Nick Desbarats

As an independent instructor, I've taught data visualization and information dashboard design workshops to thousands of professionals in over a dozen countries at organizations such as NASA, Bloomberg, Visa, The United Nations, Shopify, The Internal Revenue Service, The Central Bank of Tanzania, and many others.

My book, "Practical Charts" (2023) is an Amazon #1 New Release, and I regularly contribute articles to The Journal of the Data Visualization Society (Nightingale) that are among that publication’s most widely read and shared. I regularly deliver main-stage talks at conferences such as Tableau Conference, TDWI World Conference, SAS Explorers, and Data Innovation Summit, and have lectured at Yale University, The University of Toronto, and The Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand).

I was the first and only educator to be authorized by Stephen Few to deliver his foundational data visualization and dashboard design workshops, which I taught from 2014 until launching my own workshops in 2019. Prior to 2014, I held senior executive positions at several software companies and was a co-founder of BitFlash Inc., which raised over $20M in venture financing and was sold to OpenText Corporation. In 2012, I was granted a United States patent in the decision-support field.