In-depth Actionable Training from the Comfort of Your Own Desk

Prerequisite: None

Mark Peco

CBIP

Analytics Consultant and Instructor

Mark Peco, CBIP, is an experienced consultant, educator, and team builder. With graduate and undergraduate degrees in engineering from the University of Waterloo, he helps clients identify and build the necessary analytics capabilities that will drive business impact.

As a leading practitioner of business intelligence and analytics, Mark is a faculty member of TDWI and teaches companies on a global basis how to implement and govern “intelligent” business solutions. He is CBIP certified at the mastery level and maintains his professional focus at the intersection of business, operations, and technology. Mark has several years of energy industry experience based on a variety of roles in the pipeline, distribution, and production sectors.

Mark lives in the Toronto area and can be contacted via email.

Course Outline

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 knowledge. 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. Business intelligence and business analytics professionals need to communicate as effectively in visual forms as they do with their verbal and written communication skills. Get started by learning the fundamentals of data visualization.

You 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

Geared To

• Business analysts and data analysts
• Data scientists and analytics modelers
• Business analytics leaders and managers
• BI leaders and managers
• Anyone who uses data to develop charts and graphs for communication