What key skills or attributes do you consider have contributed to your success in this role?
If I had to boil my success into one word, it would be practise. When I started, I couldn’t get enough of building visualisations and learning about data visualisation. And I’m still on that learning path today. You will not improve if you don’t practise, and that practise needs to be deliberate and focused.
What level of data maturity do you see across the data industry and what tends to hold this back?
Data maturity is improving, but not at the pace “promised” years ago. The data industry is still too focused on building reports and not focused enough of analysis and finding insights. Perhaps this is a skills gap, but companies need to learn that getting something from their data is more important than producing dashboards and reports. We also need to move away from a one tool will do it all mentality; there are different tools that are great at different things. Be willing to adopt more tools so that you can improve efficiencies.