We all know that the best decisions are those that are grounded in relevant and accurate data. But how do you get that data into the hands of the people in a union who need it, and how do you support them to understand what it could tell them?
One important development could be the growth of dedicated business analytics tools in the union, such as Tableau and Microsoft Power BI.
These help data owners to make dashboards and visualisations in a low-code/no-code environment. That makes it quicker and cheaper to develop new tools and to innovate and test new data projects. The published tools let end-users quickly grasp the insights from data and even interact with it to test out ideas, without needing to develop their own deep skills in data analysis.
In this Digital Lab webinar we heard from two innovative union projects aimed at making data more accessible and actionable.
UCU’s Rachel Remedios talked about the interactive dashboard they’ve developed to help organisers gain insights into different university employers’ funding and staffing. And the ITF’s Nick Hardy on developing visualisations for dockers’ unions to make decisions based on shared international port data.
Look out for our next events on data for unions on our events page.