Ben Spooner has several years of experience as an Army Officer at a battle post in Iraq, both in Intelligence as well as Executive capacities. I sat down with him to discuss his thoughts on activating a data driven work culture using data visualization and dashboards as primary weapons. 

Here's what we discussed:

• A complete dashboard lifecycle - from inception to decision-making
• How to build dashboards that drive decision making
• Up close and personal look at the data scientist who did data research and exploration at the front line trenches of  insurgency in a war zone
• When is raw data the best form of reporting (instead of a fancy-schmancy dashboard)
• Two critical factors that fuels dashboard building process…They are C-words (hint: Curiosity and Collaboration)
• Data Driven culture has two key pursuits: truth and discovery. How to make a dashboard that builds this type of a data driven culture...
• How to deal with stakeholders who don’t appreciate the exploratory process of dashboard building… and how to set their expectations and empower them.
• Bonus: Self-correcting semi-autonomous system and its application to insurance claims processing...

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