The Present Beyond Measure Show: Data Storytelling, Presentation & Visualization

Evan LaPointe is an industry-recognized entrepreneur, writer and speaker, and dear colleague, and is a rare mix of businessman and passionate geek. He is the inventor of Satellite, now known as Adobe DTM, a dynamic tag management system that is used on thousands of websites worldwide to deploy the Adobe Analytics suite.

And in this episode, Evan brings his deep experience as an analyst intermingled with rare neuroscience angle that will help you build trust and innovate in presenting your insights right away!

In This Episode, You’ll Learn...

• How Evan learned to persuade and inspire using psychology-based presentation practices
• How many and what kind of recommendations to present to build stakeholder trust
• How to identify your presentation blind spots and collaborate with others to repair them
• How studying the structure of music theory can clue you into effective data storytelling*T ips for presenting aggregate numbers and calculations that set the stage for deeper dives

Resources & Links Mentioned

• Made to Stick by Chip Heath & Dan Heath
• Carl Jung Cognitive Function Tests
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
• Presentation templates on Envato’s Graphic River
  • “Dunkirk”

How to Keep Up with Evan:

• Evan’s YouTube Channel
• LinkedIn
• Twitter

To view the show notes & resources for this episode, visit LeaPica.com/031

Marco Szeidenleder is Here to Help You Get to Grips with Your Data Dashboard!

• Why being able to present data is central to utilizing its power.
• How Marco and his team help their clients realize their data’s potential.
• An example of how Pandata irons out data problems and misdirected leads through their reports.
• How do you make sure your dashboards actually get used?
• Getting to the essence of a data dashboard; less static than a presentation.
• What is a feature every visualization tool should have, but only few provide?
• Ingredients for an impactful and successful dashboard: self-explanatory, and prioritized.
• Balancing dashboard interactivity with appropriate levels of functionality and consumability.
• The foremost KPIs that Marco interacts with and maps out for his clients.
• Common mistakes that Marco has noticed in regards to dashboards.
• How do you handle or prevent excessive change requests before hand-over of a dashboard?
• A few of Marco’s favorite current data tools!
• Thoughts on using relatable concepts to communicate the message of the data.

>> VIEW SHOW NOTES + RESOURCES

• My new book waiting list
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• Pandata
• Get an ObservePoint Demo
• Looker
• Metabase
• Tableau
• Bitquery
• Digital Analytics Meetup
• Flatten the Curve Pandata
• Take my free 30-second online assessment to identify and overcome the #1 silent killer of your data presentations

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Today we're talking about a common New Year's Resolution: increased productivity. Between taming my insane calendar, finishing my toddler’s playroom and writing my first eBook, I have several daunting goals to choose from this year.

I’ve always been a bit of a productivity junkie (let’s be honest, I’m just technically lazy.) Discovering my first keyboard shortcuts was a transformative moment indeed, and since then I've crusaded to get my valuable time back by creating a productive work environment.

Here are my 5 best tips for staying productive when you’re burning the midnight oil on your next presentation!

In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

• The real cost of constant workplace interruptions on our daily productivity
• How to stem the tide of external noise like your phone, email and social media
• The best tools for keeping your productivity plan on track
• The importance of taking breaks and working movement into your workday
• Strategies for communicating the value of your time and setting expectations

To view the show notes and resources for this episode, visit LeaPica.com/014.

This episode’s guest is on a mission to turn your boring product demonstration into a unique benefits-driven selling experience for technology vendors.

Oscar Santolalla of the Time to Shine Podcast is an engineer turned public speaking trainer who happens to excel at teaching service providers how to deliver killer product demos.

This is a supremely important service for the digital analytics and marketing industry, considering that technology services is the lifeblood of our practice.

And in this episode, Oscar brings his unique framework for planning, creation and preparation for a product demo that will turn prospects into raving fans.

Oscar is launching an Indiegogo campaign to fund a brand new book on this topic, called “Create and Deliver a Killer Product Demo”. Please support this great project, which closes on June 10th!

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• The most effective structure of a killer product demonstration
• The right kind of pre-work before you begin to create your demo
• The importance of analyzing your audience’s needs and desires
• How many times you need to rehearse your demo (it’s more than you think!)
• How to avoid the most common pitfalls during product demos
• How to help fund his new book, “Create and Deliver Killer Product Demos” on Indiegogo by June 10th!

To view the show notes & resources for this episode, visit LeaPica.com/020.

How to Follow Oscar:

• Time to Shine Podcast
• Twitter
• LinkedIn

This episode's guest is best known for making data storytelling more than a flashy catch phrase in organizations across the country.

Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic has always had a penchant for turning data into pictures and into stories. She’s honed her data visualization skills over the past decade through analytical roles in banking, private equity, and most recently at Google, where she developed and taught a course on communicating effectively with data.

I first discovered her as a teacher during the TechChange Data Visualization Course with Ann K. Emery, and was instantly hooked on her balanced, pragmatic, yet not dogmatic approach to practical data storytelling.

Today she helps organizations become more effective recently published Amazon.com category bestseller through her blog, Storytelling with Data, and her acclaimed workshops. She recently published a data visualization book, an Amazon category best-seller, Storytelling with Data.

And in this episode, Cole dishes on insights into data visualization and practical applications on how to communicate effectively with data.

To view the show notes & resources for this episode, visit LeaPica.com/023.

How to Follow Cole:

• Storytelling with Data Blog
• Twitter
• LinkedIn