Empowered By Data - How to Build Inspired Analytics Communities

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.

List of contents

Foreword ix
 
Acknowledgments xi
 
Part I 1
 
Chapter 1 If You Want a Data Culture, Build a Community 3
 
Why Do Organizations Aim to Become Data-Driven? 4
 
What Does Data Give Us that Experience Cannot? 5
 
What Does a Data-Driven Culture Look Like? 6
 
Chapter 2 What is an Analytics Community? 9
 
#MakeoverMonday, the Social Data Project that Changes Visualizations and Lives 10
 
Chapter 3 Building a Data Visualization Community at the USAA 23
 
Part II 27
 
Chapter 4 Benefits of Setting Up Communities 29
 
Benefits for an Organization 29
 
Benefits for the Analytics Industry 43
 
Benefits for the Individual 45
 
Chapter 5 Why Are Communities Important? 49
 
What Communities Give to the Individual 50
 
What Each of Us Brings to a Community 52
 
How to Foster Constructive Connections in Your Analytics Community 53
 
Chapter 6 Addressing Potential Risks for Your Community 59
 
Distraction 60
 
Groupthink/Echo Chamber 62
 
Lack of Buy-in 63
 
Disruptors 64
 
Chapter 7 Practical Guides for Getting Started 67
 
Purpose and Mission 67
 
Structure 68
 
Processes 70
 
People 71
 
Activities 71
 
Templates 77
 
Getting Started 93
 
Chapter 8 What Are the Success Factors for Your Community? 95
 
Specific Targets and Outputs 96
 
Communicating Your Goals and Intentions 99
 
Getting External Input 101
 
Driving Engagement in Your Community 103
 
Chapter 9 How to Set Up an Analytics Community 105
 
Phase 1: Planning 105
 
Phase 2: Pilot 109
 
Phase 3: Growth 111
 
Phase 4: Development 116
 
Summary 125
 
Chapter 10 Lessons Learned 127
 
How Not to Do It 127
 
Who Are the Right People to Lead Your Community? 133
 
How to Assign Roles and Responsibilities 142
 
Part III 147
 
Chapter 11 Where to Go from Here 149
 
Your Roadmap 149
 
What Does Your Future Community Look Like? 150
 
What Are Your Goals? 152
 
Documentation and Building a Knowledge Portal 157
 
Automate 159
 
Delegate 160
 
Ask for Help 161
 
Conclusion 163
 
Index 165

About the author

EVA MURRAY is a Technology Evangelist and passionate about helping people collaborate around data. She has built a global community of passionate data enthusiasts and is helping organizations worldwide do the same.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: E Murray, Eva Murray, Murray Eva
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781119705659
• ISBN: 978-1-119-70565-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; Finanzwesen, Finance & Investments, Finanz- u. Anlagewesen, Spezialthemen Finanz- u. Anlagewesen, Finance & Investments Special Topics