Data Able

This was an episode where I talked with Haydee Hernandez, Director of Product Management @ CollegeAdvisor.com. In this episode we talk about the importance of experimentation and building a culture of experimentation within organizations. More about Haydee Hernandez: College Advisor: CollegeAdvisor.com Haydee’s LinkedIn: in/hernandezhaydee If you like the episode, then I would appreciate you sharing it with a friend (better yet 10 friends!) and leaving a positive review in your podcast catcher. Learn more about me (Dave Mathias) @ gobeyondthedata.com or find me on LinkedIn @ in/davemathias1. If you like the podcast then you will love my go Beyond the Data newsletter where you will get more human-centered and data-driven insights and stories.

This was an episode where I talked with Michel Guillet a Sr. Product Manager at the fast-growing SalesLoft startup where they help companies engage with customers, build pipeline, and close revenue, faster and we discuss how human-centric and data-driven approaches can help sales better succeed. Sales people and sales managers are constantly under pressure to close deals and reduce executive revenue uncertainty despite an unpredictable world and the pressures of life and work. Michel and I talk about some of the challenges sales people and managers face and how human-centered and data-driven approach can help generally including some of the things SalesLoft is doing to help its customers. More about Michel Guillet: SalesLoft: salesloft.com Michel’s LinkedIn: in/miguillet If you like the episode, then I would appreciate you sharing it with a friend (better yet 10 friends!) and leaving a positive review in your podcast catcher. Learn more about me (Dave Mathias) and go Beyond the Data @ https://gobeyondthedata.com. If you like the podcast then you will love the go Beyond the Data newsletter where you will get more human-centered and data-driven insights and stories.

This was an episode where Jansen Sullivan and Victor Anjos of the All Things Data podcast by 1000ml and I talked about data education and some of the gaps that we hope get resolved. A lot of progress is being made but lots more needs to happen. Jansen, Victor, and myself all believe that traditional analytics education moves too slowly and is often too focused on checking boxes more than creating good data analysts, data scientists, data engineers, data product owners, etc. There is a lot of great efforts that traditional universities are working to adapt but the system lacks the agility. Beyond the traditional education approach, the analytics space is a space that requires real projects and experience with end-to-end problems to advance people’s skills. More apprenticeship learning is required and love to see more organizations recognize this and support this. More about Jansen, Victor and All Things Data All Things Data Podcast: https://1000ml.io/category/podcasts/ 1000ml Website: https://1000ml.io/ Jansen’s LinkedIn: in/jansensullivan Victor’s LinkedIn: in/victoranjos Check out some of the ways that we are trying to disrupt education at Beyond the Data @ https://gobeyondthedata.com and sign up for our newsletter or check out our public upcoming accelerators, boot camps, and workshops (all virtual and all cohort approach) like our upcoming Data Storytelling Boot Camp @ https://gobeyondthedata.eventbrite.com

Being a Chief Data Officer is a challenging role but Jeff Richardson has been up to the challenge at Bentley Systems. In this episode Jeff talks about his approach around data strategy and leadership, the importance of data literacy and data translators, and more. Get the full episode transcript at https://www.gobeyondthedata.com/thoughts/podcast-ep41-jeff-richardson More about Jeff Bentley Systems: https://www.bentley.com/ Jeff’s LinkedIn: in/jeffrichardson

Data is just as important for creatives and Jasmine RuKim as CEO and co-founder of Monicat Data knows all about it. Jasmine and her team help creative teams leverage data and technology to make a greater impact. Jasmine and team are the business behind creativity. In addition to advising creative teams they are now in process of creating the Yellow Platform aimed at bringing data together for creative teams. Learn more about Monicat Data, Jasmine RuKim, and their IFundWomen campaign for the Yellow Platform here: Monicat Data: https://www.MonicatData.com Yellow Platform Campaign: ifundwomen.com/projects/yellow-data-platform Jasmine’s LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jasmine-rukim-mba-19461914 Jasmine’s Website jasminerukim.com Favorite Storyteller: Prof G www.profg.co

Data storytelling is extremely important to tell memorable and impactful data stories. All too often good data visualization is confused as data storytelling. In this episode Dave Mathias interviews Brent Dykes who recently authored Effective Data Storytelling that brings this point home and much more. It is a must have book and not just if you are a “data person.” In addition to his recent book, Brent is also a Sr. Director, Data Strategy at Domo and Forbes Contributor. LinkedIn: in/BrentDykes Twitter: @AnalyticsHero Effective Data Storytelling Website: https://www.effectivedatastorytelling.com/ Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brentdykes

Allen Hillery went from engineer to digital marketer to now a data visualization specialist not only being a prolific writer in the data visualization space but also teaching at Columbia University. Now he is taking his passion around data literacy and trying to make a difference in underprivileged young persons in New York City. Make sure to check out this episode of Data Able and then continue on to read some of his engaging articles. If in NYC then maybe you will see Allen and NY Open Data or one of the other great data and community events. Website: https://medium.com/@alglobehopper LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/AllenHillery Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlDatavizguy Publication: https://medium.com/nightingale

This week Dave and Matt talk with Rosa Pantoja of Unilever. Rosa talks about her evolution starting as a Data Champion of one and what stories of her success. Contact Rosa Pantoja LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosapantoja Website: https://www.rosapantoja.com

This week Dave talks with Susan Otten of the Minnesota Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators and founder of Indie Do Good. They talk about the upcoming importance of data for communications professionals and the upcoming Convergence Summit 2020 in Minneapolis, MN on March 19th where Dave will be speaking about "How to Use Data to Listen and Communicate Better." Minnesota Chapter of IABC Chapter Website: https://iabcmn.com/ Convergence Summit 2020: https://summit.iabcmn.com/ Susan Otten LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sueotten Website: IndieDoGood.com

This week, we talk with Angela Wilkins from Mercury Data Science. She has an amazing background in Data Science and has built a team to help startups leverage their data. She tells some amazing stories about what her data projects have delivered and how she went about solving them.

Lori Silverman is an expert in driving organizational change to become data informed

We talk with Matt Anderson who started his career as a librarian, because a digital product manager, and now works with data on a regular basis

From Feminism to Data Science and everything in between. We talk with Catherine D'Ignazio at Eyeo Festival about some of the groundbreaking work she's doing in data... And an exciting career update from Catherine who's heading to MIT!

So you want to implement new data visualization techniques into an organization? Learn from Tricia Duncan, who has helped companies all over the midwest with getting more visual with their analytics. Learn from her successes... and some of her failures.

We're talking with Nadieh Bremer, a freelance data visualization expert. Nadieh breaks down how she tackles a tough data visualization problem and shares some examples of her award winning visualizations!

*** A technical glitch in the first version of the audio has been fixed *** Ben Schein is the VP of Data Curiosity at Domo. He helps organizations explore data in new and interesting ways, delivering more insight and getting more value from their BI tool.

Rachel believes that data empowers humans: it's what gives us the ability to solve problems and change the world. With data, we can close gaps and remove boundaries to become more interconnected with each other.

How Caroline & Sara are building a dataviz community in Portugal

Qlik Qonnections 2019 Feat. Chantilly Jaggernauth and Ben Jones

Design. User Experience. Knowing your audience. Empathising with your end user. These are such critical facets of getting analytics right in your organization. Brian O'Neill knows a little bit about this. He is a product designer and founder of the consultancy, Designing for Analytics, which provides design and UX consulting for custom enterprise data products and apps. For over 20 years, he has worked with companies including DELL/EMC, Tripadvisor, Fidelity, JP Morgan Chase, and many others. Today Brian focuses on helping clients create more useful, usable, profitable, and engaging decision support software and information products.

How does a huge company like Cargill get value out of their data? Part of it is data engineering and data science, but a much larger part of it is rolling out a Self-Service approach, enabling everyone in the organization to become capable of seeing and understanding data. This week we talk with Mitchell Grewer who is leading the effort to get data into the hands of all Cargill employees.

We're continuing our "Analytics on the Road" series! This week Dave sits down with Renee McGregor from South Africa Qlik, a partner reseller. Over the past couple years, they've really focused on Data Literacy in Cape Town and it shows! If you look up Google Trends results for "Data Literacy", you'll find that South Africa is one of the top countries. Renee talks about what that looks like and the work they do to improve Data Literacy for their organizations.

Lailah Ryklief and Julia Renouprez talk about their mission at their non-profit, Open Up, to connect South Africans to their government's data. Helping improve poverty and increase skills across the country, they look to use data and help other citizens use data to improve the lives of South Africans.

Dennis Still understands how small businesses and startups think. They actually need to solve many of the same challenges that large companies face with deep analytics and data science. In this episode, we talk about what good analytics looks like at a smaller organization.

Want to make your analytics efforts successful in your organization? Serena Roberts from Wolters Kluwer believes that building authentic relationships is the key to making progress. Advanced tools, technologies, and methods is important, but without relationship-building, your analytics won't drive real, transformational change.

Coming to you from Cape Town South Africa, Dave sits down with Jeff Sloan at a local coffee shop. Jeff is a self-prescribed Data Product Manager, blending product management principles with the data and analytics industry to create better solutions for internal and external customers.

Jordan Morrow is on a mission to help organizations and individuals become data literate. He believes that the ability to speak, read and write data will be the next big differentiator in the next few years. He travels around the world speaking with people about how to improve their own data literacy.

Data is there to answer a question. But human intuition needs to play a role as well. Combining the two is the goal.

David Niemi loves higher education. So much so that he’s spent his entire career involved in it. From an early age, David recognized that there were better ways to help students and learners achieve their goals, and he’s been on a mission to make that experience better ever since.

Good storytelling skills can be used for good and evil. One key is taking audience in mind, being ethical, and being transparent when framing the story.

Listen to Tessa Enns from Cargill and Liz Weber from Supervalu as they talk through the highs and lows of running a successful analytics project that leads to real business value.

Dave & Matt discuss why storytelling is so important and a few tips for people to practice when storytelling. Further, we discuss how struggling a little can help learning and retention.

Meet Kristen Sosulski. She’s an Associate Professor and an Author. Kristen is an absolute expert on Data Visualization and her passion is in helping up-and-coming analysts use visualization to enhance their work, tell stories, and communicate effectively with data.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a data visualization must be worth far more than that.

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. A data viz is worth many times more than even that!

Today we're talking about creativity and creative thinking. Think that's like oil and water? More like Peanut Butter and Jelly!

We're talking about Improv! The ability to think on your feet, ask good questions, and connect with your audience in a meaningful way. Traditionally considered skills for comedy, we think they can help you be a better analyst.

What is the makeup of a good analytics leader? How do leaders become successful in leading analytics teams? Part 1 focuses on Data Executives. Part 2 will focus on Managers of analysts.

What is the makeup of a good analytics leader? How do leaders become successful in leading analytics teams? Part 1 focuses on Data Executives. Part 2 will focus on Managers of analysts.

Dave Mathias and Matt Jesser discuss what a data-driven/data-informed culture in an organization

Dave and Matt talk about the future of self service analytics and how things like AI might help analysts do their jobs better

Dave Mathias and Matt Jesser talk about what data literacy is and how it can benefit organizations.

Dave Mathias and Matt Jesser talk about self-service BI, what it is, and some keys to success.

Dave and Matt get a little meta and discuss how they came up with the name Data Able.