Happy New Year AOF community! To kick off 2018, like many of you, I scoured the internet to see which analytics predictions and trends were being discussed. After reviewing 80+ predictions (some good, some bad) from top news sites & influencers, two things are clear. One. Artificial Intelligence is the new Business Intelligence. Companies will either embrace it or get left behind. Two. The ability to tell visual stories is now required to ensure the success of future AI/BI projects. As the founder of one of the top data visual storytelling workshops in the market, I invite you to join me and here is why…
In 2012 as “big data” emerged, we saw the need to quickly create visual data stories. Today our visual storytelling templates have been used globally by many Fortune 1000 companies and we want to show you why!
Our BI Dashboard Formula (BIDF) Methodology continues to benefit and evolve from the feedback from 100’s of our students and customers. In our workshops, we share the same techniques that help BI Brainz to create compelling data stories and visualizations for some of the world’s leading organizations.
Here are five things you’ll take away from our top-rated workshops:
- An understanding of why visual storytelling is the most effective way to communicate your data in 2018
- How to score, interpret, and increase your personal data visualization literacy score
- How to create a great four-part data story in a matter of days, not weeks!
- Proven techniques to reduce your requirements gathering time by up to 50%
- Access to real-world use cases you can immediately apply to your data story!
Workshop Pre-requisites
Our visual storytelling workshops are 100% tool agnostic, 100% hands-on, and non-technical. The techniques taught can be applied by anyone who wants to master data. As an attendee, you will work in teams to implement lessons taught in a series of short lectures. You will work using post-its and whiteboards to maximize your creative energy! No laptop is required. Come well rested, with an open mind. Any experience gathering requirements for any type of analytics project before is helpful, but not required.
Online Course
For those of you who cannot attend one of my live workshops, you can join me online for my BI Data Storytelling Mastery course where you will learn how to easily set up, build, and design your first compelling data story!
Registration includes:
- Exclusive access to our private Facebook group
- Live Q&A’s
- Digital copy of my book, Dataviz for Dummies
- Printed 20×16 Storyboard template (if you live in the US, digital if you live outside the US)
- BIDS Toolkit (proven templates, checklist & more).
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2018 Data Visual Storytelling Workshops
1. Oct 15 | Phoenix, USA – #PowerUGSummit
Workshop Title: The Art of Data Storytelling-How to Create the Perfect Data Narrative and Visualize it!
Location: Phoenix Convention Center – Phoenix, AZ
Cost: Varies
This full-day, hands-on workshop will take your understanding of analytics to the next level by helping you learn the implications behind choosing the right charts, the impact of color, shape, and size, and finally the use of Power BI custom visuals.
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2. Nov 11 | Seattle, USA – #PASSSummit
Workshop Title: The Art & Science of Designing Smart Data Stories
Location: Washington State Convention Center – Seattle, WA
Cost: Varies
Whether you are a BI beginner or veteran, this 100% hands-on, non-technical workshop will teach you how to take KPI/metrics and transform them into a compelling data story! By working in teams with your peers, you will apply the techniques you learned during the short lectures immediately to a real-world use case. The workshop is 20% lecture and 80% hands-on.
Be sure to use code EXH18SUM to save $100 off registration and stop by our BI Brainz booth!
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Great pre-con session on #DataVisualization and #StoryBoarding by @micoyuk today at #PASSSummit!
— Victor Rocca (@Power_of_BI) October 31, 2017
3. Mar 19 | London, UK – #BIDF #datavizstories
Workshop Title: Visual Storytelling 101 (Based on BI Dashboard Formula Methodology)
Location: IOD Pall Mall Burton Room – London, UK
Cost: Varies
This one-day intensive workshop promises to deliver big value, as you join me and our London based, EU CEO, Nicolas Henry. We will not only deliver big on real-world insights and techniques, but you can expect to hear from some of our existing customers on their visual storytelling journey using our templates. This is our first London workshop and we are expecting to sell out. See you there!
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Preparing KPI definition workshop with top executives particiption of customer org. Thank God I can draw on materials from #BIDF by @micoyuk
— Raphael Branger (@rbranger) November 9, 2017
4. Mar 12-14 | Joburg, South Africa – #MasteringSAP
Workshop Title: Visual Storytelling 101
Location: The Hyatt Regency – Johannesburg, ZA
Cost: 13,450R – 14,950R (ZAR)
Join me and BI Brainz MEA, CEO, Jacques du Preez as we give our first joint workshop and session together in Joburg. You will walk away not only with our latest techniques, but also a set of local use-cases you can apply to your existing analytics projects immediately. As an added bonus, attend our joint session on building KPIs during the event or drop by our booth to discuss your analytics needs! We plan to deliver a powerhouse of value.
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"In God we trust. Everyone else bring data." #bat16sa #funny #thoughtprovoking @micoyuk
— Viven (@vivendran) March 15, 2016
5. Feb 25 | Nevada, USA – #BIHANA2018
Workshop Title: (Pre-Conference Workshop) Visual storytelling: How to make your data visualizations more intelligent, actionable, and useful
Location: Bellagio Hotel and Casino – Las Vegas, NV
Cost: $999 – $2,299 (save $550 before Jan 19, 2018)
This 4-hour workshop is going to be jammed packed with all the good stuff! Learn our top tips, techniques, and strategies to elevate your existing metrics then turn them into a compelling data story your users will love!
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6. Feb 6 | Kingston, Jamaica – #BIDF #datavizstories
Workshop Title: Visual Storytelling 101 (Based on BI Dashboard Formula Methodology)
Location: Knutsford Court Hotel (Grand Caribbean Suite)
Cost: $25,000 JMD
Calling all Caribbean data beginners/veterans who want to jumpstart their data storytelling journey in 2018! We are excited to kick-off our workshops at home, in the Caribbean this year. Can’t wait to share our new techniques in this action-packed 1-day workshop.
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Don’t Miss Other Opps to learn from our BI Brainz team!
1. Feb 19-21 | California, USA – #BIAconf
Session Title: How to Improve ROI & User Adoption for Your BI Implementation
Location: Hyatt Regency – Huntington Beach, California
Cost: $209 – $2,099
As the newest addition to our BI Brainz team, Raquel Seville has been involved in the BI space for over 10 years. In this insightful session, she will tackle a topic that she battled with as a customer for many years, “How can you get more ROI and user adoption from BI projects?” Laced with real-world techniques and strategies, we highly recommend you bring your notebook, pens, and smartphones. These slides are snapshot ready!
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2. Mar 13-15 | Melbourne, AUS – #MasteringSAP
Session Title: There is No Silver Bullet: 10 Key Lessons on ROI and User Adoption for Your BI Implementations
Location: Crown Promenade Centre – Melbourne, AUS
Cost: A$2,850 – A$3,500
As the newest addition to our BI Brainz team, Raquel Seville has been involved in the BI space for over 10 years. Join her as she discusses the techniques required to extract true ROI from your BI implementations, by increasing user adoption. As a former BI manager at a major telecom company for the last 10 years, learn from her real-world lessons. As the author of the SAP UI handbook, Raquel focuses on user experience, user adoption and gaining true value from your implementations!
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3. Mar 21-22 | London, UK – #BigDataWorld
Session Title: TBD (will be focused on visual storytelling)
Location: Excel, London
Cost: Free
So excited to add this event to my list of conferences. Big Data and IOT is the future! My session will focus on visual storytelling with an AI twist. Gain insight into the future of data stories powered by artificial intelligence and how your organization can leverage this technological tsunami. Many researchers are stating that AI is as big as the internet in terms of technology. You don’t want to miss this!
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4. Apr 13 | Menlo Park, CA – #WiA2018
Keynote Title: TBD
Location: Facebook HQ – Menlo Park, CA
Cost: N/A
Excited to be invited to keynote at this first-ever event of its kind for Facebook, where I will discuss the evolution of the BI Brainz Group in-depth.
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5. Apr 22-27 | San Diego, USA – #EDW18
Panel Title: Why Enterprise Organizations Use AI as a Strategic Capability and Competitive Advantage
Location: San Diego, California
Cost: $1,045 – $2,965
As a long time fan of Dataversity, I’m excited to be a part of this panel on April 24, discussing why AI is so important to enterprises and how it can be leveraged as a competitive advantage. I’ll be on the stage with a brilliant cast of AI startup founders and advisors, Steve Ardire, Will Wright and Sindu Joseph! Check them out and see you there!
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Killer session Mico! #highlyrecommended
5. June 27-29 | Prague, CZ – #BIHANA2018
Session Title: Stabilising and Improving an SAP BI 4.2 Enterprise Shared Service Environment
Location: Prague Congress Centre – Prague, Czech Republic
Cost: €999 – €2,599 (Save €550 before May 4, 2018)
Join our BI Brainz European team as they shine a light on two hot topics: 1) how SAP BI 4.2 customers can troubleshoot and enhance their shared service environment, 2) Better ways to embrace your visual quick wins in 2018! You’ll also get to hear from one of our customers on how they are leveraging the HANA strategy we help them to put in place over a year ago to enable real-time self-service analytics! Need help? Be sure to visit our booth to chat with our SAP HANA and BI experts and take a look at some of our customer demos!
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6. June 27-28 | Massachusetts, USA – #RealBI
Workshop Title: Driving Actionable and Compelling Stories That Users Love
Location: MIT Tang Center – Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cost: $800 (early bird)
My session on data storytelling is confirmed! My session last year on my ‘WHW method’ was rated as #1. I’m ecstatic to be back again alongside such amazing speakers from the MIT staff, speakers from AirBNB, and Aldo. In my session, I will provide proven techniques and tools that you can use to become a rock star data storyteller. This event is one of the most well-rounded ones I’ve attended and I actually attend 80% of the sessions myself. Look forward to seeing you there!
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Most of us have too many KPIs according to @micoyuk – 10+ KPIs create distraction. 3-5 KPIs create focus. #REALBI2017
— Kathy Sucich (@ksucich) July 11, 2017
Still not sure what to Expect?
Check out these awesome tweets from previous workshop attendees!
Dancing in BIDF @micoyuk rocks pic.twitter.com/fXQYRUSdpZ
— adir (@adiroren) November 8, 2017
Where the amazing @micoyuk got us. Amazing stuff entirely hands on. #PASSsummit pic.twitter.com/ernHZwGSYl
— Malathi Mahadevan (@sqlmal) October 31, 2017
To Conclude 🙂
So there you have it! You can’t afford to miss BI Brainz in 2018. We can’t wait to share what we’ve learned to help you avoid the many pitfalls we’ve seen over the years.
My personal goal in 2018 is to help create and drive a new breed of BI practitioners who start their BI projects by telling stories. Who engage their users and communicate their data in a new way. No more boring requirement gathering documents. We need visual storytellers to make these new AI/BI projects successful. I hope you join me on this journey!
And don’t forget, if you can’t attend one of my live workshops, you can join me online for my BI Data Storytelling Mastery course!
I’d like to hear from you. Which events are you attending in 2018 and why?
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