An introduction to Data Visual Anaytics to achieve operations and sales productivity.

Key topics are:

• Why Visual Analytics is transforming business

• Best Practices

• Collaborative problem solving

• Deployment considerations

Upon successful completion of this course, the participant should be able to:

• Articulate why Data Visual Analytics is so much more powerful in business decision making than basic visualisation and dashboards

• Have a holistic view of Data Exploration cycle and the different tools required to deliver results

• How to forage for data and incorporate different data sources into visual analytics

• Why the brain prefers to analyse data visually and how to do this more effectively

• How to be more effective in gaining insights from data by viewing it from different perspectives using interactive dashboards

• How story telling dramatically increases the likelihood of insights being actioned

• Making collaboration a key element of the problem solving process

• Tools available on the market and key deployment considerations

• Introduction to Data Visual Analytics and why it is more than visualization

• • What is visual analytics and why it augments human perception

  • Data Exploration Cycle

• Data Preparation

• • Why it is important & best practice

• Explore and Visualise

• • Visual Exploration: enable the query, exploration and visualization in a single process

  • Visualisation methods: What to use and how to increase impact

  • Visual Perspective-Shifting: Why it is important to be able to view the same data stream through different visulaisation techniques to find the best insights?

  • Automatic Visualisation: How not to get stuck in tables and old ways of thinking

• Develop Insights, Act and undertake Tasks

• • Visual Expressiveness: why people need to visualize and contrast multiple dimensions (eg time, sales, profit), to solve complex problems. – explore best practices

  • Visual Perspective Linking: Problem solving is enhanced when images are intimately linked so a selection on one shows related relevant data in the others

  • Collaborative Visualisation: How tools that enable collaboration in analytics allow best practices and models to be shared or re-used

• Deployment Consideration

• • Key Consideration in deploying data analytics tools

• Applying Visual Analytics in your environment – 1st steps

All business professionals wanting to increase and  improve their use of data in decision making

At the end of the training, the participants will receive a certificate of participation delivered by the House of Training.

The course material will be delivered at the beginning of the course.