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Bridget Cogley
Data Practice

Why Data Ethics Isn't Going Away

Bridget Cogley

Bridget Cogley

Co-Founder & CVO, Versalytix
Former medical interpreter, Tableau Visionary, and Versalytix Chief Visualization Officer Bridget Cogley discusses the current state of data ethics, what needs to be done to formalize and advance the field, why data literacy is a data ethics issue, and five ways every data leader can make an impact.
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Data Leadership

5 Data Trends to Watch in 2023

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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.
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Data Practice

Data Governance vs. Data Management?

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Laura Madsen

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

What happens when we lose sight of data ethics?

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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

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

Adjunct Professor, Macaulay Honors College
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.
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Data Culture

Three Strategies To Improve Data Literacy Within Your Organization

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Adam Mico

Principal, Data and Analytics Strategist, 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.
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Data Impact

The Role of Data Literacy in Building a New Middle Class

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Mark Palmer

M&A Advisor, Warburg Pincus
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
Data Culture

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.
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Data Culture

Launching Data Literacy: 5 Best Practices

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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
Data Practice

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
Data Culture

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
Data Culture

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.
Sarah Nell Rodriguez
Data Impact

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.
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
Data Culture

5 Takeaways from Forrester’s Data Literacy Report

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

Visualizing for the Greater Good

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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.”
Colm OGrada
Data Practice

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
Data Culture

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.