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Spotlight on Association Leadership: 3 invaluable skills to learn by 2020

Computational thinking: Ability to translate vast amounts of data into abstract concepts and to understand data-based reasoning.

Big data has arrived. Just as staff and volunteers got comfortable with Excel spreadsheets and with slicing and dicing data in endless permutations, we are now presented with the need to move beyond this current vision of data. Association leaders must become more sophisticated in their understanding of what data does or does not represent.

The ability to see bigger trends revealed by the data they have and to use it intelligently is the next frontier in data management. It is time to move beyond SurveyMonkey, to stop arguing over whether the difference between 38.2% or 39% is really statistically significant, and to see the bigger messages members are sending.

By Shelly Alcorn

Full Story: http://smartblogs.com/leadership/2012/02/01/spotlight-on-association-leadership-3-invaluable-skills-to-learn-by-2020/

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