Fireside Chat #4 – with Donald Farmer

In Data Literacy, Fireside Chat, Guest, Video by dlgeek

Donald Farmer is an incredibly knowledgeable and inspiring leader in the field of data and analytics and has been for many years. He sat down with Angelika and Boris to speak about monkeys, bananas, analytics, corporate culture and the most important bit: the human element. Donald shared some interesting anecdotes about what value he sees in decision support systems, which obstacles he saw when it came to implementing a data-driven culture, how to overcome these and ultimately how to inspire humans to embrace the idea of data-driven decision making.

What is your experience with implementing a data-driven culture? Which obstacles did you face and how did you circumnavigate them? Share and discuss with us in the comments.