The Present Beyond Measure Show: Data Storytelling, Presentation & Visualization

Scott Berinato is the author of “Good Charts,” where he helps people turn their plain or uninspiring charts into visualizations that clearly convey ideas powerfully. This book has quickly rose the ranks of my top-recommended data storytelling and visualization reads for anyone who presents data. He is a self-described “dataviz geek” and Senior Editor at the Harvard Business Review. He created the...

Allison Hartsoe is a celebrated speaker in the digital analytics industry, the first guest of my Women in Analytics Spotlight Series, and in this episode, she shares her unique talent for navigating the intersection between presenting data, storytelling, and connecting with her audiences. Allison is a highly successful serial entrepreneur who has founded three companies. She uses her understanding...

*Note: This is episode 033 - the introduction calls this episode 034 - you did not miss an episode Simo Ahava is a recognized expert with a cult-like following on customizing web analytics and tag management solutions to improve the entire “life cycle” of data collection, processing, and reporting. He is the Senior Data Advocate at Reaktor and also writes a popular blog on all things Google Analyt...

Benjamin Mangold is an author, blogger, speaker, and knowledge-sharing Google Analytics and Adwords expert. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Loves Data, a digital analytics and online advertising agency. He is also the author of Learning Google AdWords and Google Analytics, a practical step-by-step guide that teaches how to use Google AdWords and Google Analytics together or separately. Benjamin wa...

Evan LaPointe is an industry-recognized entrepreneur, writer and speaker, and dear colleague, and is a rare mix of businessman and passionate geek. He is the inventor of Satellite, now known as Adobe DTM, a dynamic tag management system that is used on thousands of websites worldwide to deploy the Adobe Analytics suite. And in this episode, Evan brings his deep experience as an analyst intermingle...

Wil Reynolds, quite simply, likes helping people and businesses grow. A former teacher with a knack for advising, he’s been helping Fortune 500 companies develop SEO strategies since 1999. Seeing the need for an agency that does good by its team, clients and community, Wil started Seer Interactive in 2002 as a one-man operation out of his living room. Today, Seer is home to over 100 employees acro...

Dustin Mathews is a mentor and coach to the world’s leading speakers, coaches, business owners and thought leaders such as Shark Tank star Kevin Harrington, NY Times Best Selling Author, Robert Allen, & Entrepreneur of the Year, Roxanne Emmerich. Dustin also gives a sneak peek at his awesome book titled “The NO B.S. Guide To Powerful Presentations: How To Sell ANYTHING With Webinars & Online Media...

As an admitted podcast junkie, one of my favorite kinds of episodes is created around the burning questions from the listener audience. To me, this is true customer-centricity! After delivering talks at close to thirty conferences and workshops, I’ve begun to notice the same three questions bubble up again and again. What are the top three questions I get asked at every event? They are: Where do I...

Sally Koering Zimney is a pro presentation coach who lives for learning about what moves people during a really impactful talk. She is a professional speaking coach and trainer, and has been speaking, performing – and coaching speakers – for nearly two decades. Sally is also the host of the This Moved Me Podcast where she interviews the leading experts of presentation prowess in a conversational i...

This episode’s esteemed guest is an economist by training, but over the last 5 years, he’s worked hard to communicate his research in better ways and to help others do the same. Jonathan Schwabish is the author of the popular data viz blog PolicyViz, his wonderful PolicyViz Podcast and the Rad Presenters, and his collaboration site HelpMeViz. Through each of these, his mission is to help others do...

This episode's guest is a global household name for bringing a touch of zen to your presentations. Garr Reynolds is the Elvis Presley of the presentation world, a wildly popular speaker, and the author of the award-winning and best-selling presentation book, Presentation Zen, which is considered by many to be the bible of stellar presenting. Garr’s contribution has been a pivotal force in my entir...

This episode's guest is best known for equipping analysts with Google Analytics firepower. Justin Cutroni is the revered Analytics Advocate at Google and works with educational teams to drive content strategy, product teams to provide real user feedback and sales and marketing teams to help evangelize Google’s analytics products. Justin helps analytics practitioners get the most out of their Googl...

This episode's guest is best known for making data storytelling more than a flashy catch phrase in organizations across the country. Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic has always had a penchant for turning data into pictures and into stories. She’s honed her data visualization skills over the past decade through analytical roles in banking, private equity, and most recently at Google, where she developed and...

Feras Alhlou and Eric Fettman are the brain trust behind the company E-Nor, and one of my favorite Google Analytics blogs. They focus on providing the knowledge to train savvy audiences, educating lay audiences and the effective use of data within large enterprises. Together they are releasing a brand new book on winning the Google Analytics game called Google Analytics Breakthrough: From Zero to...

This episode’s guests are on a mission to create data-savvy organizations by improving the dialogue between analyst and stakeholder. Zach and Chris Gemignani are the brain trust behind Juice Analytics, a company dedicated to helping organizations learn the language of their data and very good friends of mine. They are authors of one of my favorite data presentation books called Data Fluency, one o...

This episode’s guest is on a mission to turn your boring product demonstration into a unique benefits-driven selling experience for technology vendors. Oscar Santolalla of the Time to Shine Podcast is an engineer turned public speaking trainer who happens to excel at teaching service providers how to deliver killer product demos. This is a supremely important service for the digital analytics and...

Today’s guest works harder than anyone I know to create super useful analytics content and resources for our industry. Depth of Knowledge. The Periodic Table of Google Analytics. The Jumpstart Podcast. These are all resources created by Google Analytics / PPC guru / dear friend Jeff Sauer of Jeffalytics, one of the most authoritative and actionable measure blogs in the space. He also routinely del...

Rand Fishkin is one of the most revered, most followed, and most celebrated figures in the digital marketing world today. He’s made his astoundingly valuable and popular Whiteboard Friday video series a digital household name. He has a knack for turning industry conference audiences into drooling, raving fans (including myself), and routinely dominates every conference speaker leaderboard he grace...

Adam Greco is founding partner of Analytics Demystified and author of an immensely popular blog about Adobe SiteCatalyst. He routinely dominates industry conference presentation leaderboards, offering a dynamic mix of gripping storytelling and practical approaches for killing it at your analytics career. And during this session, he brings his absolute best-kept strategies for delivering internal a...

Today’s Primp Your Slide submission comes courtesy of Jennifer Yacenda of Starwood. She sent in a doozy of a viz; a dual axis bar / line chart showing the revenue monthly trend, growth and projected targets for four digital marketing channels. To view the companion video tutorial and resources for this episode, visit LeaPica.com/016. In This Episode, You’ll Learn: How to apply the P.I.C.A. methodo...

June Dershewitz is a long-standing pillar of the digital analytics community whose job description regularly includes breaking down complex analytical concepts for lay audiences. Listen in for her best internal meeting and conference presentation tips for standing out and driving huge value to your audiences. In This Episode, You’ll Learn: - June’s top tips for presenting complex analytical concep...

Today we're talking about a common New Year's Resolution: increased productivity. Between taming my insane calendar, finishing my toddler’s playroom and writing my first eBook, I have several daunting goals to choose from this year. I’ve always been a bit of a productivity junkie (let’s be honest, I’m just technically lazy.) Discovering my first keyboard shortcuts was a transformative moment indee...

Stéphane Hamel is a renowned industry expert on all things analytics and the creator of the Digital Analytics Maturity Model, a framework used by many organizations to assess their analytics readiness. In This Episode, You’ll Learn: - How organizations can select the right suite of analysis platforms for their specific needs - The pitfalls of connecting Google Analytics data to Tableau directly an...

For this very special 12th holiday episode, we take a trip down memory lane to look at 2015 in review. This episode also features a musical highlight reel from the past twelve shows featuring Tim Wilson, Jim Sterne, Eric Feinberg, Krista Seiden, The Digital Analytics Power Hour Gents and Nuts & Bolts Speed Training. I also offer a very special gift from the heart to my beloved listeners. It's my w...

Today we’re taking a quick field trip outside of the analytics community to bring you two very special guests that are on a mission to help people like us conquer the crunch. Camille Holden & Taylor Croonquist of Nuts & Bolts Speed Training take us behind the scenes of their wildly popular PowerPoint 3X Productivity Course! It’s an amazingly in-depth online course that hands you the keys to unlock...