Empowered by Data: How to Build Inspired Analytics Communities

✍ Scribed by Eva Murray

• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 189
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Learn to build an analytics community in your organization from scratch

How to Build a Data Community shows readers how to create analytics and data communities within their organizations. Celebrated author Eva Murray relies on intuitive and practical advice structured as step-by-step guidance to demonstrate the creation of new data communities.

How to Build a Data Community uses concrete insights gleaned from real-world case studies to describe, in full detail, all the critical components of a data community. Readers will discover:

• What analytics communities are and what they look like
• Why data-driven organizations need analytics communities
• How selected businesses and nonprofits have applied these concepts successfully and what their journey to a data-driven culture looked like.
• How they can establish their own communities and what they can do to ensure their community grows and flourishes

Perfect for analytics professionals who are responsible for making policy-level decisions about data in their firms, the book is also a must-have for data practitioners and consultants who wish to make positive changes in the organizations with which they work.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Part I
Chapter 1 If You Want a Data Culture, Build a Community
Why Do Organizations Aim to Become Data-Driven?
What Does Data Give Us that Experience Cannot?
What Does a Data-Driven Culture Look Like?
Chapter 2 What Is an Analytics Community?
#MakeoverMonday, the Social Data Project that Changes Visualizations and Lives
Characteristics of the #MakeoverMonday Community
People of the #MakeoverMonday Community
Lessons from the #MakeoverMonday Community
Chapter 3 Building a Data Visualization Community at the USAA
Part II
Chapter 4 Benefits of Setting Up Communities
Benefits for an Organization
Direct Benefits
Indirect Benefits
Benefits for the Analytics Industry
Growing Technical and Soft Skills
Faster Progress
Building a Global Network of Experts
Benefits for the Individual
Learning and Development
Access to Experts
Experience Job Enrichment and Satisfaction
Building Something of Value for the Organization
Chapter 5 Why Are Communities Important?
What Communities Give to the Individual
What Each of Us Brings to a Community
How to Foster Constructive Connections in Your Analytics Community
Feedback
Transparency
Listening
Regular Reviews
Chapter 6 Addressing Potential Risks for Your Community
Distraction
Encourage People to Share Their Preferred Working Styles
Groupthink/Echo Chamber
Finding Diversity Across Your Organization
Inviting External Input
Analyze Your Community
Lack of Buy-in
Disruptors
Chapter 7 Practical Guides for Getting Started
Purpose and Mission
Structure
Processes
People
Activities
Training and Development
Collaborative Challenges
Meetups
Internal Conferences
Online Portal
Templates
Small Events and Short Activities (< 3 hours)
Getting Started
Chapter 8 What Are the Success Factors for Your Community?
Specific Targets and Outputs
Communicating Your Goals and Intentions
Getting External Input
Driving Engagement in Your Community
Chapter 9 How to Set Up an Analytics Community
Phase 1: Planning
Example
Phase 2: Pilot
Example
Phase 3: Growth
Potential Obstacles to Your Community’s Growth
Phase 4: Development
Formalizing Your Community Structure
Formalizing Your Community Processes
Creating a Structured Learning and Development Program
Summary
Chapter 10 Lessons Learned
How Not to Do It
Unsustainable Levels of Commitment
Finding a Better Way to Give Effective Feedback
Experimenting with Different Platforms
Other Examples of Overcommitment
Who Are the Right People to Lead Your Community?
Examples of Leaders in Analytics Communities
How Communities Find Their Leaders and What Challenges the Leaders Faced Along the Way
Community Champions and the Impact They Have
How to Assign Roles and Responsibilities
Alteryx User Group
St. Joseph’s University
Part III
Chapter 11 Where to Go from Here
Your Roadmap
What Does Your Future Community Look Like?
What Are Your Goals?
Community Vision and Roadmap
Setting Goals
Documentation and Building a Knowledge Portal
Documentation
Building a Knowledge Portal
Automate
Delegate
Ask for Help
Conclusion
Index
EULA