200 SW Market Street

Do you have the know-how to direct your financial future?

Are your personal and business finances in order?

In this seminar you will learn how to take over the financial reigns and build the life you were meant to lead. We will discuss Financial Literacy, budgeting 101, cash-flow, tax advantages, risk management.

Arm yourself with the financial knowledge to take on every twist and turn life gives with grace and class.

Agenda

5:30 – 6:00: Doors Open, Networking + Food

6:00 – 6:15: Intro from Women Who Code + Northwestern Mutual

6:15 – 8:00: "Financial Fitness for the Freelancers" by Charlene + Lauren

8:00 – 8:30: More Networking + Closing Remarks

About Northwestern Mutual

Get everything you need from insurance to investments, all in one place. Northwestern Mutual puts people first with financial strength and a long-term view.

About the Presenters

Charlene Quaresma joined Northwestern Mutual 2012 in Portland, Oregon’s Mahaffey Network office. She is a licensed Advisor and holds her FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) Series 6, 63 and 65 certifications.

Lauren Ford joined Northwestern Mutual in 2016 in Portland, Oregon’s Mahaffey Network office. She is a transplant from upstate New York, who enjoys exploring the wilderness with her three pups and fiancée. One of favorite parts of Portland are how many amazing people are here.

About Women Who Code Portland

Women Who Code is a global nonprofit dedicated to inspire women to excel in technology careers. We connect amazing women with other like-minded individuals around the globe who unite under one simple notion--the world of technology is better with women in it. In Portland, we organize monthly study nights, workshops, and networking nights, as well as hackathons and social events.

Who Should Attend?

Anyone and everyone is welcome to attend, as long as you support our mission and agree to follow our Code of Conduct.

We will be talking about what data science is and isn’t, with particular focus on the skills that a data scientist is expected to bring to bear on a problem. We will discuss the educational and skill expectations of a data scientist and how those relate to the skills we’ve developed as ER Modelers.

Going by job descriptions, data science can easily read like “jack of all trades, and master of them all too”. How do we break that down into something more reasonably achievable?

• What is data science and what is a data scientist? What do they do?
• Do ER Modelers make good Data Scientists?
• Are the skill sets complementary?

And then we’ll look at some of the basics of text analytics, or extracting information from unstructured text. This won’t be nearly enough detail to make anybody a practitioner, but we will see several of the basic techniques at work and develop a functional mental model of some of the techniques. By the time we’re done, you’ll have been exposed to concepts like:

• Term-Document Matrix (TDM)
• Tokenizing
• Stopword removal (Stopping)
• Stemming
• And as a bonus – we’ll see some Python code for extracting noun phrases

Bring your questions around these topics and let’s get into them.

Our Speaker

Asoka Diggs is a Data Scientist with Intel Corp. in Hillsboro, OR. He has about 15 years of experience in a variety of data management disciplines, including database administration, ER modeling, ETL development, and data architecture. He has recently transitioned to analysis of data by completing the MS Predictive Analytics degree from Northwestern University. It turns out that there IS something even more fun than ER modeling, and he now spends most of his work time practicing his analytic modeling skills, and teaching others how to participate and contribute to predictive analytic projects.

Schedule

8:30 - 9:00 am - Sign In
9:00 - 10:15 am - Presentation
10:15 - 10:30 am - Break, Chapter Announcements
10:30 - 11:30 am - Presentation continued

Cost

Free for Members! See our corporate members at damapdx.org
$15 for Non-Members and $5 for Students with valid student ID
Covers speaker costs and refreshments

Upcoming DAMA PDX Metro Events

• September: DAMA Day 2016
• October: "Influencing Business Partners" with May Loomis
• November: "The T-Shaped Data Professional – Achieving Data Management Goals by Other Means" with Alec Sharp (Clariteq Systems Consulting)
• January 2017: "Advanced Data Visualization" with Amit P. Manghani

About DAMA Portland

The Portland Metro Chapter of the Data Administration Management Association has been serving the Portland data community since 1984. We are a not-for-profit, vendor independent, professional association dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices of enterprise information and data resource management.

The DAMA Portland Chapter is dedicated to delivering thought provoking data-centric presentations that will make you more successful in your job. Our primary purpose is to promote the understanding, development and practice of managing data, information and knowledge resources as key enterprise assets.

Please note that this DAMA PDX below has been rescheduled due to a late breaking speaker conflict.

Join us instead on August 4th to hear Asoka Diggs speaking on being a Data Scientist on August 4th. See our damapdx.org site for more details and to register for August 4th

ORIGINAL PRESENTATION:
The world produces more than 2.5 exabytes of data every day. There is just too much information out there and traditional reports using tabs, rows and columns do not paint the whole picture any longer.

Visualization is one key approach to gaining insight from this mountain of data. Advanced Visualizations Platforms have enabled the use of more dynamic and interactive business graphics, such as real-time dashboards and charts that update automatically as the data changes. It enables knowledge workers to see the trends and patterns (along with gaps and outliers) in the data that are not as easily identified in rows and columns of numbers. Even Data Scientists are leveraging advanced visualizations tools to explore, understand and communicate insights, along with the actions that need to be taken.

In this session, we will explore how advanced visualization tools are being utilized in the era of big data to draw valuable business insights and we will also delve into some of the predominant data visualization tools being used by Data Scientists.

About Us

The Portland Metro Chapter of the Data Administration Management Association is a not-for-profit, vendor independent, professional association dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices of enterprise information and data resource management.

Our primary purpose is to promote the understanding, development and practice of managing data, information and knowledge resources as key enterprise assets. We generally have our chapter Meetings on the 3rd Thursday of the month.

Upcoming DAMA PDX Metro Events

•July: "Advanced Data Visualization" with Amit P. Manghani at Cambia Health Solutions
•September: DAMA Day 2016
•October: "Influencing Business Partners" with May Loomis
•November: "The T-Shaped Data Professional – Achieving Data Management Goals by Other Means" with Alec Sharp (Clariteq Systems Consulting)

Data volume is exploding. While there may be tremendous value to the business hidden within this information, it also creates risk and additional costs which need to be managed. Your legal department is faced with additional challenges, as they now are required to search through all of this electronically stored information (ESI), which can be on the order of terabytes or even petabytes in order to find the relevant facts of litigation in which it is involved. Your colleagues need data managers like yourself to help identify, store, collect and process data that may be potentially responsive to their cases.

In this session, learn how your role fits into the information governance and e-discovery processes and how you can add immediate value to help advance your career.

Schedule

8:30 - 9:00 am - Sign In 9:00 - 10:15 am - Presentation 10:15 - 10:30 am - Break, Chapter Announcements 10:30 - 11:30 am - Presentation continued

Location

Cambia Health / Regence - Propeller Room 200 SW Market Street, Portland, OR 97201

Cost

Free for Members! $15 for Non-Members $5 for Students with valid student ID See damapdx.org for a list of our corporate members

The Portland Metro Chapter of the Data Administration Management Association has served the Portland Data Community since 1984 as a not-for-profit, vendor independent, professional association dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices of enterprise information and data resource management. Our primary purpose is to promote the understanding, development and practice of managing data, information and knowledge resources as key enterprise assets.

Morning Session - Enterprise Data Architecture

Transitioning Legacy Organizations toward a Data Centric Approach using Enterprise Architecture.

by Peter Aiken and Lewis Broome (Data Blueprint).

This presentation will offer advice recommendations, and a road map for driving your organization towards a data driven future through application of architectural concepts.

Afternoon Session - Data Visualization

Infographics and Data Visualization Design

by Randy Krum (InfoNewt)

Randy will share the science behind why infographics work, great examples of how companies are leveraging infographics to communicate information, and design secrets anyone can use to overcome the most common pitfalls and mistakes designers make.

Afternoon Workshop 1 - Enterprise Data Architecture

Applying Architecture in the Real World: A collaborative discussion on three use cases.

By exploring specific, real world use cases, you will gain new insight into the critical importance of Enterprise Architecture concepts, and how they can be applied to your organization.

Afternoon Workshop 2 - Data Visualization

Tools for Data Visualization Design

Randy will host a demonstration workshop where participants will learn how to choose the right visualization for the data and learn to use a number of both software and online data visualization tools that create different types of visualizations. Participants are encouraged (but not required) to bring their own laptop and experiment with the tools during the workshop.

Breakfast and Lunch included with registration

Early bird discount ends September 30th.

For more information and to register: http://www.damapdx.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=133&Itemid=82

The Portland Metro Chapter of the Data Administration Management Association has served the Portland data community since 1984. We are a not-for-profit, vendor independent, professional association dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices of enterprise information and data resource management.

The DAMA Portland Chapter is dedicated to delivering thought provoking, data-centric prosentations that will make you more successful in your job.

More and more organizations are working to strategically leverage data analytics in pursuit of their mission and competitive advantage. This presentation will provide an overview of the current thinking and practice in the development of enterprise analytics capabilities.

We will start with an overview of organizational analytics development as well as a framework for analytic success. From there we will present some of the new roles being created and new organizational approaches being developed to advance analytic strategy and best leverage scarce resources.

The goal is to add to your understanding of enterprise analytics development as well as your familiarity with new roles being created to support this development. We hope that this information and discussion will help you to support the advancement of analytics practice in your organization.

About the Presenter

Wil O’Shea is the Director of the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment at Pacific University as well as a freelance Tableau consultant. Institutional research is the central analytical function in colleges and universities providing analytic support, reporting, data visualization, and analysis for internal and external audiences.

In addition to his current roles, Wil has worked in a variety of analytic positions in online retail, utilities, financial services, and government organizations. Wil is the leader of the Portland area Tableau user group as well as a member of the board for the regional institutional research association. He has presented and lead workshops at numerous scholarly and professional forums.

Schedule and Registration

• 8:00 - 8:30 am - Sign In
• 8:30 - 9:45 am - Presentation
• 9:45 - 10:00 am - Break, Chapter Announcements
• 10:00 - 11:00 am - Presentation continued

• Please register at the DAMA PDX site (continental breakfast served)
• Free for members and employees of corporate members.
• $15 for guests to help cover speaker and refreshment costs.
• See the corporate member list (and register) at http://www.damapdx.org/

The Portland Metro Chapter of the Data Administration Management Association is a not-for-profit, vendor independent, professional association dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices of enterprise information and data resource management.

The DAMA Portland Chapter is dedicated to delivering thought provoking, data-centric presentations that will make you more successful in your job

This will be a brief introduction to some of the important concepts that arise in data mining in general and classification analysis in particular. The focus in this presentation will be helping attendees to develop their ability to frame business problems as data mining problems.

Through a demonstration driven presentation format, attendees will be exposed to a variety of data mining topics. Throughout the demo, attention will be paid to points of intersection with traditional data modeler work products including the data dictionary and dimensional data model. I will also leave you with a variety of links and references for additional study on your own.

Particular topics that will be addressed:

• Formulating business problems as data mining problems
• Supervised Learning
• Classification methods including Decision Tree and Logistic Regression
• Model Validation
• No math!

Registration Required

Please register at the DAMA PDX site (continental breakfast served)

Free for members and employees of corporate members.

$15 for guests to help cover speaker costs. See the DAMAPDX site for a list of corporate members.

The Portland Chapter of the DAMA Data Management User Group is dedicated to delivering thought provoking data-centric presentations that will make you more successful in your job.

This month, we are bringing in Richard Sheridan, the CEO and "Chief Storyteller" at Menlo Innovations from Michigan to the Propeller room at the 200 Market Building.

Registration is required: http://www.damapdx.org/

Overview:

Every year, thousands of visitors come from around the world to visit Menlo Innovations, a small software company in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They make the trek not to learn about technology but to witness a radically different approach to company culture.

CEO and "Chief Storyteller" Rich Sheridan removed the fear and ambiguity that typically make a workplace miserable. His own experience in the software industry taught him that, for many, work was marked by long hours and mismanaged projects with low-quality results. There has to be a better way.

With joy as the explicit goal, Sheridan and his team changed everything about how the company was run. They established a shared belief system that supports working in pairs and embraces making mistakes, all while fostering dignity for the team.

The results blew away all expectations. Menlo has won numerous growth awards and was named an Inc. magazine "audacious small company". It has tripled its physical office three times and produced products that dominate markets for its clients.

Speaker Bio:

From kid programmer in 1971 to Forbes cover story in 2003, "outlier" Richard Sheridan(U-M grad BS Computer Science '80, MS Computer Engineering '82) has never shied from challenges, opportunities nor the limelight. While his focus has always been around technology, his passion is actually process, teamwork and organizational design, with one inordinately popular goal: the business value of joy! Sheridan is an avid reader and historian, and his software design and development team at Menlo Innovations didn't invent a new culture, but copied an old one ... Edison's Menlo Park New Jersey lab. Henry Ford's recreation of the Menlo Park Lab in Greenfield Village was a childhood inspiration!

Some call it agile, some call it lean ... Sheridan and his team call it joyful. And it produces results ... business and otherwise. Five Inc. magazine revenue growth awards, invites to the White House, speaking engagements around the nation, numerous articles and culture awards and so much interest they are doing a tour a day of the Menlo Software Factory™. Sheridan was recently enlisted by Portfolio at Penguin to write a book about all he has learned about the effect of a culture focused on Joy. Rich is writing in his "spare time”.