Alumni Discussion Club Event with Rihards Garancs: Data Analysis & Data Storytelling

In the data driven era, companies that master data, extract insights, and convey them in a compelling way, can gain competitive advantage. To achieve this, deep understanding of Data Analytics and Data Storytelling are essential. In this short keynote, core elements of both skills will be covered that can help attaining data-driven mastery.

• How to critically read data visualisations? How biases & critical thinking techniques are used to manipulate stories with data?
• How to do a data storytelling effectively? What drives actionable insights, and how to craft story from big data?
• How can you apply “data scientist” mindset in business problems to ensure smarter decision making and contingency planning?

Keynote will provide with knowledge, structure, frameworks, and strategies to convey powerful data driven stories and effectively translate data for business insights.

Rihards Garancs is the Director of Artificial Intelligence & Data Analysis Course at SSE Riga (also a graduate of the Class of 2012). His area of expertise includes database development, data visualization, data and financial reporting automation, efficiency improvement. Rihards runs a consulting company that develops Business Intelligence solutions. His focus is to help companies advance in business analytics using the latest digital tools. Rihards has worked for the clients in the Food & Beverage, Telecommunications & Digital, Media and Manufacturing industry. He complements his knowledge by attaining a double degree MBA in HEC Paris and National University of Singapore and Data Science certification in Paris.