Bill Shander’s workshop was perhaps the most highly praised workshop our department’s staff training committee organized this year. Bill was happy to work closely with us before the workshop to help tailor its contents to make it more relevant for our organization’s communications objectives and staff’s current skill level. Everyone left the day energized and more confident in their ability to tackle future data visualization projects.

Bill started with a highly entertaining and informative history lesson on data visualization and then took our team through several exercises designed to give us the tools to think about our data and our content more interactively. It was an extremely successful session for us all.

Bill led our analytics team through a full day virtual data storytelling workshop and did a fantastic job! There was excitement and energy throughout the day with the use breakout rooms and exercises to keep us engaged. Our team has a wide range of data visualization experience and everyone was able to contribute and learn in a collaborative environment. Bill kept the conversation friendly yet productive, and we received outstanding reviews from attendees after the event. I would recommend this workshop for any team that works with data.

As an Analytics & Insights team at a B2B company, we are in the depths of data and analysis all of the time and can become disconnected from the needs and preferences of our audience. Bill really helped us think about how to tell a compelling story and visualize data & insights in an engaging way. He worked through specific materials with us and gave us tips & tricks that will help bring our work to a new level.

Bill Shander’s data visualization workshops have been well received across all roles and levels at our firm. Bill is clearly an expert on the topic and he is also a talented facilitator! His creativity and flexibility in the classroom bode well for true problem solving.

From the moment the team began working with Bill, our data visualizations improved, and we began to tell better stories. Bill’s relaxed style put the team at ease and helped open them up to the possibilities of using data to help tell impactful stories.

Bill’s infographics workshop was tailored to my company and team’s needs, allowing us to develop infographics that will be used on presentations in the future. I would highly recommend this training to anyone looking for a way to tell their story in a visually impactful way!

I thought the session this morning was EXCELLENT!! Really useful, expertly delivered and engaging. I’ve seen quite a few talks on data visualization but this stood out and gave me things I’ll try and implement from now on.

Bill’s class inspired my staff. For example, he effectively led a critique of some draft visualizations, provided pointers, and walked the staff through a ‘before and after’ demo. That “real life” activity, in particular, has helped challenge the staff’s creative thinking and transformed their process and deliverables. It was tons of fun!

Bill provided a two day training for our team of Sales, Client Success and Marketing. Not only was it fun and interactive, we all learned a lot and had many immediate ideas to implement. He tailored it to our industry making our takeaways clear and actionable. Using a mix of small group activity and larger group discussion kept us all engaged, even over Zoom. I’d highly recommend bringing in Bill and we look forward to continuing to work with him!

This was one of the best if not the best learning sessions I’ve seen at IX – immediate gains in my view and I already find myself adjusting how I present my data and I am sure others are as well.

Bill is an engaging facilitator and very knowledgeable on the topic of Data Visualization. He has a unique way of mixing the lecture with activities to make for an impactful and hands-on learning experience. He also challenged us to think outside the box by providing helpful frameworks that are tangible and easy to apply immediately.

We invited Bill to come share his expertise with 24 members of public affairs and stakeholder relations teams. Bill customized a dynamic workshop specific to our needs. Bill provided a format that was engaging, educational, and inspirational. Our team is excited to put to practice his methodology and tools including his memorable acronyms for distilling messages!

Bill was great. He is very knowledgeable and ensured that there were plenty of opportunity for interaction. He was very responsive in
answering our questions and trying to clarifying things for us.

Bill was the perfect person to teach this class! His funny disposition and way that he facilitated the entire training was much appreciated!

This was such a great course! It was the best online course I’ve taken.

Excellent course, enjoyed it a lot! I do have experience in other coding languages, yet never worked with JS and D3 before. However, due to the nice step by step explanations, I could follow easily. Bill was very responsive and helpful! Recommend!

An immensely well-written and enjoyable course. Loads of insights and analyses on the most effective ways to tell a data-driven story: use linearity and digestibility in infographics to encourage progressively deeper commitment to the content by the viewer. A vignette into the human mind- really. Great stuff.

Bill was phenomenal – very knowledgeable, very engaging and was able to transfer and apply his vast knowledge and make it applicable.

Bill was great – great speaker, good at keeping our attention and keeping people engaged.

I really enjoyed this course because it was exactly what I was looking for. I wanted to learn more about what D3.js could do to visualise CSV based data and Bill did an excellent job of walking through the steps involved. Did I get every detail? No, but Bill gave me a skeleton from which I can now build and I think he did an excellent job of this.

A great, well-paced introduction to D3!

I really enjoyed the presentation. I especially liked that it was interactive. Bill was on point and responded to the comments in the chat. I liked how he concluded the session and explained how this course can enhance our analytical abilities.

THIS COURSE OPENED MY MIND

Bill is just phenomenal! What a great story teller he is and how calm he is when he is explaining things. It’s just so relaxing listening to him and absorbing all the knowledge he is sharing!

The course instructor provided tons of great ideas for presenting data. I’m an avid MS Excel user and honestly just had not thought of the many suggestion he gave in regards to creating & presenting data.

Bill was excellent in his delivery of the course. He covered a lot of ground in a restricted amount of time but kept at a steady pace. He provided just the right amount of time for, and fielded, feedback, q&a, comments, etc. He was flexible and down to earth, which is always refreshing. This could have been a very dry course, but Bill livened it up swimmingly. Thanks for sharing your invaluable knowledge with us, Bill!

I’m taking the LinkedIn learning path “Master the Concepts of Data Visualization and Storytelling” and I reeeeeeeally enjoy your courses… Made me feel like this could be my passion!

My favourite course that I’ve taken on LinkedIn Learning so far. Bill structured the course really well and presented his points in interesting ways that made me think about data visualization differerently.

This instructor is the most engaging/interesting instructor I have listened to on LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com). Virtual learning is very difficult for me- oftentimes I become distracted- unfocused- however the approach- style- voice and relaxed demeanor of this presenter makes the learning easy- engaging- and interesting. Too bad he doesn’t teach all courses!

Bill Shander is one of the best teachers and instructers [Big Four Firm] is lucky to have. He is very clear, makes it real easy to understand and engages well with his audience.

Fantastic intro to d3.js. Bill’s no-nonsense style is contagious! Thanks!!!