Data + Science

The big picture

Mr. Shaffer has nearly 30 years of experience in Information Technology and Analytics leading teams of IT, Data Science and Business Intelligence. He is the Joseph S. Stern Professor of Practice at the University of Cincinnati. He is one of fourteen people in the world inducted into the Tableau Visionary Hall of Fame (formerly Tableau Zen Master). He is also an author of The Big Book of Dashboards and co-host of the award winning podcast Chart Chat.

Mission

Providing presentations,training and workshops for data visualization and Tableau, artificial intelligence, and specifically large language models, ranging from keynote presentations to hands-on training.
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Skills

Data Visualization
Dashboard Design
Tableau
Generatie AI
Artificial Intelligence
Large Language Models

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Clients

Fortune 500 companies
Big 4 accounting firms
Big 6 consulting firms
Non-profit Organizations
Educational institutions
Government Entities

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Training

Mr. Shaffer has taught over 3,500 students at the University of Cincinnati and thousands of workshop attendees, teaching data visualization, descriptive analytics, decision modeling, data mining, artifical intelligence, machine learning, large language models, and Tableau training. He has many students who work in the field of data science, data analytics, data visualization, business intelligence, and Tableau development and consulting. He has presented to some of the largest companies in the world, designed training programs for a big 4 accounting firm and continues to actively teach and lecture.

What People Are Saying

2016
Shortlist for Data Visualization Website
Information is Beautiful Awards

2016
Longlist for Dear Data Two Project
Information is Beautiful Awards

2016 Adjunct Faculty of the Year
University of Cincinnati College of Business
for Operations, Business Analytics and Information Systems

2017
75 Truly Creative and Brilliant Infographic Design Examples
Column Five Media

2017
Longlist for Beautiful Trash Visualization
Information is Beautiful Awards

2017
Shortlist for The Big Book of Dashboards
Information is Beautiful Awards

2018
Longlist for The Frequency of the Myers Briggs Personality Types
Information is Beautiful Awards

2019
Longlist for Lego Pieces
Information is Beautiful Awards

2019
Longlist for Fly Me to a Campfire
Information is Beautiful Awards

2019
Longlist for Cincinnati's Coming of Age
Information is Beautiful Awards

2015-2020
Five-Time Tableau Zen Master

2021
Tableau Zen Master Hall of Fame

2021 Adjunct Faculty of the Year
University of Cincinnati College of Business
for Operations, Business Analytics and Information Systems

"Keep this instructor he is excellent!!"
"Jeff's visualization class should be a requirement for every new employee entering the firm."
"The things he made the most of are the things that are problems in many presentations and proposals."
"This has to be one of the best courses I've ever taken at any level of education."
"Watching Professor Shaffer work with Tableau was one of the most inspiring and amazing things I have ever seen."
"He is a master in his field."

JeffData Plus Science

Presentations and Workshops on Data Visualization Tableau Training Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Large Language Models

The big picture

Mission

Skills

Clients

Training

What People Are Saying

Presentations and Workshops on

Data Visualization
Tableau Training
Artificial Intelligence
Generative AI
Large Language Models