Data Visualization - 1 day

Duration:

One day course  

What you will take away from this training

• What is, data visualization, and what is it not?
• Where can data visualization add value?
• What kind of visualization techniques are there? How can this classification scheme be used?
• How do you choose which representation to choose for any particular situation?
• Tips & tricks on how not to lie with statistics

Who should attend?

People who work with data, do presentations where they'd like to support their message with graphics, or professionals involved in reporting on numbers. Generally, people who want to use data to get a message across.

Format

The course consists of plenary lecturing and working in small groups to create draft graphics for a series of standard visual representations. There is ample opportunity to input your own work-examples, and to find a few options for these together with the other students and lecturer.

What prior knowledge and/or experience is required?

For this class no prior knowledge or experience is required. It helps if you bring a keen interesting data, and the challenges of getting your point across amidst a sea of data.

Instructor

Tom Breur, is principal of XLNT Consulting, dedicated to helping companies make more money with their data. He started his career using COBOL and punchcards, and has been working with computers for 35 years since then. The last 25 years of these have been in areas we nowadays call "business intelligence." He has written dozens of papers in peer reviewed Journals, is data quality expert for Beyenetwork, for which he publishes a monthly paper. Tom has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Targeting and the Journal of Financial Services Management for the last 10 years. Tom has trained over 100 Certified Business Intelligence Professionals (TDWI's CBIP certificate). He frequently keynotes at international conferences, and is a lecturer at universities and MBA tracks of TIAS, UFSIA, and ING Business School. His fields of interest span the entire BI value chain from back-end to front-end. From data modeling to data warehousing, data mining and BI strategy, to performance management and scorecarding.

Registration

	Duration: One day course What you will take away from this training What is, data visualization, and what is it not? Where can data visualization add value? What kind of visualization techniques are there? How can this classification scheme be used? How do you choose which representation to choose for any particular situation? Tips & tricks on how not to lie with statistics Ticket for training. Early bird price goes up to 3 weeks before start of the training All details can be found in our events, please look at our events section. Read more >>	€595,00 My Cart >>