This document discusses building a data fluent organization. It defines data fluency as the ability to use data to fluidly exchange and explore ideas within an organization. It presents a data fluency framework with four quadrants: data literate consumers, data producers, data fluent culture, and a supportive data ecosystem. The framework provides examples and recommendations for developing skills and processes to improve an organization's data fluency.
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Building a Data Fluent Organization
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Building a
DATA FLUENT
ORGANIZATION
Zach Gemignani,
Founder & CEO, Juice Analytics
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Improvements
More about what data fluency means. Flows of information
From data to action
Data is expensive. Information is valuable.
Culture slide is boring.
Data producers —> authors
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1. Three short stories… What do they have in common? Show that data is the new language. And people
2. At Juice, we are known for our ability to visually communicate with data. At the same time, we’ve worke
But when Nathan Yau and Wiley asked us to write a book — after 10 years of blogging, white paper (cred
3. What is data fluency?
What is at stake? Why does it matter? Informed decisions; organizational alignment; digital divide;
4. How do you do it: Explain/build framework. Four quadrants — What it is + example + our recommendat
5. What does that mean for me? What can I do? — personally, professionally
Outline
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Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
— The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner, Samuel Coleridge
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Big Data
Has big data failed to meet expectations?
Gartner Hype Cycle
Forbes, 2/14/14
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We need to refine data into products and
decisions that drive your organization
forward
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Spreadsheet
proliferation
Lack of BI adoption
Ivory-tower analytics
Stuck data warehouse
projects
Many, disparate
data sources
Inaccessible
reporting
Lack of management
support for data projects
Data scientists
Dashboards
Data visualization and
storytelling
Big Data Technologies
ROI-justification of
data projects
Self-service BI
Master Data
Management
Cross-trained
analysts
Lots of problems, lots of solutions
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What does it take for an organization to be
able to unlock the value in their data?
What skills, culture, processes and
technologies are required?
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Data fluency: the ability to use the
language of data to fluidly
exchange and explore ideas
within your organization.
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People & skills
Communication
Leadership
Technology
More data
Tools
The focus of data fluency
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Data product
authoring
Data fluent
culture
Data
ecosystem
Data literate
consumers
Data Fluency Framework
Data Consumers Data Producers
Individual
Organization
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Language of
data
Critical
consumer
How to find
insights
Data sources
Data Literate Consumers
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Fantasy Football
25 million football
fans transformed
into sophisticated
data consumers
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Message &
audience
Data visualization
Data storytelling
Form, aesthetics
User actions
Data Producers
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Data Fluent Culture
Leaders set expectations
Shared language
Well-understood key metrics
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Apple App Ecosystem
iOS SDK
Developer rules & tools
App Store sales and reviews
iOS device users
App Store
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Development tools
Standards and
training
Feedback and
improvement
Discoverability and
sharing
Data users
Data Ecosystem
An environment that supports fluid movement and
sharing of ideas through data
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Ability to
understand and
draw meaning
from data
products
Skills to create
effective data
products
Ecosystem for
building and
sharing data
products
Foundation for
common
interpretation of
data products
Data Fluency Framework
Data Consumers Data Producers
Individual
Organization
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So you’ve got Big Data…
You have all the data and
technology you need
Data is only as good as the people
using it
Shared understanding and
communication is the missing link
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Our perspective
A decade of working with
businesses who wonder:
“How can I get more value
from my data?”
• Web dashboards
• Visualizations
• Analytical tools
We work with great companies!
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Editor's Notes
However, our experience in many organizations feel more reminiscent of the famous poem “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. Particularly this line: “Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink”. Data is everywhere, but it seldom seems to quench the thirst for smarter decision. As a side-note, this poem originated the phrase “albatross around your neck.” — which is how a lot of CIOs feel with both the data and expectations getting bigger.
Big data is hot. And the stories about what can be done with big data are tantalizing. IBM has done a particularly good job of stoking interest — data can make doctors smarter, deliver exactly the right product to the right customer. Expectations are high because it feels like there are near-endless possibilities given all the data available.
Let me share a couple examples: We’ve been working with a large healthcare informatics company — a company that literally specializes in analyzing and reporting on data. But like a lot of companies, complexity rules. They need to report to their hundreds of customers. But to do so…
And they have made multiple efforts to clarify and simplify this process, always derailed by a culture that prizes complexity
If data is like oil, we need the ability to transform oil in to entry
In many ways, data is like oil - and it is certainly so in the economic engine of your organization. Just like you can't pull crude oil from the ground and pump it directly into your gas tank, or mold it into a plastic Lego, you can’t dump data into an organization and expect it to grow. Creating value from data is a complex puzzle, one that few organizations have solved. While there isn't a simple answer (and thus why so many organizations struggle), the good news is that understanding the nature of the problem offers a starting point for our path forward
The problem with data is that everyone is touching a different part of the elephant.
Specifically, the problem might be lack of management support, lack of end-user adoption, poorly defined requirements. And for each of these issues, there has emerged a solution that can help solve for that pieces of the puzzle. Data visualization….Hadoop…more data scientists…self-service BI.
This is the puzzle we want to piece together…specifically…
This is the subject of a book I’m writing with a few colleagues which will be published in the fall.
The answer we have come to revolves around this phrase: DATA FLUENCY. We define it as the shared ability to: speak the language of data, exchange and understand data, create tools to facilitate this exchange of data.
Sure, data fluency requires analytical tools, the ability to handle and manipulate big data. But that isn’t what it is about. On balance, it is more about communication, people with data skills, and…perhaps most importantly…leadership and expectations to build data fluency in an organization.
This is how we think about it. To us, Data Fluency requires capabilities both at an individual level and an organization level. In addition, it exists for both consumers of information and for those people who create the reports, dashboards, and analyses…data product authors.
Introduce you to the four players…
How do you create people who can understand data in the same way as they read an e-mail? What does it take for someone to be data literate? They need to understand where data comes from; how to find insights in that data; be an educated and critical consumer of “data products”; and speak the language of data
When I talk about data consumer — I’m talking about people who have become comfortable with working with data. Fantasy football offers an awesome example. Who here plays a fantasy football? Don’t look now, but we’ve been taught how to think about data, how to read charts, consider probabilities, combine data with context (injuries)
What makes a great data producer?
Those are the consumers of data. How about the people who author the data products? A data fluent organization needs a healthy group of these people with the skills to design reports, dashboards, analyze data and create the presentation that explains the analysis.
Leadership: Setting expectations; Actions to demonstrate commitment
Shared understanding: Key metric: what is important?; Data sources: what can be trusted?; Terminology: what does it mean?
Everyday commitment: Training data consumers; Quality data products; Data in discussions
People — those who can communicate it and those who understand it
Let me start by giving you a sense of where we come from on questions of data. Since the founding of Juice, we’ve generally worked on the business-side, consulting with executives who feel they have access to valuable data but wonder how to unleash this value. Our focus has always been on how this data can be better communicated and presented to get the right data into decision-makers hands…in a form they can understand. We’ve worked across many industries, but have a particularly deep experience in healthcare, and advertising and media.