Thank you to everyone who attended my SQLPass Business Intelligence Virtual Chapter webinar! I have lots of questions to follow up, from both during and after the event. Please watch this space for more responses to questions over the next few days, and I will try to ensure that I answer every question. The slides are at the bottom of this blog post.
I’ve provided references below to some of the Data Visualisation people and material that I mentioned today. I hope that these are useful to you.
Stephen Few – Stephen has written a number of books, which you can find at his site – there is a wealth of information there! If you’re a fan of data visualisation, then you should consider his blog, Perceptual Edge, a must-read. In particular, I’d like to shout out the following books:
Malcolm Gladwell – Malcolm has a great deal of interesting things to say on a whole range of topics, and I’m never going to be able to introduce him properly.
Hans Rosling – What I love about Rosling’s work, is that he highlights health and social factors, poverty and health. This is data visualisation in action, to help people in poor circumstances – the sort of people who cannot always read what is written about them. He promotes a ‘fact-based’ world view on these issues. The YouTube video of Rosling’s data visualisation is below, which was made by BBC4.
I should add that I’m not in any way associated with this video – but I get asked about it a lot, so I’ve embedded it here from YouTube.
Here are the slides from today. I look forward to your comments, and I will answer the remaining questions in due course.
-J
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Jennifer Stirrup is the Founder and CEO of Data Relish, a UK-based AI and Business Intelligence leadership boutique consultancy delivering data strategy and business-focused solutions. Jen is a recognized leading authority in AI and Business Intelligence Leadership, a Fortune 100 global speaker, and has been named as one of the Top 50 Global Data Visionaries, one of the Top Data Scientists to follow on Twitter and one of the most influential Top 50 Women in Technology worldwide.
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I watched your presentation live. Thanks for sharing – the presentation was useful and interesting.
One topic I would like to hear more about is closing that gap from long data refresh cycles to the new user expectation of fresh (15 minute) data.