Data Comics meet cricket data in the irrepressible “Data to Stories”
Want to know how to create engaging Data Comics? Love cricket? Then “Data to Stories” is the book for you. Here’s what analysts can learn.
Tag: impact
March 22, 2022
Thinking with Data helps you turn information into insights
Book review of “Thinking with Data”. Uncovering how a short book really can help you develop the thinking skills needed to generate insights.
Your Data Storytelling needs less data and more stories (part 2 of 2)
Part two of series on Data Storytelling. Why you need more of a focus one story & not just data viz, plus how to learn from South Park & GOT.
The journey of developing vital Soft Skills in analytical leaders
A review of “Soft Skills Hard Results” by Anne Taylor and why this busy book is helpful for data & analytics leaders is read in the right way
3 all too common mistakes analysts make when contracting for work
Start of a series on 10 all too common mistakes analysts make. In this post I share 3 that analysts make when contracting/agreeing brief.
How to measure the ROI of your Analytics team: Part 2 = incremental profit
Harry Powell, Director of Data & Analytics at JLR explains how he calculates the incremental profit his team generates down to an income line
How to measure the ROI of your Analytics team: Part 1 = Profit
Why you Analytics team needs a measure of their ROI. Harry Powell argues for the benefits of profit as the best metric of the value-added.
Why your Customer Insight or Analytics team needs a purpose
Explaining why your Customer Insight or Analytics team needs a purpose, sharing 3 popular themes for such a purpose & how you can get started.
Using Hackathons to go from zero to business impact in a week
We’ve shared before the lessons that can be learnt from Design Thinking and the potential benefit of Hackathons. Although previously reserved to tech companies or […]
The future of AI and your working life – start planning
The future of AI & threat to our jobs is a popular topic for news recently. But here is a positively helpful book to help […]
Longer reflections on subjective reality, comics and research
A number of our previous posts are just short blogs posts, with tips for researchers, this time I’ll share longer reflections. In addition to my […]
When you can get most ‘bang for your buck’ out of analytics
Over many years creating, leading or advising insight teams, I’m often surprised which analytics has the most impact. Often it’s not the most technically complex, nor the […]