future trends in sales, and much more.  Links Mentioned in the Show: SalesloftConnect with EllieForrester ResearchCourse - Understanding the EU AI ActRelated Episode: Data & AI at Tesco with Venkat Raghavan, Director of Analytics and Science at TescoRewatch sessions from RADAR: AI Edition New to DataCamp? Learn on the go using the DataCamp mobile app Empower your business with world-class data and AI skills with DataCamp for business

Driving impact with analytics goes beyond numbers and graphs; it's about telling a story that resonates. In this session, Brent Dykes, author of "Effective Data Storytelling" & the Founder & Chief Data Storyteller at AnalyticsHero, Lea Pica, author of "Present Beyond Measure" & the Founder at Story-driven by Data, and Andy Cotgreave, co-author of "The Big Book of Dashboards" and Senior Data Evangelist at Tableau, will unveil how to transform data into compelling narratives.  They shed light on the art of blending analytics with storytelling, a key to making data-driven insights both understandable and influential within any organization.

Understanding and interpreting data visualizations are one of the most important aspects of data literacy. When done well, data visualization ensures that stakeholders can quickly take away critical insights from data. Moreover, data visualization is often the best place to start when increasing organizational data literacy, as it’s often titled the “gateway drug” to more advanced data skills. Andy Cotgreave, Senior Data Evangelist at Tableau Software and co-author of The Big Book of Dashboards, joins the show to break down data visualization and storytelling, drawing from his 15-year career in the data space. Andy has spoken for events like SXSW, Visualized, and Tableau’s conferences and has inspired thousands of people to develop their data skills.

In this episode, we discuss why data visualization skills are so essential, how data visualization increases organizational data literacy, the best practices for visual storytelling, and much more.

This episode of DataFramed is a part of DataCamp’s Data Literacy Month, where we raise awareness about Data Literacy throughout September through webinars, workshops, and resources featuring thought leaders and subject matter experts that can help you build your data literacy, as well as your organization’s. For more information, visit: https://www.datacamp.com/data-literacy-month/for-teams

In this episode of DataFramed, we speak with Andy Cotgreave, Technical Evangelist at Tableau about the role of data storytelling when driving change with analytics, and the importance of the analyst role within a data-driven organization.

Throughout the episode, Andy discusses his background, the skills every analyst should know to equip organizations with better data-driven decision making, his best practices for data storytelling, how he thinks about data literacy and ways to spread it within the organization, the importance of community when creating a data-driven organization, and more.

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