Engage Your Community
Invite your people to learn more about data visualization
Companies around the world are implementing corporate Data Literacy programs in their organizations. How can you harness the power of data in yours?
DataYoga partners with corporate universities of the world’s largest companies to run online educational marathons for thousands of employees. The goal is to showcase the power of data visualization and engage employees in working with data.
Where to start
The most important part is to create a dialogue between IT-experts and business users and beginners. Data skills Education can be done with hands-on trainings, but reaching a large number of employees would be more effective with online marathons.
Approaching a new skill set for large number of employees can bring lots of new opportunities.
Approaching a new skill set for large number of employees can bring lots of new opportunities.
DataYoga Marathons
New Language
To understand the basics of emerging skill of working with data and visual literacy
Confidence
To overcome one’s fear of unknown tools and instruments and gain confidence
Community
Get to know other people and share knowledge and experiences with each other
Each marathon includes carefully chosen corporate success stories, theory on data visualization, practice as well as additional materials.
use cases
success stories and motivation for employees
theory
basic topics of dataviz and/or the BI-tool
practice
skills training, sandboxing, and datasets
materials
useful resources, posters, diagrams, and books
What is data literacy and what skills it includes. More on Data Literacy Project
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Self-service analytics evolution: how a company’s data management process is set up
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How to see data: from tables to charts and graphs. Visual attributes & visual rules
Important questions to ask about data sources before you start. Where to find the data and how to connect to the datasources
A catalog of different types of charts. What makes up every diagram, how to ask questions, and how to tailor a visual representation to your tasks
What is a dashboard. Types and formats of dashboards. Interactivity, annotations and storytelling
The aesthetics of visualizations. How color, font, and composition affect data perception
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Stories versus data analysis, a checklist of good storytelling and the art of data
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What is data literacy and what skills it includes. More on Data Literacy Project
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Self-service analytics evolution: how a company’s data management process is set up
3
How to see data: from tables to charts and graphs. Visual attributes & visual rules
4
Important questions to ask about data sources before you start. Where to find the data and how to connect to the datasources
5
A catalog of different types of charts. What makes up every diagram, how to ask questions, and how to tailor a visual representation to your tasks
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What is a dashboard. Types and formats of dashboards. Interactivity, annotations and storytelling
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The aesthetics of visualizations. How color, font, and composition affect data perception
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Stories versus data analysis, a checklist of good storytelling and the art of data
How do we do it
Project preparation
Setting goals, deadlines and topics of the future Marathon, roles and responsibilities
Identifying needs
Working together to develop a program for your target audience based on DataYoga’s own modules, games, books, artifacts, and your own content
Style and Design
Developing an online information page with your brand design style and visual identity
Interviews and case collection
A series of meetings with enthusiasts and specialists within the company who are already using the technology to solve their problems, working through their experiences and forming a success story
Landing Design
Designing success stories and educational materials, supporting them with sketches and illustrations. Also adding practical exercises, tests and additional artifacts for in deep learning
Developing a communication strategy
Forming a list of tools to launch and support the internal community, accompanying participants and answering questions, sharing opinions, conducting surveys and#quizzes
Announcement and mailing campaign
Announcements, invitations and mailing#texts for promotion. Engaging executives to motivate employees, packaging video and text messages
Launching the community
Registering online platforms for communicating with each other and going through the Marathon materials, setting up access, help in moderating the information flow
Running a marathon
Sending out educational longreads, answering questions and Zoom sessions with experts, motivation for completing the Marathon, warming up old-fashioned anecdotes, final prizes and giveaways
Contact us
Feel free to drop a message or ask anything. We like to chat!
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