Nick Desbarats
Instructor and Best-selling Author, Data Visualization and Dashboard Design @Practical Reporting Inc
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Instructor and Best-selling Author, Data Visualization and Dashboard Design @Practical Reporting Inc
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As an independent instructor and best-selling author, I\'ve taught data visualization and information dashboard design to thousands of professionals in over 15 countries at organizations such as NASA, Bloomberg, Visa, The United Nations, Shopify, The Internal Revenue Service, and The Central Bank of Tanzania.My book,\"Practical Charts\"(2023), is an Amazon #1 New Release and I regularly contribute articles to The Journal of the Data Visualization Society (Nightingale) that are among that publication’s most widely read and shared. I regularly deliver main-stage talks at conferences such as Tableau Conference, TDWI World Conference, SAS Explorers, Data Innovation Summit, and others, and have lectured at top universities such as Yale, The University of Toronto, and The Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand).I was the first and only educator to be authorized by Stephen Few to deliver his foundational data visualization and dashboard design workshops, which I taught from 2014 until launching my own workshops in 2019. Prior to that, I held senior executive positions at several software companies and was a cofounder of BitFlash Inc, which raised over $20M in venture financing and was sold to OpenText Corporation. In 2012, I was granted a United States patent in the decision-support field.For more information about upcoming public workshops or to schedule a private workshop, please visit
ABOUT NICK DESBARATS
As an independent instructor and best-selling author, I\'ve taught data visualization and information dashboard design to thousands of professionals in over a dozen countries at organizations such as NASA, Bloomberg, Visa, The United Nations, Shopify, The Internal Revenue Service, and The Central Bank of Tanzania.My book,\"Practical Charts\"(2023), is an Amazon #1 New Release and I regularly contribute articles to The Journal of the Data Visualization Society (Nightingale) that are among that publication’s most widely read and shared. I also regularly deliver main-stage talks at conferences such as Tableau Conference, TDWI World Conference, SmashingConf, Outlier, Data Innovation Summit, and others, and have lectured at Yale University, The University of Toronto, and The Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand).I was the first and only educator to be authorized by Stephen Few to deliver his foundational data visualization and dashboard design workshops, which I taught from 2014 until launching my own workshops in 2019. Prior to that, I held senior executive positions at several software companies and was a cofounder of BitFlash Inc, which raised over $20M in venture financing and was sold to OpenText Corporation. In 2012, I was granted a United States patent in the decision-support field.For more information about upcoming public workshops or to schedule a private workshop, visit
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