From the course: Data-Driven Decision-Making for the Real World

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How to leverage your data analysis for informed business decisions

How to leverage your data analysis for informed business decisions

From the course: Data-Driven Decision-Making for the Real World

How to leverage your data analysis for informed business decisions

- [Instructor] Data is just numbers, even ones and zeros if you're technical. But come on, 121 pages of number after number just doesn't excite many people, let alone light a fire to get them passionate enough to change the world right now. The thing that can do just this is some powerful visuals. Here's where you have to get visual in not just the data but what the data tells you. And more importantly, what you want others to do. Action. That's the word here. What imagery or visual is going to make people take action? Like say we did some research and our data shows our network isn't very secure. If I give you a spreadsheet of all the IP addresses we checked, all the router and firewall configurations, the servers and their locations, our user counts and access points, see? You're falling asleep already. Now, if I simply said that our data shows we are at risk for a serious ransomware attack where we could be…

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