Practical Data Literacy Bootcamp

Empower your team with practical data literacy skills to deliver greater impact with data

  • Deliver a standardized, repeatable, and certified data literacy team solution

  • Transform your team into proficient and articulate data storytellers

  • Create tangible business change through compelling insights

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Answering the call for data literacy

Through sites like Harvard Business Review (HBR), Gartner and Forbes, managers have become familiar with data literacy as a means to delivering greater impact with data.

Many senior managers know that their teams could deliver greater value to customers and the wider organization, if each team member was more effective with data literacy.

However, many managers are confused about the practicalities of upskilling their teams to the necessary levels of data literacy to deliver positive business outcomes.

The TDWI Data Literacy Bootcamp, delivered by Dave on Data

The TDWI Data Literacy Bootcamp empowers your team with practical skills to deliver far greater impact with data.

This TDWI and Dave on Data delivered training provides a 3-day, TDWI-certified curriculum that leverages your team's basic Microsoft Excel skills to teach data visualization fundamentals, KPI analysis, and data storytelling.

The bootcamp can also be augmented with personalized coaching to ensure the ROI of your training investment.

The outcome?

Your team will acquire the foundational data skills needed to be successful in the data-driven future of business and have more impact.

  • Well-defined set of practical skills and processes for true data literacy

  • Leverages the ubiquity of Microsoft Excel software and skills

  • Guaranteed access to expert coaching to ensure success

  • Certified by TDWI – the globally recognized industry leader in data training

  • Delivered by David Langer, globally recognised data analytics practitioner

  • A focus on the 20% of hands-on data skills that deliver 80% of ROI

Day 1

TDWI Data Visualization Principles and Practices

Data visualization has rapidly become a critical part of business analytics and business communications. Without visualization, the numbers and statistics of analytics are difficult to interpret and incomprehensible to many who need to turn data into business insight.

The advent of big data, with the increasing volume and velocity of data, requires visualization as a technique to compress large volumes of data into digestible presentations and to observe streaming data in motion.

Elegant and well-designed data visualizations often appear to be easy because skilled visual developers are able to hide the complexities and the hard work behind the scenes. Data-literate professionals need to communicate as effectively in visual forms as they do with their verbal and written communication skills. Get your team started by learning the fundamentals of data visualization.

Your Team Will Learn:

  • Visualization as a communication medium

  • Preparing data for visualization

  • Components of visualization

  • Choosing and using charts and graphs

  • Visual exploration and analysis

  • Visual design techniques

  • Extending visualization with infographics

  • Visual storytelling

  • Data visualization tools

Day 2

Business Analysis for Everyone with Excel

As more organizations aim to harness the power of data-driven decisions, the demand has soared for data-literate professionals who can dive into and analyze data. In this hands-on course, your team will learn foundational skills to robustly analyze business data and become a valued data detective.

Many find the prospect of gaining data literacy skills intimidating as they assume that learning advanced statistics is required—not true!

In this class you will learn all the fundamentals of robustly analyzing business data using Microsoft Excel. No fancy Excel functions or complex calculations are required.

You team learn a tool as simple as it is powerful: the process behavior chart. The process behavior chart is a visual tool uniquely suited for the data detective that allows your team to answer questions such as:

  • Given historical business performance, what should we reasonably expect to see in the future?

  • We’ve implemented a new business initiative (e.g., an incentive plan). Is the initiative really working?

  • Is the business performance of Division A actually superior to the business performance of Division B?

With your team’s newly acquired skills, they will be positioned to become not only a data-literate detectives but also trusted advisors providing rigorous, compelling insights into the multitude of KPIs, dashboards, and scorecards so common in today’s organizations.

Want to know the best part? No programming or difficult mathematics are required!

Your Team Will Learn:

  • Basic data concepts: summaries and visualizations

  • Why business data often requires a different style of analysis

  • Data analysis fundamentals

  • The process behavior chart

  • How to build process behavior charts in Excel

  • How to rigorously identify trends/patterns in business data

  • How to rigorously compare groups/collections of business data

  • How to communicate your insights effectively

  • Additional resources to extend your learning

Laptop Setup

Students must bring their own laptop to the class.

Participants should download and install the following BEFORE the class:

  • Microsoft Excel 2016 or later

NOTE - The class materials assume Microsoft Excel on Windows, but Excel on Mac can be used.

Day 3

Data Storytelling for Business Impact

The explosion of data has made data visualization a core competency for organizations as insights can no longer be derived from rows and columns. Analytical insights start and end with the story and storytelling skills are essential for understanding the message and gaining value from the data. Storytelling involves understanding the message, the audience, and crafting the visuals to deliver insights to stakeholders.

Your Team Will Learn:

  • How to define context of the story

  • How to identify the appropriate visual design

  • How to streamline the design for story clarity

  • How to see the story from the stakeholder’s view

  • How to leverage best practices in visual design

  • How to leverage best practices in storytelling

  • Applying the storytelling process to case studies

 

FAQs

  • Yes. The data literacy bootcamp is a TDWI certified training program.

  • Yes! The bootcamp can be delivered either virtually or in-person with your team.

  • Yes, the training can be delivered in smaller chunks. Contact us to discuss your needs and what is possible.

  • Absolutely not! This bootcamp is designed for ANY team - regardless of role/background. No background in math or programming is required.

  • Negative. This bootcamp assumes only a basic level of skill with Excel. If your team can work with simple Excel tables and charts, they are good to go.

  • The Data Literacy Accelerator consulting offering is designed to be your data literacy “easy button.” Dave will work with you to quickly build a data literacy program using a standardized process and curriculum tailored for your needs.

  • Day 2 of the bootcamp has 5 hands-on labs worked by students during class.