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5 Data Trends to Watch in 2023

Sadie St. Lawrence

Founder and CEO, Women in Data

Data scientist and educator Sadie St. Lawrence shares her five top data trends for 2023, as well as thoughts for how data leaders should respond to them.

Laura Madsen

Data Governance vs. Data Management?

Laura Madsen

CEO, Moxy Analytics

Moxy Analytics CEO Laura Madsen delves into the overlap and potential synergies of data governance and data management.

Ethical AI: No Longer Optional

Nicola Osinaike

Founder, Audit Data Hub

Nicola Osinaike, Founder of Audit Data Hub, discusses the gap she sees in business users understanding – or even being aware of – ethical risk in AI programs.

Aaron Hillery

Do You Need a Data SME?

Aaron Hillery

Allen Hillery

Co-Founder, Be Data Lit

Data Stories’ Allen Hillery defines the Data SME role and shares his excitement about why it’s an up-and-coming career choice.

What happens when we lose sight of data ethics?

Amanda Makulec

Executive Director, Data Visualization Society

Data Visualization Society Executive Director Amanda Makulec considers the importance of data ethics in a world that runs on data and offers three responses data leaders can mount to help ensure its appropriate, ethical use.

Paul Chapman

Data Leadership

9 Key Skills Future Data Leaders Will Need

Paul Chapman

Paul Chapman

Global Director of Performance Management, BI and Innovation, JLL

JLL’s Paul Chapman predicts nine core skills the next wave of data leaders will need to succeed.

Heidi Lanford

Data Leadership

The Evolution of the CDO Role – and How to Succeed as One

Heidi Lanford

Chief Data and Analytics Officer

To anticipate the evolution of the Chief Data Officer role, it’s helpful to look at how other C-suite roles have come to be.

Aaron Hillery

Data Leadership

Data Empathy, Translation, & Better Culture: Three Reasons To Be a Data Leader

Aaron Hillery

Allen Hillery

Co-Founder, Be Data Lit

Data Stories’ Allen Hillery shares how a data leader can impact an organization by building data empathy, acting as a data translator, and improving the data culture.

Kevin O'Callaghan

Building a Data Governance Framework: 5 Best Practices

Kevin O'Callaghan

Kevin O'Callaghan

Head of Data Analytics, Teamwork

Kevin O’Callaghan of Teamwork describes a five-point approach to building a data governance framework that everyone will follow.

Eva Murray

Five Organizational Impacts of a Strong Data Community

Eva Murray

Eva Murray

Senior Evangelist, Snowflake

In my experience, people who join data communities almost immediately begin to enjoy their jobs more.

Three Strategies To Improve Data Literacy Within Your Organization

Adam Mico

Principal, Data Visualization and Enablement at Moderna

Moderna’s Adam Mico offers three strategies to not only improve your team’s data literacy skills, but how to move forward in the right kind of data literacy.

The Role of Data Literacy in Building a New Middle Class

Mark Palmer

Board Advisor, Correlation One, Data Visualization Society, Talkmap

Board Advisor, Correlation One, Data Visualization Society, Talkmap, Mark Palmer discusses how greater data literacy among underrepresented groups could represent the next opportunity to rebuild new middle class in the United States.

Neil Richards

Moving beyond Data Literacy and Data Fluency

Neil Richards

Neil Richards

Global Data Fluency Lead, JLL

JLL EMEA BI Lead Neil Richards makes a case for building data skills that drive confidence at every level of an organization.

Why Data Training Should Be Part of Your Employee Retention Strategy

Diamond Nwankwo

Senior Data Engineer, Slalom Build

Slalom Senior Data Engineer Diamond Nwankwo shares some compelling best practices for utilizing data training as part of your employee retention program to keep data employees healthy, happy, and engaged.

Launching Data Literacy: 5 Best Practices

Valerie Logan

CEO and Founder, The Data Lodge

In the final entry in this three-part series, Valerie Logan (CEO and Founder of The Data Lodge) outlines best practices for getting a data literacy initiative off the ground, and getting it to stick.

Rik Tamm-Daniels

Three Data Management Questions You Need to Ask

Rik Tamm-Daniels

Rik Tamm-Daniels

GVP Ecosystem Alliances and Technology, Informatica

Rik Tamm-Daniels, Vice President of Strategic Ecosystems and Technology at Informatica, discusses three core questions companies must answer about their data assets in order to drive a strong and effective data culture.

Colm OGrada

3 Ways to Make Data Literacy a Two-Way Street

Colm OGrada

Colm O'Grada

Director of Data and Analytics, Tines

Colm O’Grada, Director of Data and Analytics at Tines, shares his bilateral approach to data literacy, which includes making data products as easy to consume and act on as possible and listening carefully to feedback from the business on what is (and isn’t) landing well.

Glenn Exton

Why Data Quality Should Be in Everyone’s Objectives

Glenn Exton

Glenn Exton

Head of Customer Business Analytics, NatWest Group

RBS International Head of Data Analytics Glenn Exton argues that one way to improve data quality system-wide is to make it part of everyone’s job goals.

Laura Madsen

Myth-busting: Data Governance Edition

Laura Madsen

CEO, Moxy Analytics

Moxy Analytics CEO Laura Madsen takes on three of the most problematic, yet still surprisingly common, myths about data governance.

Sarah Nell Rodriguez

How Data Literacy Education Reduces Poverty

Sarah Nell Rodriguez

Sarah Nell-Rodriguez

Co-Founder, Be Data Lit

Sarah Nell-Rodriquez, discusses the role data literacy played in changing the direction of her life, from cashier to cash manager to collections to corporate data analyst.