TDWI Nashville

Level: Intermediate to Advanced

Prerequisite: None

Donald Farmer

Principal

TreeHive Strategy

Even today, analytics is mostly about decision support: giving the right information at the right time in the right format to help make better decisions. In this course, we explore how we can design analytics to better support decision making for maximum business impact. In order to do this, we must explore some of the ways in which decisions are made—especially business decisions. There’s plenty of analytics technology to cover, and we will also explore business processes and even some psychology!

You Will Learn

• Some background on human decision making processes
• How to identify decision inputs and outputs and design analytics to support these decisions
• The important of user experience and user interface design in supporting decisions, including visualization
• The difference between real-time and right-time systems, and how to match analytics to the business need accordingly
• The importance of collaborative decision making, including storytelling
• The role of governance in modern decision making

Geared To

• Business analysts
• BI and analytics developers and designers
• BI and analytics managers
• Data architects