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Self-Service Analytics and the End of Metawork

Colm O'Grada

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.

Data Culture

Unlocking Data Literacy on the Job

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.

Data Practice

5 Ways to Make Executives Your Best Data Advocates

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.

Data Leadership

Are You Data Inspired?

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.

Data Practice

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.

Data Leadership

5 Ways CDOs Must Act as Data Conductors

Wendy Turner-Williams

Data Leader

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

Data Leadership

What Data Leaders Are Reading This Summer

Multiple Authors

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

Data Impact

Five Ways to Create Impact from Workforce Data Training

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

Chief Health Officer at Monstarlab

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

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.

Data Practice

Making Data Ethics a Leadership Priority: Roundtable Highlights

Multiple Authors

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

Data Practice

Why Data Management Must Be Driven by Automation

Wendy Turner-Williams

Data Leader

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.

Data Impact

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

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.

Data Culture

Where Data Culture and Data Community Meet

Eva Murray

Lead Evangelist EMEA, 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

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.

Data Practice

The Essential Link between Data Literacy and Data Ethics

Luke Stanke

SVP Data Analytics, phData

phData SVP of Analytics Luke Stanke argues that the ability to determine bias in data use is vitally connected to data literacy, and that data literacy has profound implications in successfully navigating data ethics.

Data Leadership

Three New Data Responsibilities for Today’s Managers

Jane Crofts

Founder, Data To The People

Data To The People founder Jane Crofts discusses how managers at all levels must add a new set of skills to the domain expertise, HR and fiscal responsibilities that are at the core of their jobs.

Data Culture

Seven Ways to Get Moving with a Data Literacy Program

Glenn Exton

Head of Customer Business Analytics, NatWest Group

Glenn Exton, RBS International Head of Data Analytics, discusses seven ways data leaders can create momentum to significantly boost data literacy.

Data Culture

How Data Literacy Enables a Culture of Intent

Wendy Turner-Williams

Data Leader

One of the reasons data literacy skills are so important is that they enable an organization to build and grow a culture of data.

Data Culture

Three Ways to Build Literacy in an Industry Built on Data

Abisola Oni

Data Product Owner, Paystack

Abisola Oni, Data Product Owner at Paystack, discusses how her team is building data literacy across the organization and the vital importance of analyzing and visualizing data in the payments space.