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Dates and location
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Description
Study after study confirms a simple truth: organizations that consistently use data to make decisions have better outcomes. The future of business will be data-driven. However, simply providing access to data is not enough to generate these dividends.
Organizations have made tremendous investments in self-service business intelligence infrastructures, yet becoming truly data-driven has proven elusive. To be competitive, organizations must be able to use data to make optimal decisions. To be competitive, organizations must be data-literate.
This course is specifically designed to train organizational leaders to build data literacy in their business. Leaders will learn the practicalities of building a data-literate organization, how to identify the 20% of organizational data literacy that delivers 80% of ROI, and how data literacy can be iteratively rolled out to an organization in a practical manner.
Topics Include:
- Introducing Data Literacy
- Process-centric Thinking
- Reading and Analyzing Data
- Measuring Processes
- Analyzing Processes
- Implementing Practical Data Literacy
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Key Takeaways
Upon completion of this course, you will learn:
- Why data literacy matters.
- The four levels of analytics.
- Where true data literacy begins.
- How to answer the fundamental question.
- How to read and analyze data.
- How to measure processes.
- The power and dark side of KPIs.
- How to analyze KPIs.
- How to make truly data-driven decisions.
- How to implement practical data literacy in the organization.
Who Will Benefit
This course will benefit executives, managers, senior individual contributors (e.g., leads and architects) and data literacy stakeholders who are looking to build data literacy within their organizations.
How to Access the Course
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Speaker(s)
David Langer is a hands-on consultant, trainer, and speaker with a mission to make data analysis skills as commonplace as Excel skills. Dave on Data was founded to achieve this mission by crafting and delivering the best analytics training for all professionals regardless of role. Dave has held analytics leadership roles at Schedulicity, Data Science Dojo, and Microsoft. He has trained hundreds of BI and analytics professionals in the fundamentals of machine learning and analytics. Dave has been recognized for his effective style of teaching analytics, and his YouTube tutorials have more than 2,000,000 combined views. Dave holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Washington.