Storytelling with Data: Tools and Techniques
3 days|Delivered on request
This is a hands-on programme. Delegates spend most of the time working through self service analytics and forecasting techniques on live scenarios rather than listening to theory about them. The practical emphasis is deliberate: most organisations have more dashboards than decisions that depend on them, and reading about the method has repeatedly proved insufficient. Delegates leave able to work confidently with spreadsheet controls, report automation and visual encoding choices in their own organisation.
What delegates leave able to do
- Improve spreadsheet controls within their own organisation, measured against recognised data governance frameworks
- Put report automation on a footing they can defend to a reviewer
- Spot where visual encoding choices is failing before it becomes a finding
- Bring pivot table analysis into line with current good practice
What the course covers
- Self service analytics
- Forecasting techniques
- Spreadsheet controls
- Report automation
- Visual encoding choices
- Pivot table analysis
- Data cleaning and preparation
Who should attend
- finance professionals building reports
- data analysts
- business analysts
