Training Topics
- 3.7.A Skill in selecting and/or using data visualization techniques, for example flow charts, graphs, plots, word clouds, and heat maps.
- 3.7.B Skill in identifying stakeholders’ needs, goals, requirements, questions, and objectives to develop a framework and/or plan for data analysis.
- 3.7.C Skill in analyzing and interpreting results of data analyses to identify patterns, trends, and relationships among variables.
- 3.7.D Skill in gathering and organizing data from internal and/or external sources in logical and/or practical ways to support retrieval and manipulation.
Goal: improve data literacy
Design and develop dashboards
TD professionals require a basic understanding of analytics and the ability to communicate the results of a project to stakeholders.
Steps to Gather and Organize Data
- Define the question
- Set clear measurement priorities,
- Collect the data.
- Analyze the data.
- Interpret the results.
TD professionals typically measure talent development using metrics.
- Descriptive analytics. Use it to explain what happened.
- Diagnostic analytics. Use it to explain why something happened
- Predictive analytics. Use both descriptive and diagnostic data to predict what will happen in the future.
- Prescriptive analytics. Use it to show how to make something happen.
