DAMA Philadelphia presents Data Analytics

Wednesday, September 13th, 2017, 8:30-3pm

Hosted by
 

Location:  1601 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA
Note:  RSVP by 9/6.  Due to security restrictions, no walk-ins will be admitted.  


Presentations:  

  • Data Visualization:  The Science of Persuasion and the Art of Analytics
    Presented by Cliff Tironi
    Manager Performance Analytics, The Fox School of Business, Temple University
     
  • Ethics in Big Data Analytics
    Presented by  Mercy Beckham
    Solutions Architect, CapTech Consulting
     
  • Data Analytics:  Penn Medicine Use Case
    Presented by Pat Farrell
    Senior Director Data Analytics, Penn Medicine

Sponsors:  

Agenda:
8:30 - 9:00 Registration, Breakfast.     (Please bring ID to be cross-checked against RSVP's by Cigna security downstairs).
9:00 - 9:15  DAMA Update - Thank you Cigna & Matt Peck for logistics!    New CDMP exam structure (Gabrielle Festa).      November meeting preview at a2c  (Chantal).    Today's agenda overview.  
9:15 - 9:30  Breakfast Sponsor Presentation: Hortonworks
9:30 - 10:45 Featured Speaker Cliff Tironi - Data Visualization: The Science of Persuasion, and the Art of Analytics
10:55 - 11:45 Mercy Beckham - Ethics in Big Data Analytics
11:45 - 12:00 Lunch Sponsor Presentation: CapTech
12:00 - 12:45 Lunch & Networking
12:45 - 1:15 Round-table discussion - What's New in Data Analytics - Lead by Stacey Haurin
1:15 - 1:30   Sponsor Presentation: IDMA
1:30 - 2:30  Pat Farrell - Data Analytics: Penn Medicine Use Case
2:30 - 3:30  wrap-up, announcements, raffles

3:30 -- Happy Hour @ Uptown Beer Garden, off 18th & Market

 

Cliff Tironi

As more data is available, the need for data-driven visual narratives is required across a wide range of industries and functional areas. This seminar introduces you to the essential skills involved in data visualization, equipping participants with the concepts and tools to organize, analyze and visualize data in effective, compelling and persuasive ways. Through real-life examples from healthcare, finance, journalism and government, participants will learn how to create content to become rich user experiences that convey a deeper yet intuitive understanding of material. This seminar will cover proven techniques in creating effective reports, presentations and dashboards. Participants will play an active, participatory role through various hands-on activities.

As the Manager of Performance Analytics at the Fox School of Business at Temple University, Cliff Tironi understands the challenges of harnessing never-ending data—and the need to leverage it in imaginative yet impactful ways. With over 10 years’ experience in higher education, Cliff regularly conducts data visualizations workshops to business professionals across all industries, coaching others to embrace the humanized mindset as a means to making data more relatable and, most importantly, actionable.

Cliff is also co-founder and Director of Analytics of DevelapMe, a real-time competency-based feedback app that helps organizations drive individual, team and organizational performance  www.DevelapMe.com

Mercy Beckham

"Ethics" is one of the important and often underestimated topic in data analytics. The growth of the big data analytics market is electrifying as it promises to explore the untapped potential in growing business, finding drugs, stopping security threats, improving food production, governing the country and many more. This exorbitant interest leads to naïve analytics that opens organizations to ethical challenges. A Gartner study predicts that by 2018, 50 percent of business ethics violations will occur through improper use of big data analytics. This presentation intends to address the considerations of ethics in big data analytics.

Mercy Beckham, Solutions Architect, CapTech Consulting: Over 15 years of experience in IT consulting, including Architecture and System Design, Technology Presales services, Content Management, Cloud Services and Big Data. Web Site - https://mydataexperiments.com/

Pat Farrell

Healthcare and modern medicine are driving towards delivering more personalized health solutions both for patients and those that we can help prevent from becoming future patients. At Penn Medicine, there are a number of initiatives underway to help drive personalized medicine and population health, and data and data analytics solutions are necessary approaches to help implement them. Use of search and navigation, natural language processing, predictive analytics and high performance analytics are all some examples that we will present.

Patrick Farrell is the Senior Director of Data Analytics at Penn Medicine. Penn Medicine is one of the world’s leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and excellence in patient care. Penn Medicine consists of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (founded in 1765 as the nation’s first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which together form a $5.3 billion enterprise. Penn Medicine provides services to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Pennsylvania Hospital, Chester County Hospital, Lancaster General Hospital and the health system network that serves the city of Philadelphia, the surrounding five county area and parts of southern New Jersey. Mr. Farrell joined Penn Medicine in 2013 and is currently responsible for data analytics, architecture and presentation.