Many leaders and entrepreneurs who took a presentation skills class I recently led at Harvard were looking for tactics to improve how they communicate data. There’s a trick to presenting numbers in an ...
As humans, we have a tendency to look for silver-bullet solutions to difficult problems. One of the latest manifestations of this tendency is overestimating the value of big data. The term big data, ...
The story/stories you tell using the results of your assessments can, (and should), look different depending on the audience, whether it is internal or external, and what the intended message is to be ...
Businesses collect thousands of data points each day, but those that effectively use the data they’re collecting see an average increase of 8 percent in their revenues and an average decrease of 10 ...
As many blog readers may remember, I enjoy reading a daily publication issued by the Harvard Business Review called The Daily Alert that usually contains three short articles on management topics. I ...
It happens regularly. A client or friend will complain that their presentations are dreadful, tedious, painful. In fact, a friend of mine called yesterday and told me her (rather frequent) ...
10 News was there for a networking mixer for anyone interested in data science on Monday. The mission is to grow the participation of women in data science while encouraging women to pursue careers in ...