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Andy Cotgreave, Technical Evangelist Director

Data Leadership

What is a Data Evangelist?

Andy Cotgreave, Technical Evangelist Director

Andy Cotgreave

Lead Evangelist, Tableau

Tableau’s Senior Data Evangelist Andy Cotgreave shares his definition of data evangelist as well as six qualifications required to succeed in the role.

Wendy Turner-Williams

5 Takeaways from Forrester’s Data Literacy Report

Multiple Contributors

Multiple Authors

New Forrester research shows a wide gap between the need for data literacy training in companies and what employees are receiving.

Visualizing for the Greater Good

David Pires

Director, Analytics Products & Visualization Engineering, Expedia Group

“Most charities, and particularly the non-global ones, just don’t have the resources, both monetary and physical, to use their data in ways that may potentially earn them further donations or help to identify the impact their activities have in the communities where they are present.”

Decentralized Data Governance as a Center of Excellence

Mark Palmer

Board Advisor, Correlation One, Data Visualization Society, Talkmap

Mark Palmer, Board Advisor at Correlation One, Data Visualization Society, and Talkmap, discusses whether data governance has become too charged a term, and highlights the benefits of decentralized data governance.

Josh Tapley

A Data Literacy Checklist

Josh Tapley

Josh Tapley

Senior Director, Data Visualization, Comcast

Josh Tapley from Comcast describes how intuitive data drives higher use and greater literacy.

Colm OGrada

Self-Service Analytics and the End of Metawork

Colm OGrada

Colm O'Grada

Director of Data and Analytics, Tines

Colm O’Grada of Tines describes how “metawork,” endlessly cycling conversations about trying to frame a business question, can be eliminated by empowering business users to self-serve for basic analytics needs.

Merav Yuravlivker

Unlocking Data Literacy on the Job

Merav Yuravlivker

Merav Yuravlivker

CEO and Co-Founder, Data Society

Data Society CEO and Co-Founder Merav Yuravlivker explains how to make data literacy stick and help solve business problems along with steps data leaders can take to close the gap between business users and data teams.

Svetlana Kuzmenkova of Telstra, a DLC Contributor.

5 Ways to Make Executives Your Best Data Advocates

Svetlana Kuzmenkova of Telstra, a DLC Contributor.

Svetlana Kuzmenkova

Lead Solution Engineer, Salesforce

How do you make data advocates out of executives who dictate the data analytics and visualization they want? Telstra’s Svetlana Kuzmenkova explains her team’s approach.

Glenn Exton

Data Leadership

Are You Data Inspired?

Glenn Exton

Glenn Exton

Head of Customer Business Analytics, NatWest Group

Glenn Exton, RBS International Head of Data Analytics, explains how he uses frameworks of disruptive thinking to invite more open-minded perspectives and drive insights based on visualising data from fresh angles.

Getting people to “get it” in just 45 minutes – the promise and perils of data visualization

Steve Wexler

CEO, Data Revelations

Data Revelations CEO Steve Wexler imagines a 45-minute presentation to senior executives to show the benefits of data visualization as well as the perils, with the goal to make them data literacy advocates.

Wendy Turner-Williams

Data Leadership

5 Ways CDOs Must Act as Data Conductors

Wendy Turner-Williams

Wendy Turner-Williams

As music literacy is to a smoothly running orchestra, data literacy is to a nimble, fast-moving company that makes data-informed decisions.

Merav Yuravlivker

Data Leadership

What Data Leaders Are Reading This Summer

Multiple Contributors

Multiple Authors

Five data leaders share what’s on their summer reading list.

Merav Yuravlivker

Five Ways to Create Impact from Workforce Data Training

Merav Yuravlivker

Merav Yuravlivker

CEO and Co-Founder, Data Society

Merav Yuravlivker, Data Society CEO and Co-Founder discusses five ways that data leaders can create lasting impact from data training courses.

Data Leadership

Data Leadership Defined in Three Principles

Sukhmeet Panesar

Sukhmeet Panesar

Chief Health Officer at Monstarlab & Senior Adviser to Chief Data and Analytics Officer, NHS England

It stands to reason that being a data leader in healthcare means you shouldn't make any decision unless you have the data, the analysis and insights to support it.

Data Leadership

Using Personas to Drive Data Strategies

Glenn Exton

Glenn Exton

Head of Customer Business Analytics, NatWest Group

RBS International Glenn Exton discusses how data leaders should deploy personas and outcomes-based techniques to inform users and better help them to decide and act.

Bridget Cogley

Making Data Ethics a Leadership Priority: Roundtable Highlights

Multiple Contributors

Multiple Authors

Five data leaders gathered to discuss the history and future implications of data ethics. These are some of the highlights.

Why Data Management Must Be Driven by Automation

Wendy Turner-Williams

Wendy Turner-Williams

Tableau CDO Wendy Turner-Williams discusses how the sheer volume of data today demands data management automation in order to perform at scale, and describes how she has helped companies to automate data governance in real time.

From Rear View to Self Driving: Assessing the Analytic Health of your Data Vehicle

Nate Mayfield

Nate Mayfield

Vice President, Strategy & Operations, Applications Service Excellence, Oracle

Oracle VP Application Services Excellence Nate Mayfield lays out a holistic analytics strategy for data leaders using the analogy of a car.

Where Data Culture and Data Community Meet

Eva Murray

Eva Murray

Senior Evangelist, Snowflake

The important steps to building a data culture, are building data communities. Snowflake's Technical Evangelist, Eva Murray, asks can one exist without the other?

Data Leadership

Three Ways Data Leaders Can Drive Impact Now

Merav Yuravlivker

Merav Yuravlivker

CEO and Co-Founder, Data Society

Merav Yuravlivker, CEO and Co-Founder of Data Society, highlights three ways data leaders can quickly make data more effective.