Ben Spooner on Dashboard Building Process: Inception to Autonomous Decision Making
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Ben Spooner has several years of experience as an Army Officer\\xa0at a battle post in Iraq, both in Intelligence as well as Executive capacities. I sat down with him to discuss his thoughts on activating a data driven work culture using data visualization and dashboards as primary weapons.\\xa0
Here\'s what we discussed:
- A complete dashboard lifecycle - from inception to decision-making
- How to build dashboards that drive decision making
- Up close and personal look at the data scientist who did data research and exploration at the front line trenches of\\xa0 insurgency in a war zone
- When is raw data the best form of reporting (instead of a\\xa0fancy-schmancy dashboard)
- Two critical factors that fuels dashboard building process\\u2026They are C-words (hint: Curiosity and Collaboration)
- Data Driven culture has two key pursuits: truth and discovery. How to make a dashboard that builds this type of a data driven culture...
- How to deal with stakeholders who don\\u2019t appreciate the exploratory process of dashboard building\\u2026 and how to set their expectations and empower them.
- Bonus: Self-correcting semi-autonomous system and its application to insurance claims processing...
Reach out to Ben\'s through LinkedIn or Email to learn more about his exciting data science projects.
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