Speaker

Annie Symington

Annie Symington

Citizen Data Scientist and Data Visualization Guru, Dataviz Consulting

An information evangelist passionate in the art of story-telling and bringing data alive with simple, unique and customer friendly visualization techniques; a modern-day business story teller. After finishing my degree in Social Science, I joined some friends for a working holiday in London which turned into 4 years abroad. With a natural aptitude for numbers, I worked in Finance in the music industry. On my return, I continued my career in Finance, but found myself getting closer and closer to the heart of the business .... the customer. The last decade saw me leaving Finance and getting my hands dirty in the data world and I successfully implemented two big data solutions and building two analytics teams from scratch. But analytics is only exciting for analysts which encouraged my passion for data visualization and story boarding.

Annie Symington will be speaking on the following topic:

Agenda day 1
10:00
The rise of data visualization and the importance of story telling

For years we have embarked on this data journey with the increased importance on getting our data clean and consumable. And now we need to move towards improving the way we bring the data to life and turn it into actionable insights.
Annie will take you through some tips and tricks on applications, resources and techniques that have assisted me along the way in the data visualisation journey.

  • Determine whether to automate or not to automate (The pros and cons of self-service)
  • Discover how you can benefit from adding the 'so what' factor)
  • Learn how to set data visualisation standards