osae data final
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Practical Ways to Drive Your Association Using Data
Allen Lloyd and Sandy Spieker, CAEThe Ohio Society of CPAs
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What will we cover?
Overview of data Examples of how OSCPA uses data Tools to help you use data Questions
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What are you trying to accomplish?
Strategy is vital Balance what you’re looking for with
being open to what you find.
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Data are values of qualitative or quantitative variables, belonging to a set of items, or the very pale droid on Star Trek.
What is data?
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What is data’s potential?
Deep knowledge Wasted storage space Misinterpretation
Bias awareness Confusion Hidden insights Hunch confirmation
Find and measure those
things your members
MUST HAVE
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Balancing data with instinct
VS.
We don’t lie!
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How to use data
Gather
Analyze
Story
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Gathering data
Ask questions!Use technologyLink answersManage database
Ask questions!
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Diversity in the accounting profession
How many collect this data? Race / Language
Added to 2013 membership renewal Deal with questions Track population over time
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Analyze data
Inspecting – review and identify outliers, are they errors?
Cleaning – fix anything that is wrong, may have to do more than once!
Evaluating – is the data telling a story or leading to new questions?
Presenting – how can the information be easily digested by others?
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Bad data in = Bad information out!
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Tell a good story
“The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.”
Carly Fiorina, Former CEO of HP
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What is a good story?
Goal
P Barrier
Barrier
Barrier
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PIU attendance / how old are they?
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PIU attendance / where do they work?
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What is the story? What did OSCPA change?
Industry members makeup over half the audience The audience is mostly members between 40 and 60 The audience mix has held steady over time
Focus shifting from technical updates to soft skills Format changes to attract younger members Changes being considered to spread events over
entire year or offer as a webcast Will it work? The data will tell us!
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Cincinnati event location change
2009
2010
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What is the story? What did OSCPA change?
Moving the event didn’t impact attendance Those who attended 2009, but not 2010 were NOT
geographically clustered
Didn’t change anything, but will keep using data to check on impact of changes to events!
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Looking at member segments
Indu
stry
Firm
Indu
stry
Firm
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What is the story? What did OSCPA change?
Industry members are spread thin across many businesses
Firm members tend to be clustered in Big 4 and regional firms
Taylor programs to the needs of lone financial employees
Reframe discussions and assumptions when discussing the groups
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What do our members want to read from us?
High Roads data shows what members click.
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Google Analytics
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What is the story? What did OSCPA change?
Think social Meet practical needs Write great titles that would make you click
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But wait, there’s more!
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What is the story? What did OSCPA change?
Give context and value to links Use meaningful, emotional words Keep lists short and easy to scan
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Tools to help you use data
Batchgeo PowerViews Wordle
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Batchgeo
http://batchgeo.com/ Mapping should be this easy! Copy and paste location data Get map of your data Watch their video
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Excel Power View
Data becomes maps
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Excel Power View
Data becomes charts
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Wordle
http://www.wordle.net/ Creates “word clouds” More of something =
bigger word Paste lists: it counts the
frequency of each word Give each word a
number
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Practical applications
What’s a question you need answered?
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Google Fusion Tables
Links your data to established datasets
Your members with county info
+Existing map of Ohio
countiesMap of your members
Google “fusion tables”