OUR VISION
We act as a catalyst to organizations who are ready to make best use of their data, to tell their story to a broad audience, or to assist with decision-making and policy development. We help to build a pathway to better knowledge by creating user-friendly data to build a wiser1, kinder2 world.
1 Wiser because your data is presented in a uniquely extensive and interconnected framework.
2 Kinder because when people are given the tools to help them find answers easily and gain real insight, they are more likely to interact from a co-operative rather than a confrontational place.
Our Catalyst Projects Offer:
Innovative, transformative data visualization
We conceptualize, structure, and implement transformative projects using design-centric data visualization as a data culture change agent.
Unprecedented opportunities for
pan-organizational teamwork
By pulling together teams that include insiders and outsiders, we not only create a team committed to telling your story visually, we build an institutional understanding that working co-operatively to create well-planned and designed data can result in insights at every level.
Policy development to support digital innovation
We partner with forward thinkers to formulate and propose policies that ensure data is used to facilitate decisions and empower citizens.
PUBLICATIONS & REPORTS
Read the Newest Canadian Statistics
Advisory Annual Reports
Data Visualization Initiative
CER - Final Report
Canadian Statistics Advisory
Annual Reports
ANNETTE HESTER
Annette Hester heads TheHesterView Inc. and focuses on making data more approachable and effective. Her projects reflect her innovative approach in bringing together experts in their field to form teams that work together to deliver excellence in data structuring and in data visualization. Her work is notable for the quality of the design.
Ms. Hester brings decades of experience to her advisory and strategic policy services. She is a member of the Canadian Statistics Advisory Council and region head for data governance and policy for Oxford Analytica. She is currently working as an advisor to the president of Petrobras. She recently completed a data project with Natural Resources Canada. Previously, she co-ordinated a four-year project to develop an interactive data-rich website detailing the energy activities of Latin America and other member countries for the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC.
In 2012, she served as a senior strategic advisor to the Deputy Minister of the executive council and the Premier Policy Director in the Government of Alberta, Canada.
Ms. Hester has a master’s degree in economics, and was the founding director of the Latin American Research Centre at the University of Calgary. She has extensive experience as a data and energy sector consultant for leading companies, governments, and multilateral institutions in several countries of the Americas.
Throughout her career she has written for a variety of newspapers, multilateral institutions, academic publications and think-tanks. She was a frequent contributor to Oxford Analytica and has authored numerous articles in policy and energy journals.
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