It sounds like a statement or just like poetry, but it’s more an invitation to build a whole different approach about data and to learn how to exploit it. This may sound obvious, but HR – the ones that deal with talent management – are not so used to be data-driven rather than instinct-driven. According to them, talent is an intangible asset, it deals with judgments, observations, feelings. All these elements that are not naturally easy to process when using the software.
In his book Information is beautiful, David McCandless explains that if one single information is not truthful when a set of information is combined together, this can lead a whole reality that would have totally escaped to those who, for instance, seek talents within companies. Combining information to « detect the invisible » can look like a shaman science, but it’s simply called a data visualization or a DataViz. And when it’s greatly achieved, DataViz flirts with art.
Designing DataViz requires rigor and method to lead to useful and relevant insights. How to gather, handle, structure, examine and discover information to deliver a DataViz? What kind of tools must be used to do so? Does it require specific skills? Is it the responsibility of dedicated functions? Here are some questions that I’ve asked David. Watch the interview, read his book, and let the magic begins 😉
