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Leadership Perspectives
Making Sense of Data with Tableau – Episode 4 – Tamara Augsten on Fostering a Citizen Driven Analytics Culture
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Organizations often struggle with fostering a data and analytics culture to the detriment of their analytics programs. In this fourth episode of our five-part series on data analytics, Tamara Augsten talks with host Takara Small about her work with data visualization and how organizations can build a culture that makes workers excited to engage in data analytics.
About our guest:
Tamara Augsten uses her background in data analysis and urban planning to visualize, mobilize and translate data in a meaningful, accessible and engaging ways to inform planning and policy. She currently works with Toronto Public Health at the City of Toronto and develops data visualization tools for the COVID-19 pandemic response for both internal and public audiences. The public-facing dashboards she has contributed to have received over 30 million views. Previously to her work at Toronto Public Health, she led Raising the Village – an initiative to provide communities with data and research to measure the well-being of Toronto's children and families.
This is the fourth 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
Additional Links
Mapping Police Violence - https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/ (Mentioned in the interview)
New York Times Data Visualization - https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/graphics (Mentioned in the Interview)