Top 10 Business Intelligence Trends for 2017

You may have read books or attended presentations touting visualizations that changed the world and then tried to apply these same visualizations to your businesses and failed. Yes, the Minard chart on Napoleon’s campaign to conquer Moscow, the John Snow cholera map, and the Florence Nightingale sanitary conditions "rose" chart did have a profound impact on society.

But how can they help your business?

In this webinar, see real-world examples, free of esoteric chart types, that people employed to change the way their organizations did business.

Those viewing this webinar will see examples and think, "Yes! I see and understand this!"

And more importantly, "Yes, our organization can do this, too!"

What is data literacy and what does it look like to be proficient?

Watch this webinar to hear from Ben Jones, author of Avoiding Data Pitfalls and Founder and CEO of Data Literacy, LLC. Ben loves to help people learn the language of data and is a highly experienced and enthusiastic instructor, having taught data to thousands in a variety of corporate settings, academic classrooms, and international conferences.

Ben will challenge you to think beyond the specific data analysis tools you're learning or have mastered, and instead, consider 17 key traits of data literacy.

To help orient you, Ben will divide these traits into several categories: knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors. He'll also teach you how to assess your own data literacy strengths and weaknesses.

Many organizations don’t realize how much faster and more accurate their decision making would be if they were better at data visualization. Indeed, most organizations struggle with seeing and understanding their data. (Think about some of those 100-page slide decks and 60-column spreadsheets.)

In this webinar, Tableau Zen Master and best-selling author Steve Wexler will share insights on how to get your organization to "get" data visualization.

Watch and learn:

- Why “just the numbers” isn't good enough
- The “gateway drug” to data visualization
- Why do we see so many bar charts?
- Why most people make a mess of using color
- The secret to engaging your stakeholders and the power of disaggregated data
- What you should always, always, always keep in mind

If you’re new to data visualization, this webinar will help you understand the benefits of well-designed charts and dashboards. If you are experienced in data visualization, this webinar will help you evangelize its use in your organization.

Your analytics shouldn't be locked up in local files and email attachments. But how you can efficiently and effectively put your data discoveries in front of others without risking the security of the data and creating multiple versions of the same thing?

Watch this webinar to learn how to extend the value of your data across your entire organization. Empower your colleagues with the freedom to explore data in a trusted environment, effortless access fellow colleagues' analysis, and share those insights with others—without limiting them to pre-defined questions, wizards, or chart types.

Explore the scientific underpinnings of what enables people to understand data quickly and effectively. Deep dive into the neuroscience of the human visual system works and learn methods for effectively telling compelling data stories.

This is part of the Turning data into knowledge webinar series.

Anyone who's ever analyzed data knows the pain of digging in only to find that it is poorly structured, full of inaccuracies, or just plain incomplete. But "dirty data" isn't just a pain point for analysts; it can have a major financial and cultural impact on an organization.

Watch this webinar to learn four actionable ways to overcome common data preparation issues including how to establish a company standard for "clean data" and how to democratize data prep across your organization.

Speakers:
-Sam Priddy - Data Visualization Guide, Tableau
-Jason Harmer - Data Analytics and Visualization Consultant, Telus
-Gordon Strodel - Information Management and Analytics Consultant, Slalom

Say hello to Explain Data—a new AI-powered feature that helps you understand the “why” behind the values in your data. It provides potential explanations for unexpected data points with a single click.

Curious to see it in action?

Watch this webinar and see how Explain Data is changing the way in which you interact with data. Join Tableau product experts as they outline the technology behind the newest feature and how significant AI innovations are bringing you closer to your data so that you can get answers faster and make better, more meaningful decisions.

Join this webinar to learn how to explore your data with the power of visual analytics, including...

How visual analysis enables you to dig deeper into your data
The secret process for discovering new insights
Tableau does more than produce beautiful visualisations. See for yourself how Tableau takes you on a journey of data exploration to help you find insights that you never expected.

You'll hear from three leading data experts about their process for visually exploring data, helping you to choose the best visualisations that unlock new questions and answers of your data.

What is a dashboard? And does it matter? Should a dashboard fit one screen? Should it provide instant insight? Should it be interactive?

In this webinar, Andy Cotgreave will challenge the traditional definition of a dashboard. He will share his own definition and explain how the purpose of sharing data isn't to fit a particular definition but to fulfill a goal. Andy will show many examples of different dashboards, explaining why they work and how they push the definition of the term "dashboard". Attend this webinar if you want to more effectively engage the users of your dashboards.

Citing real-life case studies from their new book, The Big Book of Dashboards, two data visualization experts will share their proven best practices, based on over 30 years of hands-on experience, for building business dashboards to help you find more insights from your data more quickly.

Attend this webinar and learn how to:

• Build insightful dashboards that work for specific industries and departments
• Turn a dashboard from good to great
• Go BEYOND dashboards

As data privacy has risen in prominence, consumers are more cautious than ever about sharing data. This, in turn, affects how businesses approach data monetisation, collection, and sharing. And with new regulations like GDPR, organisations are faced with crucial questions around data ethics and privacy in the context of their day-to-day business practices.

Attend this webinar where we’ll delve into these 3 key areas:

*Data ethics
*Data privacy
*Data management and processes around data

You know the feeling. You’re in a meeting and the slides are terrible. It’s the charts! They’re too complicated or virtually unreadable. Don’t be that person. Attend this webinar to learn how to create data-informed presentations that make people lean in, not out.

To inform, persuade, and inspire conversations around data, your visualizations must be concise. Andy Cotgreave has attended thousands of meetings and seen all the mistakes. (He’s even made some himself.) Here, he’ll share his tips for making successful big-screen charts. He’ll cover several areas: types of charts for presentations, chart design for big screens, and the physical aspect of presenting charts.

Dashboards are a vital part of any business intelligence (BI) strategy. But there's an unspoken truth: dashboards are always incomplete and out of date. You have new business decisions to make every single day. Do your dashboards change that fast? No.

Fortunately, a good BI strategy can also encourage iteration, curiosity, and flexibility. Learn how to adopt those cultural changes in order to evolve your BI investments beyond dead-end dashboards and towards data-informed decisions.

IT’s role in transformative initiatives is increasing in our digital age. Join Ellie Fields, VP of Product Development, to learn how IT can be a leader with modern analytics and how today’s most successful organizations are driving change with data. Find out how to more confidently and effectively curate, manage, and promote diverse data at scale to enable impactful, data-driven decision-making.

Viewers will discover:
- Tips for scaling your analytics solution to meet your organization's needs
- Strategies to empower your IT teams to drive change with data insights
- Examples of how organizations are transforming their decision-making process with high quality data

Successful dashboards require you to think like a designer. In this webinar, Andy Cotgreave will look at ideas and theories from the world of design, and show how you can apply them to your dashboards. Whether you make functional, operational dashboards, or beautiful persuasive pieces of work, this webinar will help frame your approach.

What is a dashboard? And does it matter? Should a dashboard fit one screen? Should it provide instant insight? Should it be interactive?

In this webinar, Andy Cotgreave will challenge the traditional definition of a dashboard. He will share his own definition and explain how the purpose of sharing data isn't to fit a particular definition but to fulfill a goal. Andy will show many examples of different dashboards, explaining why they work and how they push the definition of the term "dashboard". Attend this webinar if you want to more effectively engage the users of your dashboards.

Excel is great for managing data. But if you want to find powerful insights from your data, Excel can’t do the job on its own - it needs the power of visual analytics.

In this webinar, we’re going to reveal how you can discover a wealth of new insights by using Excel and Tableau together. As Tableau natively connects to Excel, you can keep your spreadsheets whilst digging deeper into your data with fast and easy drag-and-drop analytics.

Watch this webinar to learn how using Excel and Tableau together enhances your analysis, including how to:

*Instantly connect to multiple spreadsheets
*Transform your spreadsheets into a single dashboard
*Spot visual patterns quickly
*Go beyond your initial insights to explore and build stories in your data
*Publish your results online for your team to analyse

The Set Actions feature released with Tableau version 2018.3 unleashes a new world of possibilities in visual analytics. The key connection that Set Actions bring to life is a dramatically increased ability for authors to tightly couple the computation that happens in Tableau to the users' activity.

Join this webinar to see how you as publishers can open up an entirely new world of possibility through a dramatically amplified range of possibilities for the visual computation that can occur when our users make a selection of marks on the screen.

Level of Detail (LOD) Expressions in Tableau introduce an abundance of capabilities for curious data geeks who wish to push the boundaries of Tableau.

Join this his webinar to learn how you can use a number of LOD techniques, including enabling single member drill down, search across a hierarchy, one-click drill down on maps, market basket analysis, and other filter scenarios.