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Leadership Perspectives
Making Sense of Data with Tableau – Episode 1 – Ashley Howard Neville on Data Literacy for All
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With massive amounts of data generated every day in organizations, knowing what data is, how to analyze it, and how to communicate and share it is becoming an increasingly necessary skill for everyone. In this first episode of our five-part series on data analytics, Ashley Howard Neville talks with host Takara Small about why everyone should care about data literacy as well as what workers can do to help future-proof their careers.
About our guest:
Ashley Howard Neville is a Senior Evangelist with Tableau. As a business-minded technologist and evangelist of self-service data, Ashley brings over a decade of experience leading cross-functional efforts to grow adoption of analytics platforms at Fortune 500 companies. She is a data and analytics thought leader who enjoys learning and sharing insights on how to transform large, global companies to successfully leverage data platform investments and develop programmatic support to build successful cultures of self-service analytics.
This is the first episode of Making Sense of Data, a mini-series from Tableau and The Conference Board of Canada. Access all of our research at conferenceboard.ca
Links
Bridging the data literacy gap between academia and the workforce - https://www.tableau.com/about/blog/2021/6/bridging-data-literacy-gap-between-academia-and-workforce