Picture This: a Primer on Data Analytics and Data Visualization
Joseph Oringel Overview:
By attending this CPE session, you will come away with examples and resources for how data visualization can cause positive change in the finance and audit communities. This tool-neutral session will introduce a common vocabulary for data visualization and provide examples of how to enhance communication and help your team reveal actionable insights in your data.
Why you should Attend:
If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then how many spreadsheets can you replace with a more meaningful chart or graph? What would better, data-driven decision making mean for you and your teammates?
Areas Covered in the Session:
- Analyze examples of how effective data visualization can reveal actionable insights in your data
- Compare state-of-the-art techniques for visualizing data, regardless of software tool
- Frame the different types of business questions that can be answered with data analysis, and show how those questions relate to different chart types.
- Identify and bookmark resources to allow continued learning after the session
Who Will Benefit:
- Anyone who wants to see and understand their data better
Speaker Profile
Joseph Oringel is a Managing Director at Visual Risk IQ, a national risk advisory firm established in 2006 to help finance and audit professionals see and understand their data. The firm has completed more than 200 successful data analytics and data visualization engagements and serves dozens of public sector clients and public and private corporations. Visual Risk IQ is a Tableau Alliance partner and Microsoft PowerBI partner and brings a repeatable approach to enabling finance and audit teams to build and develop sustainable, in-house analytics programs.
More recently, Joe has been a co-founder of Service AI, a start-up that built and commercialized an email-reading software robot that prioritizes and dispatches IT help desk tickets with limited human intervention. Together with his data analytics expertise, Joe uses the experience with Service AI to help Internal Audit teams and CPA firms get up the learning curve with Agentic AI, all while maintaining effective supervision and governance.
Joe has more than twenty-five years of experience in internal auditing, fraud detection, and forensics, including ten years of Big Four assurance and risk advisory services. He is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Internal Auditor and a past president and Board Member of the Charlotte IIA Chapter. He earned his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.