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Leadership Perspectives
Making Sense of Data with Tableau – Episode 2 – Vanitha Lucas on Data for Good
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Governments, businesses, non-profits, and academia have tremendous potential to use data to help move forward on their sustainable development goals to make the world a better place. In this second episode of our five-part series on data analytics, Vanitha Lucas talks with host Takara Small about how data can be used to promote social change and what problems data can help solve.
About our guest:
Vanitha Lucas considers herself to be a data and analytics philanthropist. Strongly believing in the power of data and analytics to serve the greater good; she is dedicating herself to raising awareness and influencing change on societal issues. She volunteers as Executive Director at Viz for Social Good and has helped organizations globally harness the power of data to advance their missions. Vanitha leads Tableau Customer Success for Canadian Financial Services at Salesforce.
This is the second 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