Tell Your Story through Data Visualization
Thursday, April 23 | 10:35am - 11:50am
Session Description: Parks and Recreation collects massive amounts of data. Data visualization uses charts and graphs to visualize large amounts of data to see trends, outliers and patterns which is easier than pouring over spreadsheets or reports. Telling a great story is going beyond the data visualization of a report or dashboard and provide meaningful insights that will enable you to identify problems, convert those insights into action and drive better decision making within your organization.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will learn what Business Intelligence and Data Analytics is and why it’s important in Parks & Recreation.
- Participants will see examples of dashboards and other data visualization tools of how data is utilized to tell your story, like Workforce Analytics that shows your staff’s gender, ethnicity, age, etc.
- Participants will learn from 2 Parks and Recreation professionals on how they use dashboards in their everyday operations.
Speakers: Amy Johnson, Ralph Thomas, Jan Bretana
About the Speakers: Amy has been the Business Intelligence Analyst at Metro Parks Tacoma for the past 4 years and has been with Metro Parks Tacoma for just over 11 years. After leaving a past career in collegiate recreation for fundraising, Amy has found her way back to her two loves – data and recreation.
Ralph has been a Fulltime Recreation Professional for the past 20 years with Mt. Vernon Parks & Recreation, City of Des Moines Parks & Recreation and for the past 5 years with Metro Parks Tacoma. Ralph enjoys recreating on his own and with family. He enjoys fishing in the Saltwater and hiking through Eastern Montana. When he’s not at work or recreating, he’s coaching Jr. High AAU basketball.
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