Kerry Kolosko
Head of Data Visualisation and UI/UX
Adelaide, Australia
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Kerry is a Data Visualisation Consultant and Business Intelligence Manager hailing from Adelaide, South Australia.
With a background in psychology and the social sciences and over fifteen years reporting experience across a range of industries, Kerry brings a considered and creative edge to BI and data visualization design.
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A data story from start to finish
Data, analysis, visualisation and narrative. The investigation and design from start to finish.
What my customers taught me about DataViz : Lessons from the Field
Learning from Real-World Experience
Why you need a Style Guide
Do your organization's Power BI reports feel inconsistent, clunky and disjointed? Are you spending too much time tweaking visuals, adjusting formats, and struggling to achieve a tidy and cohesive look? Do you often second-guess your visualization choices?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you might be in need of a Style Guide.
This session will discuss the benefits of implementing a data visualization style guide for organizations that utilize Power BI.
The speaker will draw on experience of implementing guides for multiple organisations, and discuss how findings from user research and desktop reviews can be used to tailor guides to meet each organisation's specific needs, enabling an uplift in data visualisation capability.
Attendees will learn what goes into a style guide, what templating features are available, and take away practical tips to create their own.
Level up with Workout Wednesday!
Workout Wednesday* is a weekly challenge to re-create a data-driven visualization. The challenges are designed to kick-start personal development in Power BI.
Join the Workout Wednesday team to work through a special SQL Bits-themed challenge. All you need to participate is your machine**, an hour of battery power, and your enthusiasm for building visuals in Power BI.
You'll get a chance to work through the challenge with other participants and will get coaching from the Workout Wednesday team! This will be an opportunity to both learn and share with other participants.
*https://www.workout-wednesday.com/power-bi-challenges/
**note, this session is hands-on, using Power BI desktop. Please ensure that you have Power BI desktop installed prior to the session.
Mastering Power BI Design with User-Centric Frameworks
Key to Power BI report success and user adoption is a deep understanding of the consumer. This session will explore essential tools and strategies that enable you to gain valuable insights into your audience's information and experience needs. From this, the presenter will delve into practical techniques for shaping and crafting a compelling data story or data application for your audience.
Advanced Visualisation with Power BI
Participants will explore principles and techniques of advanced data visualisation, gain an understanding of the Grammar of Graphics, and hands-on experience with Vega-Lite visual analysis grammar. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to create a variety of data visualisations, from basic to complex, with the Deneb custom visual to enhance their data storytelling capabilities.
Building a Data Strategy : The basics
A 101 on building a data strategy for organisation. The session will cover best practices for aligning data strategy with organisational goals and fostering a data-driven culture within teams.
Art with Data
How Fabric Notebooks and Power BI can be used together to analyse pieces of art, and then ultimately, create art.
The speaker will guide you through a process of inquiry, data interrogation, and image analysis within notebooks to extract deeper insights.
The session will demonstrate the integration of these insights into Power BI, where key findings are highlighted and advanced custom visuals, like Deneb, are used to enhance data exploration. Finally, the speaker will show how to transform the resultant data story into unique pieces of artwork, blending data science and artistic creativity.
Options for creative data visualizations in Power BI *
Creativity is not only intelligence having fun, but necessary for innovation. It requires "thinking outside the box", with few constraints or design fixations.
Data visualisation practitioners are often required to build novel but useful solutions to engage audiences or meet unusual and complex requirements. This means thinking creatively - skirting standard visuals or forgoing 'best practice'.
This presentation will touch on tooling options for creative visualisations in Power BI, such as Charticulator, Deneb and others. Design challenges and considerations will be discussed and followed by examples and walkthroughs.
From Vega-Lite to Vega in Power BI
This session will give an overview of both visualisation grammars, when you may use one over the other and will highlight and demonstrate key differences in building data visuals.
Deneb for Aesthetics
Deneb is a flexible custom visual for Power BI that can be utilised for creative bespoke visualisations, information rich metrics, exploratory data analysis, or improved data visualisation aesthetics. This session will focus on aesthetics in dashboard and data visualisation design with the help of Deneb.
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Kerry Kolosko
Head of Data Visualisation and UI/UX
Adelaide, Australia
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