Make friends with data

Big data, open data, meta-data, cloud data. Data journalism, data based decisions, data driven marketing, data analysis, data visualisation, interactive data, data based development, data trends, data storage, data transparency, data ownership, public data, private data, data security….

We’re all swimming in the information age and data is a label increasingly used to describe the water, the pool, the filter, the air and our reason for getting wet in the first place.

It’s confusing. It’s big. And if we get our heads around it’s a huge opportunity.

Learn from NZ’s leaders at Open Data Day.

This will be a rare 1 day opportunity to learn how you can make the most of data from the leading practitioners in New Zealand.

Co-hosted by Lillian Grace and the team from Figure.NZ

July 7th. Biz Dojo Wellington.

Open Data Day will be an opportunity to learn from NZ’s data experts.

Including Lillian Grace, CEO of Figure.NZ, Liz MacPherson, CEO of Statistics New Zealand, James Mansell the founder of NZ Data Alliance and Peter Ellis, manager of sector trends at MBIE.

Learn how to ‘navigate by numbers’ and put open data to use for you.

Expect to get practical in hands on workshops to to help build strategy, policy, research and make better business decisions.

Data is for everyone. Which means, it’s for you.

Data has the potential to change how you view the world and improve how you work.

From journalists and bloggers interested in using public data better for research to marketers looking to better understand trends and customer tosmall business owners and entrepreneurs who can use publicly available data to make better decisions about their businesses—the application of data goes far beyond what you might expect.

If you’re working on policy, public interest work, funding for non-for profits or economics—then understanding how you can better use data can help you prioritise and add valuable insight for decision making and direction setting.

If you work to advise or manage clients in the digital sector, then knowing what open data has made possible might well change how you do business as well.

Places are strictly limited.

If data is on your radar, and you know you need to be across it, and do *something* with it—then Open Data Day is for you.

Places to Open Data Day are strictly limited to just 70 places and will sell out.

Join us at BizDojo in Wellington on Thursday July 7th.
Secure your place here.

ENDS

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