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As an independent educator and consultant, Nick has taught data visualization and information dashboard design to thousands of professionals in over a dozen countries at organizations such as NASA, Bloomberg, The Central Bank of Tanzania, Visa, the Government of Canada, The United Nations, The University of Toronto, Marathon Oil, Shopify, and Teradata, among many others. Nick was the first and only educator to be authorized by Stephen Few to deliver his foundational data visualization and dashboard design workshops, which he taught from 2014 until launching his own workshops in 2019. Nick also frequently consults for large and mid-sized private, public and non-profit organizations, designing information dashboards for senior decision-makers and other roles.
For over 20 years, Nick has been designing information displays that enable senior decision-makers to make better, more data-driven decisions based on potentially large amounts of data, and to do so in less time and with less effort. He has extensive knowledge of data visualization, information dashboard design, business intelligence, data analysis, cognition and cognitive biases, perception, memory and learning, software design and development, and product management. Nick's books Practical Charts and Practical Dashboards will be published in 2021.
April 26th-29th, 13.30-17.00 (Central European Time)
CGI Academy is pleased to host a data visualization workshop by one of the world’s leading experts in the field.
Course description
While there’s been a lot of talk in recent years about designing tables and graphs that “bring data to life”, “tell a story”, or “make data beautiful”, the unfortunate reality is that many charts that are created inside of organizations are ineffective. They don’t give readers the answers they need in order to do their jobs, fail to make key insights obvious, or are just plain confusing. A surprising number of charts fundamentally misrepresent the underlying data—even when the person who created it wasn’t trying to deceive anyone. Even major media outlets regularly publish charts that are confusing, ineffective, or misleading.
Developed by globally recognized data visualization expert and educator Nick Desbarats, the intensive Practical Charts course begins by equipping participants with practical knowledge of key best practices and common mistakes, and then builds on that knowledge to enable participants to create charts that are clear, compelling, and—most importantly—useful.
The course content is solidly grounded in data visualization and visual perception research, as well as Nick’s decades of real-world executive experience, however, the focus is on hands-on learning and practice so that participants return to their desks with the practical know-how to handle all of the data visualization challenges that they’re likely to encounter day-to-day.
Who should take this course?
Anyone who regularly creates tables and graphs as part of their work, including business and financial analysts, business intelligence and data analysts, policy analysts, executives, project managers, software developers, statisticians, data scientists, user experience designers, as well as human resource, marketing, sales, operations and finance professionals. Other professionals, such as researchers, journalists, health care professionals and educators will also benefit. Experienced data professionals will benefit from the workshop since having advanced data analysis expertise does not necessarily mean that one has mastered the skills necessary to communicate data effectively to others.
The course content is sector-agnostic, and participants come from a wide variety of public, private, and non-profit organizations. No prior technical or data visualization knowledge is required and no data visualization software is used during the course, however, participants should have at least some experience creating charts in a data visualization application such as Excel, Tableau, Qlik, JMP, etc.
When: April 26th-29th, 13.30-17.00 (Central European Time)
Price: 7.500,- NOK or 839,- USD
Early bird: Before February 28th, Groups (2+) will receive 15% discount on the regular price.
Read more about the workshop topics and register below!
May 03rd -05th, 13.30-17.00 (Central European Time)
CGI Academy is pleased to host a data visualization workshop by one of the world’s leading experts in the field.
Course description
Despite the fact that books and courses on information dashboard design have been available for years, many dashboards still fail to meet users' and organizations' expectations. Users have trouble finding answers to basic data-related questions and fail to notice urgent problems because they’re hidden behind clicks, hard to notice, or possibly not even on the dashboard. Because of these and other problems, many dashboards still end up under-used or even abandoned.
Based on Nick Desbarats’ experiences designing dashboards for over 50 large organizations and teaching dashboard design to thousands of professionals, the Practical Dashboards course uncovers the real reasons why so many dashboards fail to satisfy users and organizations; reasons that go far deeper than the visual design on which most dashboard books and courses focus. Workshop participants will learn a highly practical, actionable framework for creating a system of different types of dashboards that enable users to find answers to their data-related questions far more quickly and easily, including fundamental ones such as, “Is everything O.K. at the moment?”, often for the first time.
Who should take this course
The Practical Dashboards course provides specific strategies, frameworks and best practices for those who are directly responsible for designing or developing information dashboards for employees, partners, stakeholders, and/or customers of their organization. Participants typically include business intelligence professionals, data analysts, reporting managers, software developers, user interface designers, and similar roles. The strategies and frameworks in the course are sector-agnostic and are applicable to organizations in the finance, manufacturing, technology, health care, banking, insurance, government, military, non-profit, education, and most other sectors. Senior managers and other decision-makers who consume dashboards will also find the course to be of value since it enables them to ask for dashboard designs that help them to be more effective at their jobs. The course does not assume any specific prior technical knowledge.
When: May 03rd -05th, 13.30-17.00 (Central European Time)
Price: 5.500,- NOK or 579,- USD
Early bird: Before February 28th, Groups (2+) will receive 15% discount on the regular price.
Read more about the workshop topics and register below!