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Speaker: Dr. Kristen Sosulski

Title: The business case for data visualization: Real people + Real data

Abstract: How & why do professionals incorporate data visualization into their practice? To answer these questions, Kristen Sosulski engaged professionals in business analytics, human resources, marketing, research, education, politics, gaming, entrepreneurship, & project management to share their practice. Based on her latest book, Data
Visualization Made Simple: Insights into Becoming Visual, Kristen will present the business case for data visualization. She will illustrate how people & organizations use data visualization to aid in their decision making, data exploration, data modeling, presentation, & reporting. Specifically, her hope is to motivate the audience to make the visualization of data part of their organizations practice.

Bio: Dr. Kristen Sosulski is an Associate Professor at NYUs Stern School of Business where she teaches MBA students & executives data visualization, programming & business analytics. She is the Director of the Learning Science Lab for NYU Stern where she develops immersive online learning environments for business school education.

As a leading expert on data visualization, Kristen regularly consults, delivers seminars, & leads workshops on data visualization techniques & best practices. You can find her speaking on the subject at events like Social Media Week NYC, plot.lys PlotCon conference, & Tableaus events & to organizations like the National Association of Public Opinion & the National Economic Research Association.

Kristens passion for technology & learning sciences converges in all facets of her career, inside & outside of the classroom. Follow her on Twitter at @sosulski & learn more at http://kristensosulski.com.

Thanks to Stack Overflow for providing space & to Kaiser Fung & Principal Analytics Prep for sponsoring the event.
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