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Data visualization technologies are supposed to make information easier to understand, faster to comprehend and provide an opportunity for all users (including non-technical ones) to see trends, outliers and anomalies. Given this drive for clarity of vision, it would have been disappointing to see a firm in this space try to label its annual technical convention as anything less than a virtual attempt to replicate what a normal industry gathering normally looks like.

In a virtual iteration of its annual conference, the Seattle-based data visualization company enlisted public-sector employees to discuss the growing need for clear, transparent data in government.

As organizations move towards the era of data-driven models and culture, the role of today’s data leaders is to essentially make data leaders of us all, says an expert panel comprising executives from JLL, Zuellig Pharma and Tata Steel.

Small businesses continue to feel the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, but Experian and Tableau are providing a variety of resources to help them push through the challenges and roadblocks presented this year. With programs like the Tableau COVID-19 Data Hub and the Experian COVID-19 U.S. Business Risk Index, SMB owners can better navigate the best way to make it through these unprecedented times. To learn more about the selection of resources Experian and Tableau are offering, SBJ correspondent chatted with Caroline Yeh, the Senior Industry Marketing Manager Financial Services at Tableau, and Brian Bond, the Senior Vice President of Product, Marketing and Strategy for Experian Business Information Services. Check out what they had to say below.

When Seattle Public Schools transitioned to remote learning in the spring due to COVID-19, we knew there would be challenges. Chief among those challenges is this: Many households across the district — disproportionately Black, immigrant and households of color — lack reliable internet access or a device for students to learn from home.

Indonesia’s Bank Mandiri has built a big data platform to track financial transactions, monitor employee health and speed up its debt restructuring processes for customers in a bid to become more resilient amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Financial institutions are one of the biggest adopters of big data analytics, but serving up fancy dashboards populated with charts and graphs is not enough, at least at Citi.

Maureen Stone is an authority on color and an expert on data visualization. She’s the author of A Field Guide to Digital Color, and she’s the director of research at Tableau, where she also serves as unofficial color honcho for the popular data-visualization tool.

Applications run on data, obviously. But how much time do we think about the way applications get the data fed into them and how well that process is being performed.

Business Intelligence users rate Salesforce Einstein Analytics, Tableau, Looker and DOMO the most effective at saving their time getting work done.