Back at SIPA 2019 in June, Emily Laermer, managing editor for Ignites at Money-Media, presented an excellent session titled Numbers Drive Engagement: Telling Compelling Stories Using Data. Ignites covers the mutual fund industry. Her previous title at Money-Media was data visualization editor and included work for Board IQ which covers mutual fund directors.

Thanks go to Jonathan Ray, director of analytics for Access Intelligence and a speaker at next week's SIPA 2016 Conference, for tweeting that Google has just made its new data visualization and reporting platform—Data Studio 360—available for smaller businesses.