Description:

The goal for this webcast is for everyone to walk away understanding how data inclusion is something we all must work to fix as it's not an isolated issue to people with disabilities. I will show how the lack of proper insights hinder everyone (regardless of disability status) from taking quick, appropriate, and intuitive action on any data driven insight.

The following topics will be covered:

• Being inclusive with Data: We will dive in head-first by showing some of the current issues with data visualizations and tools. I will demonstrate how a person with various disabilities would use the tool, and highlight the biggest blockers. I will then prove that these issues are not something that are isolated to people with disabilities, and motivate everyone to take action to resolve these issues.
• Proper insight creation: Humans lie, a lot. When there's personal bias put into a data visualization, very little can be trusted. This portion of the webcast will show how we need to restructure our thinking on proper insight generation so that we can react more quickly to all issues.

This webcast will demonstrate how data enables people to overcome their disabilities and live to their fullest. The discussion will also point out critical underlying flaws of data interpretation (due to human bias), and will offer action items for us to make the data world more inclusive, efficient, and connected.

About Alex Kelly

Alex Kelly is a Program Manager for Microsoft Corporation and is a hacker in his free time. He's won numerous hackathons across the country including Microsoft OneWeek, Qualcomm Uplinq, and many more. Alex's goal is to improve the world using technology — he strongly believes that technology will help us grow and become more connected, more reactive, more intelligent, and stronger as a population.

Twitter: @pros599