Name: The true cost of dirty data: 4 ways to tackle common data prep issues
Start: 2023-01-12T17:00:00Z
End: 2023-01-12T17:01:01.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Tableau’s mission is to help people see and understand data. Our platform makes visual analytics intuitive, allowing people to quickly answer questions with data and share insights across their organization. Global enterprises, early-stage startups, nonprofits, and governments all use Tableau to quickly transform their raw data into powerful and actionable insights.

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 only come up short. If so, you’re not alone. Where does this disconnect come from – and what can you do about it?

In this webinar, see real-world examples of visualizations that people have employed that truly changed the way their organizations did business, and learn how you can apply these principles to your own organization. Topics covered inside include:

• Visualizations that changed the world: Why you shouldn’t follow their lead
• Real-world visualization success stories across different industries
• The visualization lessons you can apply to your business
• And more

Visual analytics in the real world: Lessons to apply to your business

When you are trying to understand and find key insights from your data, where do you begin?

There are two popular approaches to visual data exploration: data visualization and visual analytics. Both methods can help you to better understand your data, and this webinar will show you why.

Inside, discover how visual analysis makes it easy for you to deconstruct your data, quickly identify trends and correlations, get to the bottom of all sticky questions, and improve your reporting efficiency. Topics covered inside include:

• The advantages of visual analysis over traditional analysis
• How to take the first step in visual data exploration - answering the 'what' questions
• How visual analytics lets you dig deeper into your data - the power of asking 'why'
• And more

Data visualization vs. visual analytics

When it comes to achieving the best data visual analytics capabilities around, pairing Tableau with Snowflake can be a real game changer. Access this webinar to discover what makes the Tableau/Snowflake partnership so unique, and what it means for your business.

Snowflake's unique shared data architecture is scalable and supports both structured and semi-structured data. Learn more about how this strategy can help you:

• Establish an enterprise-wide single source of truth
• Use dashboards to monitor Snowflake costs, performance, and user adoption
• Break down data silos, unite teams, and unleash the power of data
• And more

Visual analytics: Benefits of pairing Tableau with Snowflake

Your data insights won’t do your organization any good if they’re locked up in local files and email attachments, or otherwise inaccessible. At the same time, you can’t risk exposing the security of your data. What’s the business leader to do?

This webinar provides a roadmap for extending the value of your data across your entire organization. Topics covered inside include:
• The importance of sharing your data
• The main challenges of sharing data
• Roadmap to sharing: Solutions in Tableau
• And more

Defeat inaccessible analytics: Best practices for sharing data insights

Organizations across every industry are using data to make powerful transformations happen. It’s becoming increasingly clear that data is imperative for navigating today’s digital reality – but how, exactly, is the data and analytics landscape changing?

This webinar counts down three strong trends that are impacting the future of data and analytics and shines a light on what you can do to establish long-term data success. Topics covered inside include:

• Data in the digital age: Real-world, cross-industry success stories
• Essential data management features, functions, and capabilities
• The future of analytics: Top concerns vs. what’s exciting IT leaders
• And more

3 trends defining the future of analytics

Unexpected data points can bewilder even the seasoned data pro. But the power of AI is helping to demystify these unexpected results. 

This webinar introduces Explain Data – a new AI-powered feature that helps you understand the “why” behind the values in your data. Topics covered inside include:

• The technology behind Explain Data
• The role of AI innovation in the data future
• Explain Data in action: How to use this tool
• And more

Explain Data: AI demystifies the “why” behind the values in your data

The hardest part of being an analyst isn’t building the dashboard, it’s getting the data in a state where you can gain insights. Data is always messy, in many different places (and often different platforms) making the backend work take up the majority of the time to create a dashboard.

This webinar provides a deep dive into the nuanced process of building a dataset and dashboard that will be fully utilized. Inside, find key steps and best practices for building, testing, and delivering a thoughtful analysis.

The data abyss: Build, test, and deliver actionable data insights

If a perfectly designed dashboard has zero engagement, is it truly a perfect design?

Truth is, your data is only as impactful as the dashboards you use – and failing to follow good dashboard design practices can limit the value you’re able to extract from your data and stymie decision-making altogether.

This webinar counts down five essential elements of a successful dashboard design to help you unlock the full potential of your data. That’s not all in store – topics also covered include:

• Why good data visualization is important
• Historical dashboard design “rules” (that you should ignore)
• How to design a dashboard that people actually want to use
• And more

Dashboard design 101: Five essential elements

Excel is everywhere – but finding the insights you need can be an arduous and time-consuming process. And in today’s data-centric world, where speed is the name of the game, businesses capable of unlocking these insights faster are gaining a distinct competitive advantage.

This webinar introduces a strategy for visually analyzing your spreadsheets in order to accelerate data insights and unlock hidden value. Topics covered inside include:

• Common pain points solved by combining Excel with visual analytics
• What this strategy looks like in practice
• Q&A: Top visual analytics questions, answered
• And more

Find insights hidden in your spreadsheets: The power of visual analytics

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.

This webinar introduces a data visualization tool that natively connects to Excel, enabling you to keep your spreadsheets whilst digging deeper into your data with fast and user-friendly drag-and-drop analytics.

Inside, learn how using Excel and Tableau together enhances your analysis, and gives you the power 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 analyze
• And more

How to use data visualization with Excel for stronger analysis

Visual analytics enables finance teams to better understand the health of their operations. But where, exactly, can you use this strategy to enable more meaningful analysis and true business value?

Watch this webinar to learn how Tableau’s finance leaders use their dashboards to better understand data from spreadsheets and financial systems in real-time. Focus areas include:

• Accounts Receivable: Get real-time insights by account or region
• Treasury: Your cash flow and running balance made easy to understand
• Cost Control: See the dashboard which saves Tableau thousands of dollars each month
• Profitability: Build your own profitability dashboard with variance analysis
• Office Occupancy: Cut costs by mapping the occupancy rate of your global offices
• Purchasing: Get the best value from suppliers by visualizing your PO spend

Visual analytics use cases in finance

Today, business survival hinges on the ability to make fast, fact-based decisions – but many organizations don’t realize just how much faster (and more accurate) their decision-making would be if they were better at data visualization. So how do you get there?

In this webinar, best-selling author Steve Wexler counts down six things that every business leader should know about data visualization – including:

• Why “just the numbers” isn't good enough
• The “gateway drug” to data visualization
• Why we see so many bar charts

Learn more about each of these points – and uncover the rest – inside.

6 data visualization facts every data leader needs to know

In an increasingly complex world, organizations everywhere are making some of their biggest 
bets on data and technology. Innovation is having a profound impact on the way work now gets done, shifting how data informs decision making. At Tableau, we want to help you be 
competitive and successfully navigate these rapid changes. Hear from leading experts in data 
and analytics on our top 5 emerging trends around:

1. Artificial intelligence (AI)
2. Workforce development
3. Flexible governance
4. Data equity
5. Ethics

...and what that means for your organization this year. 

Seeing and understanding data has never been more critical to your organization or role–
regardless of whether you’re an IT leader managing your company’s data strategy, a business 
leader responsible for scaling business analytics or Data Culture, or forecasting important 
metrics like sales performance. 

Learn how these top trends of 2022 can help you prioritize strategies and achieve organizational success with data

The top 5 data trends that will shape 2022

Learn how Tableau's entire finance organisation uses Tableau to understand all of our data.

Here at Tableau, our finance team use data and visual analytics everyday to better understand the financial health of our EMEA operations—giving our executive team the answers they need.

Watch this webinar with our finance leaders to see the Tableau dashboards they use to better understand data from spreadsheets and financial systems in real-time. You'll learn how Tableau can help you spend less time building reports and more hours doing meaningful analysis that generates real business value.

See our financial dashboards including:

Accounts Receivable. Get real-time insights by account or region.
Treasury. Your cash flow and running balance made easy to understand.
Cost Control. See the dashboard which saves Tableau thousands of dollars each month.
Profitability - Live Demo. Build your own profitability dashboard with variance analysis.
Office Occupancy. Cut costs by mapping the occupancy rate of your global offices.
Purchasing. Get the best value from suppliers by visualising your PO spend.

How Tableau Uses Tableau for Finance

You may (or may not) be surprised to hear that data scientists spend a staggering 80% of their time on data prep activities. Dirty data – that is, data that’s poorly structured, full of inaccuracies, or just plain incomplete – is a source of constant headaches, but it can also have a severe impact on your bottom line.

This webinar examines the cost of dirty data and counts down four ways to tackle common data prep issues so that you can devote more time to more valuable data activities. Inside, learn:

• Why dirty data happens
• The impact and annual costs of poor data quality
• Four common data prep issues (and how to solve them)
• And more

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