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Using Business Intelligence to Tell Your Product’s Performance Story
Product Managers are constantly evaluating how to improve the customer experience. They use data in order to understand their product’s performance and make changes to improve it. While understanding the data as a product manager is fairly challenging,...
Say Their Names: Ida B Wells and the Humanizing of Data
Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an American investigative journalist, educator and early leader in the civil rights movement. Born July 16, 1862 she dedicated most of her life combating...
Anthony Starks on Recreating Du Bois’s Iconic Style
Anthony Starks on Recreating Du Bois’s Iconic Style Allen would like to acknowledge Anthony Starks for his expert assistance with this article. Earlier this month, Sekou Tyler, Anthony Starks and I thought it was important to recognize the...
How W.E.B Du Bois Used Data Visualization to Debunk Social Darwinism and Tell A Story of Resilience
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was a well-known writer, sociologist, historian, and civil-rights activist. He was born on Feb 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. He completed his graduate...
Neurodiversity and Data: A conversation with Adam Mico and Hunter Hansen
I had a chance to talk with Adam Mico and Hunter Hansen shortly after their presentation on neurodiversity at The Fringe Festival. The Fringe Festival is a community-organized event to give people a platform who may not have opportunities to...
An interview with Equity Task Force member Candra McRae
Get to know Equity Task Force member Candra McRae through her conversation with fellow Task Force member Allen Hillery. Candra is a Seattle native currently residing in Columbus, GA. CEO of Lumodis that loves a thrill for the “data...
Building your data community through empathy
Today's data and analytics tools make it easier for organizations to visualize data quickly and easily. At the same time, an influx of data has left organizations unable to fully tap into their data resources. According to a McKinsey Analytics Survey, only 8% of...
Why are Data communities Important? w/ Allen Hillery
You know me — I love the community! Being a part of the BI community has changed my life and it can change yours too for the better if you choose the right community and understand how to use it to your advantage. Listen and learn. Today’s guest is Allen Hillery,...
Data is Everywhere Podcast
Episode Summary Data is everywhere and so it incorporates every facet of your life 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...
DATA LITERACY IS NOT ONE SIZE FITS ALL
“You don’t have to be a data scientist to be data literate.” In fact, fewer technical colleagues are welcome to help narrow the data literacy gap! As I mentioned in my last post, there are 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created daily. I love Chartio’s view of the...