Tutor: Nick Desbarats
We are overwhelmed by information, not because there is too much, but because we don't know how to tame it. Information lies stagnant in rapidly expanding pools as our ability to collect and warehouse it increases but our abilities to make sense of and communicate it often aren’t up to the task.
Computers speed the process of information handling but they don't tell us what the information means or how to communicate its meaning to decision-makers. These analysis and communication skills are not intuitive; they must be learned.
These workshops equip participants with the knowledge and techniques of visual business intelligence to help them make better use of their valuable information assets.
This is a three-day programme consisting of two courses:
Show Me the Numbers: Table and Graph Design and Information Dashboard Design
This programme is taught by Nick Desbarats of Practical Reporting Inc, is an independent educator and consultant who has provided data visualization and dashboard design training to over 1,000 professionals in eight countries and designed information dashboards for senior decision-makers at billion-dollar organizations. Nick is the only educator who is authorized to deliver Stephen Few's foundational training courses.
This course is aimed at anyone who communicates quantitative information to internal decision-makers, external stakeholders, the public or others. Participants could come from the government, not-for-profit or private sectors and may include teachers, scientists, medical professionals, business managers and analysts, planners, information management and communication professionals, business intelligence and application developers, data analysts, usability experts—basically anyone who regularly needs to communicate quantitative information to an audience.