Great Data Minds

Confidence Is Not What You Think

Brought to you by GDM Women

Be Curious, Be Creative. Be Confident.

About this Event

Getting your good ideas across to management and other team members requires confidence, even being confident enough to fail. Our human operating system is wired for survival and designed for creativity. Together, we will explore how to access our curiosity and creativity to express our unique brilliance confidently. .

Please join Great Data Minds Women and our special guests Manju Bazzell and Patricia Klauer as they share their expertise on how to access these innate capacities.

You will also learn:

• How judgment and curiosity are related.
• How your thinking actually works.
• Where confidence comes from.

Author Series: 97 Things About Ethics Everyone In Data Science Should Know

Most of the high profile cases of real or perceived unethical activity in data science aren’t matters of bad intent. Rather, they occur because ethics simply aren’t thought through well enough.!

Bill Franks compiles contributions from top companies in technology, finance and other industries to share experiences and lessons learned from collecting, managing and analyzing data ethically. .

Please join us as Great Data Minds Advisor, Mike Lampa discusses the insights and collective wisdom of the Experts around all things data ethics in analytics.    

Get a copy of the book here. 

 

Deep Dive Google Data Services

With innovative organizations like Apple and Spotify moving their cloud workloads to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), you can dispute the advantages that Google brings to all of their cloud services. But at the heart of the platform resides well engineered data services including BigQuery, Dataflow and others that are known as being the most cost effective and fastest in the industry.

 

Please join us as Great Data Minds Advisor, Jesus Diaz a certified GCP Data Engineer, and Cloud Architect walks us through GCP’s data services and their benefits.

War Wounds and Wins: Machine Learning Stories from the Frontline

Machine Learning is quickly becoming a household term and everyone wants to build and use novel ML systems, but getting started harder looks different than you'd expect. 

 

We have invited some of the best of the best data science professionals to share their experiences with deploying machine learning solutions.  Join us as we learn from them what to do and not to do along with hearing about their projects and the impact they had.  

Author Series: Building Analytics Teams

With all the automation and augmented intelligence available today, one would think that the effectiveness of an enterprise analytics program is all about the right technology. Think again. It’s much more about the humans!!

John K. Thompson dips into his 30+ years of experience and expertise to provide the fundamentals for building and managing highly effective, efficient and performant analytic teams. He includes what to do, who to hire, which projects to undertake and what to avoid while on the journey of building an analytically sound team..

Please join us as Great Data Minds Advisor, Mike Lampa and author John Thompson discuss the advice and guidance offered by John in his most recently published book, Building Analytic Teams.

If you would like a copy of the book to enjoy before this session, it can be found on Amazon at:https://www.amazon.com/Building-Analytics-Teams-intelligence-improvement/dp/1800203160 

An Overnight Success: Connect for Health Colorado’s Move to the Cloud

Connect for Health Colorado is Colorado’s official healthcare marketplace. With more and more people moving to Colorado, thus utilizing their site to obtain insurance, they realized that their traditional analytics environments could not provide them with the information they needed to support their population. The decision was made to move their Oracle based solutions to a more agile, lower cost solution.

Please join Carlos Bossy, CEO of Datalere and the lead on this project as he walks you through Connect for Health Colorado’s journey to the cloud. Carlos will explain the decision to move to and the work that had to be done to lift and shift the environment to AWS supported by Matillion for the ETL workloads. He will also explain the work that had to be done to successfully bring up the new environment overnight.

Great Data Minds' Personal Meeting Room

We had the pleasure of interviewing another outstanding thought leader woman in the world of data, and a big proponent of women in technology: Kara M. Annanie

Thanks Kara for a great interview!

Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7oqAr60bcY 

Date: Dec 15, 2020 02:09 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

Knight at the HR Roundtable

Human Resources teams are usually on their own island when it comes to managing their HR analytics program. Due to the sensitive nature of their data, traditional IT and data teams err on the side of caution due to privacy concerns and avoid integrating critical HR data into their enterprise-wide analytic data solutions. Another challenge is the small HR teams typically do not have the analytics background and skills needed to develop valuable data and analytic products and tell a compelling story about the HR insights generated from those products. This impedes the progress towards a data driven culture for people management and development. HR teams would benefit from adopting modern data management and analytics solutions and approaches that range from self-service analytics to the continuous deployment of properly curated and secured HR data products that enable more ubiquitous access to workforce analytics. Join us for this collaborative session with Michael Chen, Senior Manager, People Analytics at Post Holdings and Mike Lampa, Advisor at Great Data Minds as they discuss the importance of the analytics program to the Human Resource organizations. What you will learn: - The evolving trends in HR analytics - The most valuable Key Performance Indicators and Metrics for HR leadership - Recommended Modern Approaches and Technologies for HR Analytics

What Real Looks Like

Data Governance and MDM are strategic programs that are critical to mature data practices. Traditionally, these programs are heavy, require expensive technology and take years to deploy. With innovative solutions and approaches, this has changed. Please join GDM Advisors Mike Lampa and Anna Navarette along with our strategic partners, Semarchy and Alation as we walk through marketing trends, new best practices, leading technologies and real-world stories from organizations that are thriving with modern data management practices.

Data Therapy

Data nightmares?

Data drama?

Do you have the Monday morning dread?

Tired of working so hard?

Join our virtual therapy session and bring us your data woes. Our team of DataOps enthusiasts will dig through your problem and prescribe DataOps solutions that can ease your pain.

We’ll start the program with an overview of the top 10 problems DataOps can solve. From there it will be an open forum, addressing your questions and even solutioning via white board if need be. Don’t worry, you will feel much better after your session.