I like to talk! About data, visualisation and some of the work I do! Here is a collection of interviews, podcasts and articles with or about me and my work.
Me talking about things
Becoming Data-Driven through UX
At Tableau Conference 2023 I gave a presentation about UX in analytics and reporting and the fact that many companies just throw reports and dashboards at users without actually establishing the need for either of them. I gave examples and recommendations how to apply UX techniques into all parts of the development lifecycle of analytics assets.
You can find the summary blogpost here as well as a recording of the session.
My NZ Lego Map
Shortly after I finished my NZ LEGO Map, Adam Simmons from the Project Geospatial got in touch to ask if I would talk about the project on his podcast. So I did. On the left you find 40min of me talking through the creation of the map – either with video on Youtube or without video on Spotify.
Building Communities
As part of Cristian Gomez‘ DataSquadAcademy podcast, he asked me to talk about my experiences building communities, publicly such as the Auckland Tableau User Group or the DataVis Auckland Meetup and within organisations. I am/was involved with all of those several times so I tried to summarise the benefits for everybody involved (organisers, attendees and organisations) as well as some of the challenges and tips when trying to establish a new community.
Get in touch if you have any questions or would like to discuss any of the aspects we talked about.
Triangles in Data Visualisation
A guest lecture I gave at the University of Auckland in 2018. Covering some general thoughts about Business Analysis and sitting at the intersection of Business Technology and Design, I end up covering some basic data vis principles and showcase some real life examples. I also summarised the talk in case people don’t have an hour to spend on youtube.
Everyone’s a Hacker
Some time back I created the first draft of this talk and had the opportunity to present it at the Tableau Fringe Festival 2017 in APAC.
I posted a summary of it a while back on this blog
Others talking about me
The NZ Herald about my LEGO Map
Soon after I finished my NZ LEGO Map and posted about it I was contacted by somebody at the Herald who asked if they could run a story on it.
A reporter called me to ask a bunch of questions and you can find the result in this article.
