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Data Visualisation - Presenting Insights from Data

"Data is the new oil" - The Economist, May 2017

In this data age, the ability to extract value from data is a highly sought after by both individuals and organizations. While data analytics is often associated with hard skills such as database management, programming and statistics; hard skills alone are not enough. It requires the right mix of soft skills to contextualize the problem, make sense of the analysis and communicate it in a concise, coherent and compelling fashion to drive action.

This is one of a series of three one-day online workshops. Each workshop is modular in nature, addressing different aspects along the analytics value chain.

• Data Analysis - a 1-day workshop that focuses on the technical aspects of mining data for objective insights
• Data Visualization - a 1-day workshop that focuses on presenting data in accessible forms to get the right message across using data visualizations
• Data Storytelling - a 1-day workshop that focuses on presenting analyses and proposals in a concise, coherent, and compelling fashion to facilitate decision-making

About this workshop

This workshop aims to provide a broad but practical overview of the entire analytics value chain; with a specific focus on presenting data to convey the right message to an audience. Attendees will learn the fundamentals of visualisation and get their hands "dirty" building different visualizations with large data sets. This is targeted at professionals and managers in non-analyst roles but may be required to work with or make sense of data and presenting data in their work.

Objective

By the end of this course, the participants would be able to:

• Understand what data analytics is, and the key ingredients for sustainable analytics
• Understand the analytics value and the part that effective communications with data plays in delivering the "last mile" of value
• Appreciate the thought process as well as key technical and visual considerations to designing effective data visualizations
• Appreciate the thought process as well as key technical and visual considerations to assembling data visualizations into coherent and impact dashboards
• Gain exposure to various analytical and visualization techniques and tools to glean insights from the data

Outline

1. What is Data Analytics?

• A general introduction of the concept of analytics; including the general applications and the potential of analytics to inform, explain and guide decision making
• Case studies - See how some notable organizations have successfully deployed analytics to great effect (Walmart, Target, Google etc.)
• Foundations for sustainable analytics - understand what it takes to build analytics capabilities

2. The Analytics Value Chain and role of Data Visualization and Communication

• The analytics value chain
• It takes more than just data to deliver value in analytics; it takes the right combination of hard and soft data skills; particularly the soft skills in interpreting the analytical outcomes in the right context

3. Conveying the message through Data Visualization

• Key principles in Data visualization
• Thought process in selecting the right visualization for the intended message
• Finding the right message
• The require comparison to convey the message
• Selecting the right visualization
• Hands-on exercises on MS Excel

4. Self Service Analytics using Infographics

• What is an infographic?
• Why deploy infographics?
• Class Exercise: Building interactive infographic on MS Excel Analysis

5. Self Service Analytics using Dashboards

• What is a dashboard?
• Why deploy dashboards?
• When do you deploy dashboards and how do you measure success?
• Key design requirements: Purpose, Development & Delivery
• Class Exercise: Building interactive dashboards on MS Excel Analysis

6. Exposure to other data visualization tools in the market

Who should attend

This workshop is designed for managers, professionals and staff at all levels who want to learn make a bigger impact with their analysis. The course is suitable for participants across all industries and job functions. Participants are required to have basic MS Excel skills; some prior knowledge of data analytics would be helpful.

Methodology

Trainer takes a practical approach to analytics, and therefore the workshop emphasizes practical analytic skills through learning of key principles and analytics skills. A combination of lectures and hands on exercises are designed to enable participants to acquire those practical skills. This workshop utilises MS Excel for the computer-based exercises.

Testimonials

It is an informative experience. I have learnt things that I can use in my work

It refreshes my knowledge and appreciate stats again. It also helps to be able to identify issues into simple, complicated and complex problems.

The case study was useful and interesting. Also appreciated the examples the trainer walked us through on how to apply different tools to achieve desired outcomes.

Profile of Jeremy Poon

B. Eng, IHRP-CA, Principal Consultant

• Jeremy leads engagements to help clients build practical analytics capabilities. His clients span several functions, sectors and geographies including Manufacturing, Electronics, Telecoms, Education and Government across Asia Pacific.

• With over 30 years of commercial and professional experience, including leadership roles across many sectors and geographies; including telecommunication, hospitality, MICE and government across Asia Pacific.

• Notably, Jeremy was at the forefront of the Info-Comm Technology world; including Telecommunications, Smart Cities, IoT, Command, Control and Communications (C3) with dashboard solutions; and represented ST Telemedia bidding for Singapore 2nd Full-Service Base Operator license, with NTT, BT and Singapore Power for the pre-qualification and main bid tender leading to the formation of Starhub Ltd.

• Jeremy Bachelor’s degree in Electrical & Electronics from the National University of Singapore as well as a Certified Associated from the Institute for Human Resource Professionals.