Does your company have a low business intelligence (BI) and analytics maturity? According to an article published by Gartner earlier this month, there is an 87% chance that it does. The article entitled, “Organizations Have Low BI and Analytics Maturity”; Gartner investigates why so many companies have a limited BI maturity while including four different approaches to improve it.

Tableau’s 11^th Annual Conference concluded another successful conference at the end of October in New Orleans. Attendees got to attend data inspired break-out sessions, Tableau training, as well as networking events. One of the main events was the Iron Viz Championship – a competition between three finalists armed with a dataset and tasked with making the best visualization. Did I mention it was all in front of a live audience? I got to talk to 2018’s Iron Viz Champion, Timothy Vermeiren and asked him more about the championship and why he thinks data visualization is so important.

Not everyone needs to be a data scientist, but every company should utilize data to understand their business better. I spoke to Chad Rummel, Executive Director of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) about what data means to him and how his organization is using statistics to succeed.