BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20090308T020000 RDATE:20090308T020000 RDATE:20100314T020000 RDATE:20110313T020000 RDATE:20120311T020000 RDATE:20130310T020000 RDATE:20140309T020000 RDATE:20150308T020000 RDATE:20160313T020000 RDATE:20170312T020000 RDATE:20180311T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20091101T020000 RDATE:20091101T020000 RDATE:20101107T020000 RDATE:20111106T020000 RDATE:20121104T020000 RDATE:20131103T020000 RDATE:20141102T020000 RDATE:20151101T020000 RDATE:20161106T020000 RDATE:20171105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090409T174023Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090526T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090526T113000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090409T174023Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090409T174023Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250456959 DESCRIPTION:Cloud computing is the hot buzz phrase for 2009. But what exa ctly IS cloud computing and how does it affect QA organizations and prac tices? Well\, QA SIG has just the program for you. Come hear IBM's Dan C arr from the Cloud Computing Engagements team! Dan will give us a broad overview of Cloud types and their impacts to enterprise customers as wel l as to Software Vendors. He will also discuss the impact of Cloud compu ting on QA and test organizations and end up reviewing problems and best practices!\n \n Speaker:\n Dan Carr\, Executive IT Archi tect\, IBM\n (Tivoli Cloud Computing Client Engagement Team)\n \n #saopdx #qa\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/12504 56959 URL:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2401997/ SUMMARY:SAOpdx: Cloud Computing: Cloud Types and the Impacts to Enterpris es\, Software Vendors\, QA and Test Organizations LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090825T224721Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090910T110000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090910T110000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090825T224721Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20090825T224721Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250457611 DESCRIPTION:The software quality industry needs to move away from finding \, reproducing\, documenting\, prioritizing defects and validating fixes . We need to move to preventing defects. Ian will introduce a quality-ba sed strategy that reduces total quality costs\, increases profit\, and m akes QA work fun and rewarding based on work by Juran\, Crosby\, Deming\ , Krasner and his own experiences.\n \n Presenter: Ian Savage\ , McAfee\n Ian Savage\, CSQE\, has 30 years experience in software – as a developer\, QA engineer\, manager and executive in the manufact uring\, financial services\, construction\, and software security. He is a quality evangelist who readily adopted structured methods in the 1980 s\, process characterization and modeling in the 1990s\, and agile metho ds this decade. He serves on various SAO and PNSQC boards and committees and wants you to share his excitement about our industry’s future.\n\ nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250457611 URL:http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4355989/ SUMMARY:SAOpdx: Quality Cost Management LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130409T053006Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130416T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130416T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130409T053006Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130409T053006Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250463987 DESCRIPTION:Join other Portland area data professionals at this motnh's D AMA PDX Meeting April 16 in Downtown Portland. \;\n \;\nTopic Over view: It's the latest buzz - big data - but short of mapping the human g enome or running Facebook\, how do the rest of us benefit from the techn ologies and approaches to big data problems\, even if we have more modes t size data streams. What are some of the emerging best practices\, and approaches to this space\, and how do we begin the journey? Hear from Do ug Farr\, CIO at Splunk. \;\n \;\nLocation and registration at htt p://www.damapdx.org/. Free for corporate and individual members. \;\ n\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250463987 URL:http://www.damapdx.org/ SUMMARY:DAMA PDX April Meeting - Topic: Opportunity of Big Data. LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140102T051734Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140121T120000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140121T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140102T051734Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140117T050458Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250465419 DESCRIPTION:ANNOUNCEMENT: Our Speaker has a unavoidable conflict and will not be able to make it to Portland on the 21st. \;\n \;\nPLEASE N OTE THE CHANGE OF TOPIC AND SPEAKER. We will reschedule Paul and Kim on the topic of Building Highly Engaged Technical Teams at a later time.&# 13\;\n \;\nWe apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. Looking forward to seeing you all and a great interactive presentation!& #13\;\n \;\nRegistration and Location logistics remain the same (see original message below). \;\n \;\nPLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF LOCATION: In order to accommodate more registrants\, we are moving January 2014 DA MA event to another DOWNTOWN location. \;\n \;\nThe DAMA Portland Chapter is dedicated to delivering thought provoking data-centric presen tations that will make you more successful in your job. Coming this mon th on 21Jan\, the DAMA Portland Chapter will be hosting Sudhir Menon on the topic of ‘Build your Online apps on Hadoop today' at the Standard In surance Auditorium in downtown Portland. \;\n \;\nRegister at: htt p://www.damapdx.org/ \;\n \;\nSummary \;\nHadoop has come a lon g way from the time Yahoo open sourced an effort based on a paper produc ed by Google. Hadoop is a billion dollar industry and is disrupting the way the world looks at data\, the value of data and the intelligence tha t can be gleaned from data. Wherever you are in your Hadoop learning cu rve\, you’ll likely learn something from this presentation. Even if you are brand new (perhaps especially if you are new)\, this is a great tim e to get some exposure\, learn about Haddoop’s capabilities and see how to get started. It’s not scary. \;\n \;\nSimultaneously\, the i n-memory revolution is moving towards mainstream adoption. Sudhir will t alk about how you can move past OLTP and OLAP and embrace OLEP (Online E verything Processing) and what that means to the way we build cloud scal e applications AND deliver value to customers in ways that are unprecede nted and were not feasible up until now. He’ll talk about the solution c haracteristics and the elements of the technology stack that allow you t o build these kinds of applications. Don’t miss this opportunity. \; \n \;\nSchedule \;\n8:30 - 9:00 am - Sign In / Refreshments \;\ n9:00 - 10:15 am - Presentation \;\n10:15 - 10:30 am - Break\, Chapt er Announcements \;\n10:30 - 11:30 am - Presentation continued \ ;\n \;\nFree for members! \;\n$15 for guests \;\nSee web si te for the list of our corporate members \;\n \;\nNote: We have re ceived feedback that registering on the DAMA site is not as easy as it c ould be\, given the need to create an account on the site. Alternative: If you encounter difficulties registering on the site\, it is sufficien t to send an email to board@damapdx.org. \n\nImported from: http://calag ator.org/events/1250465419 URL:http://www.damapdx.org/ SUMMARY:NEW DAMA SPEAKER - Was: Building Highly Engaged Technical Teams / Now: Build your Online apps on Hadoop today LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140316T013153Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140318T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140318T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140316T013153Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140316T013153Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250465843 DESCRIPTION:To build a truly exceptional technical team\, you need to do 3 things: engage them\, enable them\, and energize them. \;\n \;\ nJoin the DAMA Portland Chapter to welcome Paul Spencer\, an expert coll aboration leader on the topic of Building Highly Engaged Technical Teams . \;\n \;\nMore details and registration at: http://www.damapdx.or g/ \;\n \;\nEmployees of DAMA Corporate Members are FREE! \;\n& #13\;\nSummary \;\nTechnical team leaders are often highly trained in their chosen field. But they’re also often not trained in how to lead a team. They know that leadership is just as important as the technical side of the job (if not more so)\, but they’ve been left to figure out how to do it for themselves. They’re frustrated because they haven’t go t the toolkit they need to get the best out of their team. \;\n \; \nIn this interactive presentation\, we'll cover the following topics:&# 13\;\n \;\n- The benefits of having a highly engaged team \;\n \;\n- How to engage\, enable and energize your project team \;\n \ ;\n- Aligning the team on communication styles and workplace values \ ;\n \;\n- Empowering the team through servant leadership \;\n \ ;\n- Creating and sustaining a culture of high performance \;\n \; \n- Building performance drivers into the daily experience \;\n \; \n- Simple techniques for maintaining momentum \;\n\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250465843 URL:http://www.damapdx.org/ SUMMARY:Building Highly Engaged Technical Teams LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140609T033341Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140617T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140617T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140609T033341Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140610T001835Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250466410 DESCRIPTION:The DAMA Portland Chapter is dedicated to delivering thought provoking data-centric presentations that will make you more successful in your job. \;\n \;\nMore enterprises are importing data from ext ernal sources (which they cannot control)\, and integrating that data ei ther into their operational systems or into their data warehouse. Data f rom external (uncontrolled) sources can be problematic because (1) their logical data architecture can be different\, and (2) they can morph the ir architecture\, scope\, or definitions of the data which you receive w ithout telling you. Hence\, the need for a rigorous declaration of expe ctations in the agreement to establish that data flow and business relat ionship. \;\n \;\nThis presentation will focus upon data import\, and semantic data integration. \;\n \;\nMr. Scofield has spoken on these topics for over 14 years\, and will use numerous (painful) exampl es. \;\n \;\n About the Presenter \;\nMichael Scofield is an A ssistant Professor in Health Information Management at Loma Linda Univer sity in the Department of Health Information Management. He was a 2007 n ominee for the DAMA Intl. Award for Professional Achievement. He is a fr equent speaker to a variety of professional and general audiences on top ics of data management\, data quality\, data warehouse design\, and data visualization. His career has included education and private industry i n the areas of data quality\, decision-support systems\, data warehousin g\, and data management. His articles appear in DM Review\, the B-Eye Ne wsletter\, InformationWeek magazine\, the IBI Systems Journal\, and othe r professional journals. He also has humor published in the L.A. Times a nd other journals. \;\n \;\n Registration Requested / Cost \;\ nPlease register at the DAMAPDX site (continental breakfast served). \;\n \;\nFree for members and employees of corporate members. \;\n $15 for guests. See the DAMAPDX site to registefor list of corporate me mbers\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250466410 URL:http://www.damapdx.org/ SUMMARY:DAMAPDX: Importing Data and Semantic Data Integration for the Dat a Warehouse LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140702T233820Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140715T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140715T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140702T233820Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140702T233820Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250466597 DESCRIPTION:Registration Required at http://www.damapdx.org/ or at the do or. \;\n \;\nThe DAMA Portland Chapter is dedicated to delivering thought provoking data-centric presentations that will make you more suc cessful in your job. \;\n \;\nWhat do winning the Americas Cup\, p redicting crime in LA\, understanding casino gamblers spending partners\ , exposing real estate fraudulent schemes have in common? They all relie d on MDM to deliver results\, fast\, trusted and sustainable. \;\nLet ’s learn more about all this business cases\, be inspired to take our pr ojects further and grab the keys to get started. \;\nBased on Stanfor d’s highly rated “Tame Data for Big Insight” class from Continuing Studi es program\, this session combines real case studies with known data bes t practices in an interactive format where business meets IT to take awa y concrete next steps to engage on a solid roadmap today. \;\n \;\ n Speaker Bio: \;\nGauthier Vasseur\, is an excellent speaker and tho ught leader in BI. Gauthier is the Chief Operations Officer for Semarch y (“Semarchy enables organizations to consolidate and enrich master data across all their business domains. The Semarchy Convergence platform is specifically designed to reduce Master Data Management (MDM) project ti mescales and costs\, for simple as well as complex master data projects. “). \;\n \;\n Schedule \;\n8:30 - 9:00 am - Sign In \;\n9: 00 - 10:15 am - Presentation \;\n10:15 - 10:30 am - Break\, Chapter Announcements \;\n10:30 - 11:30 am - Presentation continued \;\n&# 13\;\n Cost \;\nFree for members and employees of our corporate memb ers! \;\n$15 for guests \;\nList of corporate members at http:/ /www.damapdx.org/\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/12504665 97 URL:http://www.damapdx.org/ SUMMARY:DAMAPDX: It's the perfect time to lift your data game with MDM LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140908T032212Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140916T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140916T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140908T032212Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20140908T032212Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250466947 DESCRIPTION:The world of Enterprise Information Management is going throu gh a generational change – the emergence of Big Data technologies in par ticular is offering new opportunities\, but also\, perhaps\, posing new risks. One issue that comes up in my discussions fairly regularly is &qu ot\;How should we start with metadata management?"\; Initial metadat a management projects often have often foundered because they are wrongl y scoped\, wrongly structured\, poorly justified or based on unverified assumptions. The addition of new technologies to the mix isn’t going to make this easier. \;\n \;\nIan will put metadata management in con text of changing information management practices and will walk through 10 "\;Best Practices"\; that have proved their worth in creating early success\, with a focus on how each one contributes to project val ue\, or cost reduction. I’ll focus on: \;\n\n \;\nJustifying metad ata management \;\n \;\n \;\nManaging your stakeholders \;\n \;\n \;\nScoping a project \;\n \;\n \;\nMarketing your solution \;\n \;\n \;\nManaging for sustainability \;\n \ ;\n \;\nWorking with vendors \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\nMore info rmation and registration available at www.damapdx.org \;\n \;\n 3\;\nSpeaker Bio: \;\n \;\nIan Rowlands is a VP of Product Managem ent at ASG. He heads product management for Metadata and Application Man agement and is also tasked with providing input across ASG’s entire port folio. Ian has also served as Vice President of ASG’s repository develop ment organization. Prior to joining ASG\, Ian served as Director of Indi rect Channels for Viasoft\, a leading Enterprise Application Management vendor that was later acquired by ASG where he was responsible for relat ionships with Viasoft’s distributor partners outside North America. He h as worked extensively in metadata management and IT systems and financia l management\, and presented at conferences world-wide\, including DAMA and CMG. He also publishes numerous whitepapers as well as blogging for Dataversity on data\, metadata and Big Data topics \;\n\n\nTags: DAMA \, data\, mdm\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250466947 URL:http://www.damapdx.org SUMMARY:Generation​al Change in Enterprise Informatio​n Management - 10 B est Practices LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150416T033132Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150421T110000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150421T080000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150416T033132Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150416T033132Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250468277 DESCRIPTION:In the current era of global business where information and a ccess reign supreme\, the companies that are able to leverage their corp orate data assets to the fullest are the companies where people flourish . \;\n \;\nThe Portland Data Management user group (DAMAPDX.org) i s dedicated to delivering thought provoking\, data-centric presentations that will make you more successful as a data professional. We are volu nteer-run organization serving the local data community for over 10 year s. \;\n \;\nOn 21Apr\, our topic is the Data Management Maturity M odel\, featuring Melanie Mecca from CMMI. Registration is required. Vi sit damapdx.org for more information and to register. \;\n \;\nThe DMM model helps organizations become more proficient in managing critic al data assets to improve operations\, enable analytics and gain competi tive advantage. The DMM model serves as a catalyst and a platform for th e growth of a global community of professionals and practitioners who ar e committed to advancing the state of the practice. \;\n \;\nThe D MM model was developed using the principles and structure of CMMI Instit ute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) a proven approach to performance improvement and the gold standard for software and systems development for more than 20 years\, originating in Carnegie Mellon Univ ersity Software Engineering Institute. \;\n \;\nOver the last two decades CMMI has been adopted in over 94 countries\, applied in thousan ds of organizations\, and has directly impacted the professional develop ment of over 150\,000 people. \;\n \;\n \;\nAbout The Speaker&# 13\;\n \;\nMelanie Mecca is the CMMI Institute’s Program Manager for the Data Management Maturity (DMM) Model\, and a primary author of the D MM since January 2011. \;\n \;\nShe has led DMM Assessments for th e Securities and Exchange Commission\, the Office of Financial Research\ , Microsoft Corporation\, Fannie Mae\, the Federal Reserve System Statis tics Function\, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and Freddie Mac. \ ;\n \;\nShe has architected and implemented data strategies and organ ization-wide data management improvement programs\, and managed programs and projects to design: enterprise data architectures\, master data hub s\, data warehouse components\, and shared data services. \;\n \;\ n \;\n \;\nSchedule \;\n \;\n\n \;\n8:00 - 8:30 am - Sig n In \;\n \;\n \;\n8:30 - 9:45 am - Presentation \;\n \ ;\n \;\n9:45 - 10:00 am - Break\, Chapter Announcements \;\n \; \n \;\n10:00 - 11:00 am - Presentation continued \;\n \;\n\n 3\;\nFree for members! \;\n \;\n \;\n$15 for guests \;\n \;\n \;\nSee damapdx.org for the list of our corporate members \;\ n \;\n\n\n\nTags: data\, Data Management\, CMMI\n\nImported from: htt p://calagator.org/events/1250468277 URL:http://damapdx.org SUMMARY:Learn about the Data Management Maturity Model LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150503T223650Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150519T110000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150519T080000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150503T223650Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150503T223650Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250468365 DESCRIPTION:How does GAP\, Inc respond to the challenge of bringing toget her metadata across all their data systems? Gap's Data Architect\, Alain Knechtli\, will be coming to Portland May 19th to tell us about their c ommon framework for reporting and management. \;\n \;\nFellow Love rs of Data\, join me for this great opportunity for face-to-face educati on. For more information and to register\, go to damapdx.org. \;\n 3\;\n \;\nSummary \;\n \;\nMany organizations are stuck with a plethora of disparate systems. This presentation will address GAP Inc.’s response to the challenge of bringing together metadata under a common framework for reporting and management. It will also include a forward l ooking strategy for incorporating new or narrowly technologies into the metadata framework. \;\n \;\n• Agile Logical modeling? \;\n• W hat’s left to model? Measuring the metadata backlog \;\n• When is a m odel just barely good enough? \;\n• Ubiquitous language - Dealing wit h synonyms\, and dialects \;\n• Managing technical debt when there ar e discrepancies across applications and domains \;\n• Modeling servic es \;\n• Modeling new technologies \;\n• How do legacy systems imp lement the Enterprise Logical Model? \;\n \;\n \;\nSPEAKER BIO& #13\;\n \;\nAlain Knechtli is a seasoned data architect with over 30 years of experience across many facets of information technology. In the data architecture and metadata sphere\, a partial list of Alain's clien ts includes GE\, Cisco\, Netflix\, and Gap Inc. Alain is currently playi ng a key role in Gap Inc.'s endeavor to expand the traditional modeling paradigm to include non-traditional sources and environments. His leader ship has enabled the creation of a modeling framework that includes lega cy and new applications in an agile environment. He has facilitated the evolution of data architecture from a 'bottleneck' to a 'facilitator' of rapid\, incremental development. \;\n \;\n \;\nEvent Details&# 13\;\n \;\n \;\nWhen: May 19\, 2015 \;\n \;\nSchedule: 8:0 0 - 8:30 am - Sign In \;\n8:30 - 9:45 am - Presentation \;\n9:45 - 10:00 am - Break\, Chapter Announcements \;\n10:00 - 11:00 am - Pr esentation continued \;\n \;\nLocation: Standard Insurance Buildi ng \;\n900 SW 5th Ave\, Portland\, OR 97204 \;\n \;\nCost: Free for members! $15 for guests to cover speaker travel costs and refreshm ents ($5 for students with current ID). See damapdx.org for the list of our corporate members \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\nAbout DAMA - Port land Chapter \;\n \;\nThe Portland Data Management user group (DAM APDX.org) is dedicated to delivering thought provoking\, data-centric pr esentations that will make you more successful as a data professional. W e are volunteer-run organization serving our local data community since the 1980s. \;\n\n\nTags: metadata\, DAMA\, Data Archtitecture\, repor ting\, data\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250468365 URL:http://damapdx.org SUMMARY:GAP Inc's Data Architect speaking in Portland May 19th at DAMA PD X LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150606T170358Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150616T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150616T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150606T170358Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150606T170358Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250468596 DESCRIPTION:Fellow Lovers of Data\, join me for this great opportunity fo r face-to-face education. For more information and to register\, go to d amapdx.org. \;\n \;\nKevin Van Gundy\, Graph Advocate at Neo Techn ology\, will be coming to our Portland DAMA group Tuesday June 16th to p resent\, explain and discuss Graph Databases. This is a high level disc ussion around graph databases that starts with an overview of Graph Data bases as a category\, why graphs matter\, and then reviews the differenc e between relational\, other NoSQL stores\, and graph models. Kevin will use Neo4j as the basis for a practical discussion of how graphs are imp lemented in the real world\, as well as demonstrate how to query Neo4j u sing the Cypher Query Language. \;\n \;\nNo prior knowledge on gra ph databases is required. \;\n \;\nDate: Tuesday June 16. Locatio n: Downtown Portland. Time: 8:30 to 11:30am \;\n \;\nFree for mem bers and employees of corporate members. $15 for non-members to cover r efreshments and speaker travel costs. $5 for students with valid ID. 3\;\n \;\nThe Portland Data Management user group (DAMAPDX.org) is de dicated to delivering thought provoking\, data-centric presentations tha t will make you more successful as a data professional. We are volunteer -run organization serving our local data community since the 1980s. \ ;\n\n\nTags: DAMA\, Neo4j\; Graphs\; Graph Databases\n\nImported from: h ttp://calagator.org/events/1250468596 URL:http://damapdx.org SUMMARY:Beyond Databases: What Graphs Do and Tables Don't LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150629T022046Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150721T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150721T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150629T022046Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150629T023540Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250468697 DESCRIPTION:Fellow Lovers of Data\, join me at DAMA in Downtown Portland on July 21st for a great face-to-face education opportunity. This month\ , we are bringing in Sanjay Shirude\, an internationally recognized tech nologist to speak on the topic of "\;Implementing Data Management St rategy through Data Governance and Data Quality process"\; \;\n&# 13\;\nWhat you will learn: \;\n- What is Data management strategy\, d ata governance and data quality process? \;\n- What is the relationsh ips amongst them? \;\n- How to begin developing unambiguous practices to maintain organization data assets. \;\n \;\nDate: Tuesday July 21. Location: Downtown Portland. Time: 8:30 to 11:30am \;\n \;\nF ree for members and employees of corporate members. $15 for non-members to cover refreshments and speaker travel costs. $5 for students with val id ID. \;\n \;\nThe Portland Data Management user group (DAMAPDX.o rg) is dedicated to delivering thought provoking\, data-centric presenta tions that will make you more successful as a data professional. We are volunteer-run organization serving our local data community since the 19 80s. \;\n \;\nAbstract: \;\nData management strategy describes what\, why and when to manage an organization’s data assets. While data management functions describe where\, who and how these assets will be m anaged\, without data management strategy the data management program is rudderless. Without data management functions the data management prog ram is haphazard\, and without effective communication the data manageme nt program is obscured. These three process are\, in essence\, the “Locu s of Cultural Change” - challenges to As–Is accountabilities\, decision s and habits. It is important to know\, how the data governance and data quality process simplifies the implementation of this cultural change a nd assists in implementing data management strategy. This presentation w ill walk through the process of developing data governance and data qual ity practices to effectively implement data management strategy. \;\n \;\n About the Speaker: \;\nSanjay Shirude is a practitioner\, c onsultant\, and educator in the field of Business Information and Techno logy Integration. He brings a simplified and balanced perspective to tra nsforming data into integrated intelligent impressions through a career of more than twenty five (25) years\, encompassing both business leaders hip and technical roles. Sanjay now focuses on management strategies\, s ystems integration\, best practices and training as keys to simplifying application automation and data integration. \;\n \;\nSanjay is a recognized international speaker. His consulting and mentoring practice focuses on areas such as Data Governance\, Enterprise Data Warehousing\, Master Data Management (MDM)\, applied Business Intelligence architectu re/analytics\, Data Maturity Model\, and application of yogic techniques to data management. Sanjay has served as executive board member for DAM A-I\, DAMA-PS\, and NCMA South Sound Chapter. Sanjay is co-author and co ntributor to the Data Management Body of Knowledge-II (DMBOK-II). Sanj ay holds a Ph.D. in Information Management\; Masters in Statistics\, Mas ters in Management and PMP\, CDMP\, CBIP\, and Enterprise Data Managemen t Expert (from CMMI) Certifications. \;\n\n\nTags: data management da ta governance data quality\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events /1250468697 URL:http://www.damapdx.org/ SUMMARY:Implementing Data Management Strategy through Data Governance and Data Quality Process - DAMA July 2015 LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150906T051413Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150915T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150915T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150906T051413Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20150906T051413Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250469031 DESCRIPTION:Why do Enterprise Data Warehouses take so long\, cost so much and too often cannot answer my questions? \;\n \;\nAn Enterpris e Data Warehouse (EDW) is a critical factor in getting a leg up on the c ompetition. Organizations invest millions of dollars and thousands of p erson hours designing\, implementing and maintaining their EDW. Far too often\, those responsible for the EDW are disappointed that the EDW doe s not provide a competitive advantage and costs to maintain it keep clim bing. \;\n \;\nThis presentation will explore the reasons why so many EDW implementations don't live up to expectations. We will also dis cuss some ways to have a high probability of success in implementing an EDW at a low initial cost and a low total cost of ownership (TCO) throug h Data Warehouse Automation (DWA) technology. We will discuss: \;\n& #13\;\n \;\nHow DWA significantly reduces time and cost\, while at th e same time increasing quality and user satisfaction \;\nIdentify the industry leaders \;\nDiscuss how DWA by itself does not necessarily guarantee success \;\nDiscuss how Enterprise Database Design Pattern s coupled with DWA help ensure success \;\n \;\n \;\nWe will cl ose with a demo of how DWA technology works by building a data mart for Sales with slowly changing dimensions and incremental loading\, generati ng the data warehouse relational tables as well as cubes\, populating th e data warehouse and cubes and running some reports \;\n \;\n \ ;\nFor more information and to register: \;\nhttp://www.damapdx.org/i ndex.php?option=com_content&\;view=article&\;id=134 \;\n \;\ n \;\n8:30 - 9:00 am - Sign In and Continental Breakfast \;\n9:00 - 10:15 am - Presentation \;\n10:15 - 10:30 am - Break\, Chapter A nnouncements \;\n10:30 - 11:30 am - Presentation continued \;\n& #13\;\n \;\n \;\nFree for members! \;\n$15 for guests to cover speaker and breakfast costs \;\nSee our list of corporate members at: http://www.damapdx.org \;\n \;\n \;\nThe Portland Metro Chapte r of the Data Administration Management Association has been serving the Portland Data Community since 1984. We are a not-for-profit\, vendor i ndependent\, professional association dedicated to advancing the concept s and practices of enterprise information and data resource management.\ n\nTags: Data Warehouse Automation DWA Data Database Patterns Enterprise Database Design Patterns DAMA\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/ev ents/1250469031 URL:http://www.damapdx.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1 34 SUMMARY:Data Warehouse Automation (DWA) and Enterprise Database Design Pa tterns - DAMA September Chapter Meeting LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151109T000138Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151117T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151117T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151109T000138Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151109T001412Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250469370 DESCRIPTION:I have had the pleasure of hearing Karen Lopez speak at data conferences before. She is an engaging\, informative speaker on a wide range of data topics. Coming to Portland from Toronto to speak at our l ocal DAMA chapter Nov 17th. \;\n \;\nThe DAMA Portland Chapter is dedicated to delivering thought provoking data-centric presentations tha t will make you more successful in your job. \;\n \;\nDetails \ ;\nA highly interactive and popular session where attendees evaluate the options and best practices of common and advanced data modeling issues\ , such as: \;\n \;\n \;\nParty/party role \;\n \;\n \; \nNatural vs. surrogate keys \;\n \;\n \;\nAgile &\; other m odern methods \;\n \;\n \;\nWho does what? \;\n \;\n \ ;\nData type precision vs delivery time \;\n \;\n \;\nStandards vs proprietary Modeling \;\n \;\n \;\nData Modeling patterns&# 13\;\n \;\n...and more. \;\n \;\n \;\nParticipants in this s ession will be presented with an issue along with a range of responses o r possible solutions. Participants will vote on their preferred response \, then the group as a whole will discuss the results\, along with the m erits of each possible response. If the specific issue has been discusse d in other presentations\, a summary of the responses of the other group s will be presented. The goal of this workshop is to help practitioners identify potential points of conflict in data modeling\, as well as alte rnative approaches to resolving the issues. \;\n \;\n About Karen Lopez \;\nKaren López is a principal consultant at InfoAdvisors\, Inc .\, a Toronto-based consulting firm. Karen has spoken at several DAMA co nferences and DAMA Chapters. She has 20 years of experience in project and data management on large\, multi-project programs. Karen specialize s in the practical application of data management principles. \;\n&# 13\;\nShe wants you to love your data. \;\n \;\nSchedule \;\n& #13\;\n \;\n8:30 - 9:00 am - Sign In \;\n \;\n \;\n9:00 - 1 0:15 am - Presentation \;\n \;\n \;\n10:15 - 10:30 am - Break\ , Chapter Announcements \;\n \;\n \;\n10:30 - 11:30 am - Presen tation continued \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\nFree for members! See w ebsite for our corporate members. \;\n$15 for guests to cover speaker travel costs and refreshments. \;\n \;\nThe Portland Metro Chapte r of the Data Administration Management Association has been serving the Portland data community since 1984. We are a not-for-profit\, vendor in dependent\, professional association dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices of enterprise information and data resource management.&# 13\;\n\n\nTags: data\, Data Modeling\, Karen Lopez\n\nImported from: htt p://calagator.org/events/1250469370 URL:http://www.damapdx.org/ SUMMARY:Love Your Data: Data Modeling Contentious Issues - Karen Lopez co ming to DAMA PDX LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151228T035342Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160121T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160121T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151228T035342Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20151228T040920Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250469540 DESCRIPTION:Greetings Fellow Lovers of Data- \;\n \;\nStart the yea r off learning about Data Mining. Join me at DAMA Portland's January ch apter meeting to learn how to frame Business Problems as Data Mining pro blems with Asoka Diggs\, a Data Scientist at Intel. \;\n \;\nThis will be a brief introduction to some of the important concepts that aris e in data mining in general and classification analysis in particular. T he focus in this presentation will be helping attendees to develop their ability to frame business problems as data mining problems\, to underst and some of the terminology and mental models prevalent in data mining\, and to being able to recognize situations where data mining might apply . \;\n \;\nThrough a demonstration driven presentation format\, at tendees will be exposed to a variety of data mining topics. Throughout t he demo\, attention will be paid to points of intersection with traditio nal data modeler work products including the data dictionary and dimensi onal data model. There will also be a variety of links and references fo r additional study on your own. \;\n \;\nParticular topics that wi ll be addressed: \;\n \;\nFormulating business problems as data mi ning problems \;\nSupervised Learning \;\nClassification methods i ncluding Decision Tree and Logistic Regression \;\nModel Validation&# 13\;\nNo math! \;\n \;\n \;\nSpeaker: \;\nAsoka Diggs is a D ata Scientist with Intel Corp. in Hillsboro\, OR. He has 15 years of exp erience in a variety of data management disciplines\, including database administration\, ER modeling\, ETL development\, and data architecture. He recently completed his MS Predictive Analytics from Northwestern Uni versity and is now a practicing Data Scientist. It turns out that there IS something even more fun than ER modeling\, and he now spends his wor k time practicing his new analytic modeling skills\, and teaching others how to participate and contribute to predictive analytic projects. \ ;\n \;\nRegister at: http://www.damapdx.org/ \;\n \;\nNOTE: DAM A Portland Chapter Meetings have moved to 3rd Thursday for 2016! \;\n \;\n \;\n8:30 - 9:00 am - Sign In \;\n9:00 - 10:15 am - Prese ntation \;\n10:15 - 10:30 am - Break\, Chapter Announcements \;\n 10:30 - 11:30 am - Presentation continued \;\n \;\n \;\nCost 3\;\n \;\nFree: DAMA PDX members and employees of Corporate Members&# 13\;\n$15 for guests to cover speaker costs and continental breakfast 3\;\n$5 for students with current student ID \;\nSee our corporate me mbers \;\n \;\n \;\nAbout DAMA Portland \;\nThe Portland Me tro Chapter of the Data Administration Management Association has been s erving the Portland data community since 1984. We are a not-for-profit\, vendor independent\, professional association dedicated to advancing th e concepts and practices of enterprise information and data resource man agement. \;\n \;\nOur primary purpose is to promote the understand ing\, development and practice of managing data\, information and knowle dge resources as key enterprise assets.\n\nTags: data mining\, data anal ysis\, DAMA\, portland\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/125 0469540 URL:http://www.damapdx.org/ SUMMARY:Framing Business Problems as Data Mining Problems - Portland DAMA Jan 21st LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:4 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160207T200415Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160218T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160218T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160207T200415Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160215T214252Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250469777 DESCRIPTION:There is now a second bonus data presentation at this month's Data Management chapter meeting. \;\nFirst\, Information Quality (IQ scoring) followed by an Introduction to storing time-series data in Rou nd Robin Databases. \;\nJoin us for now two presentations designed to make you more productive in your data career. \;\n \;\nFor more i nformation and to register\, visit damapdx.org \;\n \;\n Session 1 - Information Quality Scoring \;\nIQScoring is an assessment method ology CQN is using across the company to help communicate the IQ state o f key enterprise datasets and applications. It produces a simple metric that is easy to communicate to business stakeholders and management in a consistent way\, encouraging IQ conversations where frequently overlook ed or excluded. This technique can be a valuable tool in the hands of D ata Scientists\, Analysts\, and Business Decision-Makers. \;\n \;\ nAbout the Speaker \;\nRodney Schackmann joined Intel in 1993\, with time in IT and business groups\, he joined CQN in 2010 where he is curre ntly a Sr. Staff Information Architect. \;\n \;\nHe is a frequent presenter at Information / Data Quality and Data Governance related conf erences. His history includes software development\, management\, consul ting\, mentoring\, and strategic technical leadership. \;\n \;\nHi s time at Intel has primarily been focused on Key Information efforts — driving cross-organizational teams to better solutions with higher Infor mation Quality results. Rodney currently runs the enterprise-wide Inform ation Quality program for CQN. \;\n \;\n \;\n Session 2 - An In troduction to Round Robin Databases \;\nAs technology professionals\, we see a increasing applications for telemetry\, systems monitoring\, a nd real-time trend analysis. In some situations\, unbounded storage of c ollected measurements may be impractical or unnecessary. Round Robin Dat abases are designed to store and maintain multiple time-series archives at varying resolutions. They employ methods that allow the storage of mo nths or even years of data. \;\n \;\nWe will explore one such tool \, RRDtool\, a project started at the Center for Applied Internet Data A nalysis. At first\, this open source tool helped with collecting and rep orting on internet traffic. Since that time\, it has inspired many other uses and tools. Our goal is to explore the retention decisions\, downsa mpling of data consistent with it's business value\, and how this approa ch is good for solving a specific class of problems. \;\n \;\nAbou t the Speaker \;\nChris Irvine is currently a Technology Consultant a nd founder at Threeprong.com\, specializing in custom workgroup solution s\, B2B integration\, and performance tuning. He is a computer science g raduate of Portland State University with professional experience in sof tware development\, system administration\, and IT management. \;\n&# 13\;\nChris takes pleasure in applying technology to help solve problems for a variety of businesses and non-profits. Recent projects meet the n eeds of small business\, workgroups in large enterprise\, and also for g overnment\, in many segments and varied platforms. \;\n \;\nSchedu le \;\n \;\n8:30 - 9:00 am - Sign In \;\n9:00 - 10:15 am - Pre sentation \;\n10:15 - 10:30 am - Break\, Chapter Announcements \; \n10:30 - 11:30 am - Presentation continued \;\n \;\n \;\nOur c hapter meetings have a nominal cost to cover refreshments and speaker ex penses. \;\n \;\nFree for Members! \;\n$15 for Non-Members \ ;\n$5 for Students with valid student ID \;\nView the list of corpora te members at damapdx.org \;\n \;\n \;\nThe Portland Metro Cha pter 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 conce pts and practices of enterprise information and data resource management . \;\n \;\nOur primary purpose is to promote the understanding\, d evelopment and practice of managing data\, information and knowledge res ources as key enterprise assets. \;\n \;\nDAMA-Portland Metro memb ers and attendees enjoy the opportunity to hear industry leading profess ionals present on relevant topics and the most current technologies and methodologies of the day. \;\n \;\nPrior presentations and speaker s for this year (2016): \;\n \;\n \;\nJanuary: "\;Framing B usiness Problems as Data Mining Problems"\; with Asoka Diggs (Intel) \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\nUpcoming Presentation &\; Speakers fo r 2016: \;\n \;\nFebruary: "\;Information Quality (IQ Scoring) "\; with Rodney Schackmann (Intel) at The Standard \;\n March: & quot\;Advanced Data Visualization"\; with Michael Scofield (Loma Lin da University) at The Standard \;\n April: "\;The Vital Role Dat a Managers in E –Discovery and Information Governance"\; with Mike H amilton &\; Nancy Patton (Exterro) at Cambia/Regence \;\n May: &q uot\;Agile Development and Data Management"\; with Michele Goetz (Fo rrester Research) at The Standard \;\n\n\nTags: Data Quality\, Data Management\, DAMA\, portland\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/even ts/1250469777 URL:http://damapdx.org SUMMARY:Information Quality Scoring (IQ Scoring)\, Plus Round Robin Datab ases - DAMA Portland LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160229T024227Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160317T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160317T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160229T024227Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160229T024227Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250469885 DESCRIPTION:After a review of our previous meeting about the basics of Da ta Visualization (Dec. 2012) we will explore some of the more complex is sues of expressing complex business behavior in graphic form. You do no t need to have attended the basics presentation to get value from this a dvanced presentation. \;\n \;\nIncluded in this session are the fi ve basic chart types\, along with topics of normalization and the import ance of context. We will then look at more advanced concepts for the e xpression of metrics (such as cartograms\, step functions\, metrics whic h go negative\, non-linear scales\, and lineage charts). We will discus s the importance of understanding volatility in a metric\, and the expre ssion of uncertainty and ambiguity. \;\n \;\nRankings can be misle ading\; we will show how. Tree maps are useful\, but heat maps can be d angerous. We may look at using scatter diagrams to evaluate the correl ation of market indexes. If we have time\, we will look at the expressi on of non-metric ideas\, including VENN diagrams. \;\n \;\nAbout t he Speaker \;\nMichael Scofield\, M.B.A. is an Asst. Professor of Hea lth Informatics at Loma Linda University. His experience includes bank ing\, manufacturing\, higher education\, and software development. For the past 17 years he has spoken widely to professional audiences around the U.S.\, Canada\, and Australia and the U.K. on topics of data manage ment\, data visualization\, data quality assessment\, and data acquisiti on. \;\n \;\nMichael has spoken several times for the Portland DAM A chapter\, and before 23 other DAMA chapters around the country. He ha s numerous articles published on these same topics\, particularly on dat a quality assessment. \;\n \;\n Schedule \;\n \;\n8:30 - 9: 00 am - Sign In \;\n9:00 - 10:15 am - Presentation \;\n10:15 - 10 :30 am - Break\, Chapter Announcements \;\n10:30 - 11:30 am - Present ation continued \;\n \;\n \;\nCost \;\n \;\nCovers refres hments and speaker travel costs. \;\nFree for Members and Employees of corporate members! \;\n$15 for Non-Members \;\n$5 for Students with valid student ID \;\nSee our corporate members list at damapdx.o rg \;\n \;\n \;\nAbout DAMA Portland \;\nThe Portland Metro Chapter of the Data Administration Management Association has served th e Portland data community since 1984. \;\n \;\nWe are a not-for- profit\, vendor independent\, professional association dedicated to adva ncing the concepts and practices of enterprise information and data reso urce management. Our primary purpose is to promote the understanding\, development and practice of managing data\, information and knowledge re sources as key enterprise assets. \;\n \;\nUpcoming Chapter Meetin gs \;\n \;\nApril: "\;The Vital Role Data Managers in E –Disco very and Information Governance"\; \;\nwith Mike Hamilton &\; Nancy Patton (Exterro) at Cambia/Regence \;\nMay: "\;Agile Devel opment and Data Management"\; with Michele Goetz (Forrester Research ) at The Standard \;\n\n\nTags: data\; data visualization\; dama\n\nI mported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250469885 URL:http://www.damapdx.org/ SUMMARY:Learn about Advanced Data Visualization - Data Management PDX Mar ch Chapter Meeting LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160515T234007Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160519T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160519T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160515T234007Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160515T234007Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250470273 DESCRIPTION:Greetings Fellow Lovers of Data! If you hit only one DAMA PD X event this year\, this is the one. We scored this month hooking Miche le Goetz from Forrester research in Boston on the topic of Agile Develop ment and Data \;\nManagement. \;\n \;\nDETAILS \;\nAgile de velopment for enterprise applications alone is of little use without acc ompanying data management support. This pressures data management and ar chitecture to deliver data services on Agile application development tim etables. They need to adopt Agile development practices themselves or ri sk greater data chaos through a system of data silos\, inconsistent insi ghts\, and inconsistent views of the customer. \;\n \;\nThis disc ussion will identify: \;\n \;\nHow agile development will cause a reset in the way data services are developed and rendered \;\nHow to align agile development in DevOps with data architecture \;\nWhere yo u can get started \;\nWhat good agile practices look like and deliver \;\n \;\n \;\nFor more information and to register\, go to: ht tp://www.damapdx.org/ \;\n \;\nSchedule: \;\n• 8:30 - 9:00 am - Sign In \;\n• 9:00 - 10:15 am - Presentation \;\n• 10:15 - 10: 30 am - Break\, Chapter Announcements \;\n• 10:30 - 11:30 am - Presen tation continued \;\n \;\nIs your organization a corporate member of DAMA PDX? This presentation is free for you! \;\nOtherwise Cost is $5 for students with valid ID to cover speaker costs and refreshments . \;\nor $15 for the general public. \;\n \;\n \;\nAbout Our Speaker: \;\nMichele serves enterprise and data architecture profess ionals. She is a leading expert on data management\, artificial intellig ence\, data governance\, master data management\, and data quality. Mich ele helps enterprises leverage data assets more effectively by improving the availability and accuracy of the information that businesses use in processes and analytics. \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\ nAbout DAMA Portland: \;\nThe Portland Metro Chapter of the Data Adm inistration Management Association has been serving the Portland data co mmunity since 1984. We are a not-for-profit\, vendor independent\, profe ssional association dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices of enterprise information and data resource management. \;\n \;\nTh e DAMA Portland Chapter is dedicated to delivering thought provoking dat a-centric presentations that will make you more successful in your job. Our primary purpose is to promote the understanding\, development and p ractice of managing data\, information and knowledge resources as key en terprise assets. \;\n\n\nTags: data\; agile\; Forrester\; DAMA\n\nIm ported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250470273 URL:http://damapdx.org SUMMARY:Agile Development and Data Management - Forrester Research coming to DAMA PDX May 19th LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161003T000840Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161020T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161020T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161003T000840Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161003T000840Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250470903 DESCRIPTION:Due to scheduling conflicts\, this month's DAMA chapter meeti ng has been cancelled \;\n We will reschedule Mary for a later time. \;\nCheck out our Upcoming Presentations \;\n \;\nNovember: &q uot\;The T-Shaped Data Professional – Achieving Data Management Goals by Other Means"\; \;\nwith Alec Sharp (Clariteq Systems Consulting) \;\nJanuary 2017: "\;Advanced Data Visualization"\; with Ami t P. Manghani \;\n \;\n \;\n----------------------------------- ------------------------ \;\n \;\nThe DAMA Portland Chapter is ded icated to delivering thought provoking data-centric presentations that w ill make you more successful in your job. Please join me\, the rest of the DAMA board\, and other fellow lovers of data on October 20th at our regular chapter meeting in downtown Portland. For more information and t o register go to: http://www.damapdx.org/ \;\n \;\nMary Loomas fro m Intel will be presenting \;\nBusiness Partnering: Providing busines s partnership and influence to maximize profitability. \;\n \;\nTo pics include\, but are not limited to: \;\n \;\n \;\nGetting a seat at the table – adding value to your business partner \;\nHow to use internal and external acumen to influence your business \;\nBala ncing breadth of knowledge with depth of knowledge \;\nRotation progr ams to provide perspective and growth \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\nAbo ut our speaker \;\n \;\n \;\nMary Loomas leads Intel’s Global R evenue team responsible for revenue forecasting\, accounting\, and risk management. Prior to this role\, Loomas led a financial planning transf ormation and system implementation program for Intel. Loomas started at Intel in 1994 and has held many finance &\; IT roles\, including Fin ance Information Systems Director\, SAP G/L Implementation Program\, Cor porate Marketing Controller\, Cost Manager\, and Technology Development Finance Manager. Loomas left Intel in 2004 and started her own artisan chocolate company in 2005. Mary returned to Intel in 2011 to run the Fi nancial Planning transformation. Mary has a BA in Management Science fr om UC San Diego and an MBA in Finance from LMU. Mary has 2 boys\, 12 and 15. Outside of work\, Mary enjoys road trips with her kids\, tennis\, cycling running\, and wine tasting. \;\n \;\nIntel is the world's largest semiconductor chip maker\, based on revenue ($55B in 2015). The company develops advanced integrated digital technology products\, prima rily integrated circuits\, for industries such as computing and communic ations. Intel has over 100\,000 employees worldwide. \;\n \;\n \;\nSchedule \;\n \;\n8:30 - 9:00 am - Sign In \;\n9:00 - 10:1 5 am - Presentation \;\n10:15 - 10:30 am - Break\, Chapter Announcem ents \;\n10:30 - 11:30 am - Presentation continued \;\n \;\n&# 13\;\n \;\nCost \;\n \;\nCosts cover continental breakfast and speaker expenses \;\n \;\nFree for Members! \;\n$15 for Non-Mem bers \;\n$5 for Students with valid student ID \;\nSee our corpora te members at damapdx.org \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\nAbout DAMA Por tland \;\n \;\n \;\nThe Portland Metro Chapter of the Data Adm inistration Management Association has been serving the Portland data co mmunity since 1984. We are a not-for-profit\, vendor independent\, profe ssional association dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices of enterprise information and data resource management. \;\n \;\nOur primary purpose is to promote the understanding\, development and pract ice of managing data\, information and knowledge resources as key enterp rise assets. \;\n \;\nUpcoming Presentations \;\n \;\nNovem ber: "\;The T-Shaped Data Professional – Achieving Data Management G oals by Other Means"\; \;\nwith Alec Sharp (Clariteq Systems Cons ulting) \;\nJanuary 2017: "\;Advanced Data Visualization"\; w ith Amit P. Manghani \;\n \;\n\n\nTags: data\, finance\, DAMA\n\nI mported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250470903 URL:http://damapdx.org SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Business Partnering: Providing business partnership an d influence to maximize profitability - Portland Data Management User Gr oup LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161030T223945Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161117T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161117T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161030T223945Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20161030T223945Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250471033 DESCRIPTION: \;\nThis presentation is an expanded and updated version of “The Multi-Skilled Influencer”\, \;\nthe highest-rated session at the 2015 Enterprise Data &\; BI Conference in London. \;\nIt was also the keynote at the recent Higher Education Data Warehousing confere nce in Rochester\, NY. \;\n \;\n \;\nOrganizations increasingly value individuals who have deep expertise in a specific discipline\, su ch as Data Modeling\, but who also possess skills in other areas. This i s the so-called “T-shaped skill set” – depth plus breadth. \;\n \; \nBecoming “T-shaped” is a goal for anyone in Data – not only does it ma ke you more valuable to your organization\, experience shows applying sk ills not usually associated with Data Management are an excellent way to meet data goals. \;\n \;\nAfter introducing the core ideas behind being “T-shaped”\, including the two essential soft skills\, we'll look at a variety of real-life examples where Data Management goals have bee n achieved by applying other skills. In addition to showing how applying these techniques has supported our goals\, we'll provide useful tips an d frameworks for each of them\, with emphasis on four in particular: \;\n \;\n \;\nBusiness Process Change: Business processes work on "\;things"\; (a Part\, a Product\, an Issue\, etc.) which typica lly move through the process as data\; we'll look at techniques to make the "\;data"\; perspective valuable\; \;\n \;\n \;\n 3\;\n \;\nApplication Requirements: Use Cases and User Stories are we ll known techniques many Business Analysts struggle with\; we'll look at a data model-based approach that overcomes some usual difficulties\, an d is especially popular in Agile settings\; \;\n \;\n \;\n \ ;\n \;\nGeneral Business Frameworks: Frameworks such as the four quad rants of corporate culture\, the impact of paradigms\, the enablers of o rganizational change\, and the strategic differentiator have all contrib uted\, often in surprising ways\, to achieving Data Management goals\;&# 13\;\n \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\nFacilitation: Questions that are s tandard practice for facilitators ("\;What do you mean by...?"\; ) can surface familiar data management issues of consistency and communi cation\, particularly with senior management teams. \;\n \;\n \ ;\n \;\n \;\nNOTE: We are also having our annual board elections a t this chapter meeting. As a volunteer run organization\, we cannot run without participation by our local data community. We welcome interest in helping run the Portland area DAMA chapter. If you are interested i n a board position\, please check out the position descriptions at damap dx.org and/or contact the board@damapdx.org. \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\nSCHEDULE \;\n \;\n830-900: Sign In and refreshments \;\n900 -1015: Presentation \;\n1015-1030: Break\, Job and Chapter Announceme nts \;\n1030-1130: Presentation continued \;\n \;\n \;\nREGI STRATION \;\n \;\nPlease register at damapdx.org so we order enoug h food \;\nCosts covers refreshments and speaker travel costs. \; \nFree for Members and Employees of corporate members! \;\nStudents w ith valid student ID: $5 / Non-Members: $15 \;\nSee our corporate mem bers list at damapdx.org \;\n \;\n \;\nAbout DAMA Portland \;\n \;\nThe Portland Metro Chapter of the Data Administration Manage ment Association has been serving the Portland data community since 1984 . \;\n We are a not-for-profit\, vendor independent\, professional as sociation dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices of enterpris e information and data resource management. \;\n Our Mission: Deliver thought provoking data-centric presentations to make you more successfu l in your job. \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\nUpcoming DAMA PDX Metro E vent January 2017: "\;Advanced Data Visualization"\; \;\n \;\n\n\nTags: DAMA\, data\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/eve nts/1250471033 URL:http://damapdx.org SUMMARY:The T-Shaped Data Professional - Achieving Data Management Goals with Real Life Examples - DAMA PDX November LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170103T044038Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170119T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170119T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170103T044038Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170103T044038Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250471258 DESCRIPTION:The world produces more than 2.5 exabytes of data every day. There is just too much information out there and traditional reports usi ng tabs\, rows and columns do not paint the whole picture any longer. 3\;\n \;\nVisualization is one key approach to gaining insight from t his mountain of data. Advanced Visualizations Platforms have enabled the use of more dynamic and interactive business graphics\, such as real-ti me 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 vi sualizations tools to explore\, understand and communicate insights\, al ong with the actions that need to be taken. \;\n \;\nIn this sessi on\, we will explore how advanced visualization tools are being utilized in the era of big data to draw valuable business insights and we will a lso delve into some of the predominant data visualization tools being us ed by Data Scientists. \;\n \;\nSpeaker \;\nAmit P. Manghani\, M.S.\, MBA\, has more than a decade of experience in the Information Tec hnology domain dealing with Enterprise Information Management\, Business Intelligence\, Web Applications and Cloud Computing technologies at lea ding Information Management companies such as Oracle\, Informatica and S AP. Prior to joining Oracle\, Amit was focused on utilizing the power of emerging data integration technologies encompassing real-time data acqu isition/ movement\, event processing and agile data access within Big Da ta usage scenarios. Now as Senior Director of Product Management at Orac le\, he is responsible for enabling partners globally on the different f acets of Oracle Sales Cloud ranging from Analytics to Mobile to Sales Pr ediction capabilities. He is an avid follower of technology trends and h as published articles in leading online journals and has presented at se veral technology conferences. \;\n \;\nSchedule \;\n \;\n 8: 30 - 9:00 am - Sign In \;\n \;\n 9:00 - 10:15 am - Presentation & #13\;\n \;\n 10:15 - 10:30 am - Break\, Chapter Announcements \;\n \;\n 10:30 - 11:30 am - Presentation continued \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\nFree for Members and employees of our Corporate Memb ers \;\n \;\nThere is a nominal charge for non-members to cover re freshments and speaker travel costs \;\n \;\n$5 for Students with valid student ID / $15 for General public \;\n \;\nSee the list of DAMA PDX corporate members at damapdx.org \;\n \;\n \;\n \ ;\nAbout DAMA PDX \;\nThe Portland Metro Chapter of the Data Administ ration Management Association has been serving our Portland data communi ty since 1984. We are a not-for-profit\, vendor independent\, professio nal association dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices of ent erprise information and data resource management. Our Mission: Deliver thought provoking data-centric presentations to make you more successful in your job. \;\n\n\nTags: data visualization\, data\, DAMA\n\nImpor ted from: http://calagator.org/events/1250471258 URL:http://damapdx.org SUMMARY:Advanced Data Visualization - DAMA PDX LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170129T050610Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170216T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170216T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170129T050610Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170208T013859Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250471390 DESCRIPTION:Greetings Portland Lovers of Data\, join your local Data User Group downtown on Thursday Feb 16th to learn about “Agile Data Warehous ing\, Building a Virtualized ODS” with Kent Graziano\, Senior Technical Evangelist with Snowflake Computing and the author of The Data Warrior b log. \;\n \;\nThis is our usual monthly Portland Data Management U ser Group Chapter meeting. \;\n \;\nFor more information and to r egister go to: http://www.damapdx.org/ or our new meetup page at: https: //www.meetup.com/PDX-Data-Engineering/events/237139605/. Please registe r at one of those sites\, so that we have a count for our usual continen tal breakfast. Walk-ins are welcome. \;\n \;\nPresentation Summar y \;\nIn order to meet timelines to fulfill urgent\, unmet reporting needs\, we built a virtualized Operational Data Store (ODS). This allowe d us to deliver new objects\, quickly and incrementally\, so we could qu ickly show the business users their data. In order to limit the need for refactoring in later stages of the data warehouse development\, we chos e to build this virtualization layer on top of a Type 2 persistent stagi ng layer. All of this was done using the free Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler (SDDM) against a MS SQL Server Database. \;\n \;\nIn this talk\, we will show you the architecture for this approach\, the rationa le\, and then some of the tricks used in SDDM to build all the stage tab les and views very quickly. In the end you will see actual SQL code for the virtual ODS that you can leverage for your own projects. \;\n \;\nGoals \;\n \;\n• Learn what a Virtual ODS is and how it can he lp you be Agile \;\n \;\n• Learn a data warehouse architecture tha t can be implemented incrementally and in layers \;\n \;\n• How to quickly build pattern based stage tables in SDDM \;\n \;\n• How t o build complex\, pattern based views in SDDM \;\n \;\n• Tips on h ow to use analytic functions to create virtual columns \;\n \;\n• See examples of how to embed change data capture into a view-based ELT l oading architecture \;\n \;\nSpeaker \;\nKent Graziano is a Sen ior Technical Evangelist with Snowflake Computing and the author of The Data Warrior blog (https://kentgraziano.com/). He is a certified Data Va ult Master (CDVP2)\, Oracle ACE Director\, former member of the Boulder BI Brain Trust (#BBBT)\, expert data modeler and architect with over 30 years of experience\, including 25 years doing data warehousing with mul tiple architectures. \;\n \;\nKent is an award winning speaker and author having written numerous articles\, and has given hundreds of pre sentations\, nationally and internationally. He is a co-author of four b ooks including The Data Model Resource Book (1st Edition)\, and Supercha rge Your Data Warehouse. His now has several ebooks on Kindle including A Check List for Doing a Data Model Design Reviews and An Introduction t o Agile Data Engineering. You can follow Kent on his blog and twitter @k entgraziano. \;\n \;\nSchedule \;\n8:30 - 9:00 am - Sign In  3\;\n9:00 - 10:15 am - Presentation \;\n10:15 - 10:30 am - Break\, C hapter Announcements \;\n10:30 - 11:30 am - Presentation continued & #13\;\nFree for Members and employees of our Corporate Members \;\n&# 13\;\nThere is a nominal charge for non-members to cover refreshments an d speaker travel costs: $5 for Students with valid student ID / $15 for General public. See the list of DAMA PDX corporate members at damapdx.o rg \;\n \;\nAbout DAMA PDX \;\nThe Portland Metro Chapter of t he Data Administration Management Association has been serving our Portl and data community since 1984. We are a not-for-profit\, vendor independ ent\, professional association dedicated to advancing the concepts and p ractices of enterprise information and data resource management. \;\n \;\nOur Mission: Deliver thought provoking data-centric presentation s to make you more successful in your job. \;\n\n\nTags: Agile Data W arehousing\, data\, portland\, ODS\, Graziano\n\nImported from: http://c alagator.org/events/1250471390 URL:https://www.meetup.com/PDX-Data-Engineering/events/237139605/ SUMMARY:Agile Data Warehousing\, Building a Virtualized ODS” with Kent Gr aziano - DAMA PDX LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:5 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170311T045604Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170316T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170316T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170311T045604Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170311T045604Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250471591 DESCRIPTION:DAMAPDX March Chapter Meeting \;\n \;\nPresented by: Dr . Bob Nisbet\, Predictive Analytics Certificate Program\, University of California \;\n \;\nThe rise of Predictive Analytics in business w ill generate many opportunities for data managers. The Business Ecosyste m has arrived\, and Predictive Analytics models are the “windows” into u nderstanding its operational complexity. The Operational Data Store (ODS ) is an elaboration of data warehousing design to serve the needs of bus iness data users better (cf. Kent Graziano’s talk). The Analytical Data Mart (ADM) serves an analogous purpose to serve the needs of predictive analytics. Differences between the organization of data in an EDW or ODS and that needed to serve analytics efficiently are discussed. The discu ssion will include some specific data transforms required by analytical algorithms\, and how the “heavy lifting” of their processing can be comm itted to data mart operations. An example of the blending of an ODS and an ADM to serve predictive analytics modeling operations in a Santa Bar bara bank will be presented. \;\n \;\nRegistration (RSVP Required ) \;\nRegister at: http://damapdx.org/index.php?option=com_seminar.&# 13\;\n \;\n• Free for chapter members or employees of corporate membe rs. \;\n• $15 for Non-Members \;\n• $5 for Students with valid s tudent ID \;\n \;\n• Costs help cover refreshments and speaker tra vel costs \;\n• See damapdx.org for the list of Corporate Members \;\n \;\nSpeaker \;\n \;\nFor the last 20 years of his career\, Bob was active as a Data Scientist\, initially for AT&\;T\, then for NCR Corporation (after the split in 1996). He led the Yield Management analytical team at NCR Corporation which pioneered the design and develo pment of configurable data mining applications for retail sales forecast ing\, and Churn\, Propensity-to-buy\, and Customer Acquisition in Teleco mmunications\, Insurance\, Banking\, Credit\, membership organizations ( e.g. AAA)\, and Health Care industries. He is lead author of the award-w inning “Handbook of Statistical Analysis &\; Data Mining Applications ” (Academic Press\, 2009)\, and a co-author and general editor of the aw ard-winning "\;Practical Text Mining"\; (Academic Press\, 2012) and “Practical Predictive Analytics and Decisioning Systems in Medicine” (Academic Press\, 2015). He serves as an Instructor in the University of California at Irvine Predictive Analytics Certificate Program\, teach ing many online and on-campus courses each year in Effective Data Prepar ation\, and co-teaching Introduction to Predictive Analytics. He serves also as a technical advisor of the Predictive Analytics Certificate Pro gram at UC-Irvine\, as a Technical Editor of the Practical Predictive An alytics series of books by Cambridge University Press. \;\n \;\n&# 13\;\nAbout DAMA Portland \;\n \;\nThe Portland Metro Chapter of the Data Administration Management Association has been serving the Port land data community since 1984. We are a not-for-profit\, vendor indepen dent\, professional association dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices of enterprise information and data resource management. \;\ n \;\nOur primary purpose is to promote the understanding\, developme nt and practice of managing data\, information and knowledge resources a s key enterprise assets. \;\n \;\nThe DAMA Portland Chapter is de dicated to delivering thought provoking data-centric presentations that will make you more successful in your job. Please join us\, the rest of the DAMA board\, and other fellow lovers of data at this regular chapte r meeting in downtown Portland. \;\n\n\nTags: DAMA\, predictive analy tics\, Data Mart\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/125047159 1 URL:https://www.meetup.com/PDX-Data-Engineering/events/237914740/ SUMMARY:The Analytical Data Mart (and The Customer Analytic Record to Ser ve Predictive Analytics) @DAMAPDX LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170402T050021Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170420T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170420T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170402T050021Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170412T034040Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250471737 DESCRIPTION:Presented by David Howell \;\nCEO of Avatron \;\n \; \nIn 2013\, the “Summer of Snowden” heightened awareness among businesse s and individuals of the insecurity of data stored in the cloud. Despite that\, people still routinely use Google Docs\, whose corporate owner p romises to sell private data to its customers\, the advertisers. People still store sensitive data in the cloud\, where data breaches are virtua lly inevitable. Avatron launched Air Connect\, an alternative approach t o allowing access of personal data from anywhere. Like Skype\, Air Conne ct employs UDP tunneling to forge a direct connection to a remote comput er\, even if it is behind a stringent firewall or on a dynamic IP addres s. \;\nWe’ll walk through the architecture of Air Connect\, discussin g design decisions made along the way. We’ll talk through the joys and w oes of launching a geeky networking software service on Kickstarter. And we’ll talk about the ultimate demise of the Air Connect service. \;\ n \;\nSpeaker \;\nDave Howell is CEO of Avatron\, a popular mobile app developer. Avatron’s apps include Air Sharing\, the first iPhone ap p that allowed management\, viewing\, and printing of local and remote d ocuments\, Air Connect\, which lets people connect directly and securely to a personal computer without sending data through the cloud\, and Air Display\, which turns a tablet into a computer monitor. Before founding Avatron in 2008\, Dave was a senior software manager at Apple\, where h e contributed to productivity software and professional applications. Da ve joined Apple when the computer company bought the assets of his previ ous company\, Pablo Media. When he’s not leading software teams\, Dave p lays piano in a jazz quartet in Portland. On Twitter\, you can follow Da ve at @dshowell or Avatron at @avatron. \;\n \;\nSchedule \;\n8 :30 – 9:00 am – Sign In \;\n9:00 – 10:15 am – Presentation \;\n1 0:15 – 10:30 am – Break\, Chapter Announcements \;\n10:30 – 11:30 am – Presentation continued \;\n \;\nLocation \;\nStandard Insur ance Center in the Atrium room\, 900 SW 5th Avenue in Portland. Make sur e you go to the Standard Insurance tower on 900 SW 5th Ave as there are two Standard locations in downtown Portland. \;\nThe room is located at the top of the south elevator bank (as you enter from the 5th street sidewalk\, continue to the right past the elevators and up the escalator s\, then through the double glass doors into a new window-ed space). \;\n \;\nCost \;\nCosts cover continental breakfast and speaker tr avel costs \;\nFree for Members! \;\n$15 for Non-Members \;\ n$5 for Students with valid student ID \;\nSee our corporate member s at damapdx.org \;\n \;\nAbout DAMA Portland \;\nThe 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 m anagement. \;\n \;\nOur primary purpose is to promote the underst anding\, development and practice of managing data\, information and kno wledge resources as key enterprise assets. \;\n \;\nThe DAMA Por tland Chapter is dedicated to delivering thought provoking data-centric presentations that will make you more successful in your job. \;\n 3\;\nComing Presentations \;\nApril (20-Apr) Cloud Document Storage \;\nMay (18-May) Big Data mining and Deep Learning \;\nJu ne (15-Jun) Master Data Management \;\nJuly (20-Jul) Data Sci ence: Predictive Analytics \;\nSept (21-Sep) Cartographic lice nse and building maps that work \;\nOct DAMA Day\n\nTags: data\, c loud\, DAMA\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250471737 URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/damapdx-april-chapter-meeting-cloud-docu ment-storage-tickets-33084511665 SUMMARY:Cloud Document Storage @DAMAPDX LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170429T035540Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170518T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170518T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170429T035540Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170429T035540Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250471854 DESCRIPTION:Dr. Dejing Dou leads the Advanced Integration and Mining (AIM ) Lab at the University of Oregon. \;\n \;\nIn this talk\, we focu s on the use of formal (Semantic Web) ontologies in two data mining and deep learning tasks\, using health datasets as the data domain. We will show how Semantic association mining allowed discovery of indirect (hid den) associations within the datasets (in this case\, among diseases and drugs within electronic health records). We will also show how Ontolog y-based deep learning was used to predict human physical activities with in a health social network. \;\n \;\nFor more information and to r egister: https://damapdx.wordpress.com/2017/04/20/may-2017-semantic-data -mining-deep-learning-in-health-datasets/ \;\n \;\nSchedule \;\ n8:30 – 9:00 am – Sign In \;\n9:00 – 10:15 am – Presentation \;\ n10:15 – 10:30 am – Break\, Chapter Announcements \;\n10:30 – 11:30 am – Presentation continued \;\n \;\nCost \;\nCosts cover conti nental breakfast and speaker travel costs \;\n- Free for Members (an d employees of corporate members) \;\n- $15 for Non-Members \;\n- $5 for Students with valid student ID \;\nSee our corporate members at the link above \;\n \;\nAbout DAMA Portland \;\nThe Portla nd Metro Chapter of the Data Administration Management Association has b een serving the Portland data community since 1984. We are a not-for-pro fit\, vendor independent\, professional association dedicated to advanci ng the concepts and practices of enterprise information and data resourc e management. \;\n \;\nOur primary purpose is to promote the unde rstanding\, development and practice of managing data\, information and knowledge resources as key enterprise assets. \;\n \;\nThe DAMA Portland Chapter is dedicated to delivering thought provoking data-centr ic presentations that will make you more successful in your job. Please join me\, the rest of the DAMA board\, and other fellow lovers of data at this regular chapter meeting in downtown Portland. For more informati on and to register go to: http://www.damapdx.org/ \;\n \;\nUpcomin g Presentations \;\nJune (15-Jun) Master Data Management \;\nJ uly ( 20-Jul) Data Science: Predictive Analytics \;\nSept (21-Sep ) Cartographic license and building maps that work \;\nOct (TBD) DAMA Day (Our annual\, full day of data training) \;\n \;\nThanks for your support of local Data Education\, we look forward to seeing yo u there! \;\n \;\n\n\nTags: data mining\, DAMA\, Deep Learning\n\n Imported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250471854 URL:https://damapdx.wordpress.com/2017/04/20/may-2017-semantic-data-minin g-deep-learning-in-health-datasets/ SUMMARY:Semantic Data Mining and Deep Learning Datasets @DAMAPDX LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:2 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170617T035503Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170720T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170720T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170617T035503Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180809T185211Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250472095 DESCRIPTION:Most of what data scientists do is nothing new\, and much of what’s new is really a throwback to what we used to do 20 years ago. So why data science so popular now? \;\n \;\nIn this talk\, Dean will describe what differentiates data science from related fields like Busi ness Intelligence\, Predictive Analytics\, and Statistics\, and will ill ustrate the use of data science from case studies in customer analytics and fraud detection. \;\n \;\nPlease register so we have an accura te count for refreshments at:: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/damapdx-rsvp -data-science-predictive-analytics-tickets-35435217690 \;\n \;\nSp eaker \;\nDean Abbott is Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist of Smart erHQ and is based in San Diego\, California. Mr. Abbott is an internatio nally recognized data mining and predictive analytics expert with over t wo decades of experience applying advanced algorithms to real-world prob lems\, including customer analytics\, fraud detection\, risk modeling\, text mining\, personality assessment\, and more. He was named as a Mar T ech Superstar by Adweek\, one of 26 trailblazers revolutionizing marketi ng technology. Mr. Abbott is the author of Applied Predictive Analytics (Wiley\, 2014) and co-author of IBM SPSS Modeler Cookbook (Packt Publish ing\, 2013) and is a highly-regarded and popular keynote speaker at Adva nced Analytics and Data Science conferences and meetups\, is on the Advi sory Boards for the UC/Irvine Predictive Analytics and the UCSD Data Sci ence Certificate programs. \;\n \;\n \;\nAbout DAMA Portland &# 13\;\nThe Portland Metro Chapter of the Data Administration Management A ssociation has been serving the Portland data community since 1984. We a re a not-for-profit\, vendor independent\, professional association dedi cated to advancing the concepts and practices of enterprise information and data resource management. \;\n \;\nOur primary purpose is to p romote the understanding\, development and practice of managing data\, i nformation and knowledge resources as key enterprise assets. \;\n 3\;\nThe DAMA Portland Chapter is dedicated to delivering thought provok ing data-centric presentations that will make you more successful in you r job. Please join me\, the rest of the DAMA board\, and other fellow lo vers of data at this regular chapter meeting in downtown Portland. \; \n \;\nThanks for your support of local Data Education\, we look forw ard to seeing you there!\n\nTags: data science\, Predictive Analytics\; DAMA\; Portland\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250472095 URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/damapdx-rsvp-data-science-predictive-ana lytics-tickets-35435217690 SUMMARY:Data Science: Predictive Analytics @DAMAPDX LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:4 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170813T221140Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170921T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170921T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170813T221140Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20170813T232609Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250472374 DESCRIPTION:DAMA welcomes Sarah Battersby\, Senior Research Scientist at Tableau Software to Portland on Thursday\, September 21st. \;\n She will be presenting "\;Cartograpghic Licence and Building Maps That W ork"\;. \;\n \;\nAlso Included: Continental Breakfast and Netw orking with other Data Professionals! \;\n \;\nRegistration at: h ttps://damapdx.wordpress.com/2017/07/25/september-2017-cartographic-lice nse-and-building-maps-that-work/ \;\n \;\n \;\nWe live in a dat a rich world and many of the data that we encounter have a geographic li nk\, such as a point coordinate\, an address\, a state\, or country name . Maps are a key part of understanding geographically linked data and u tilizing it in decision making. In designing maps\, virtually anyone wi th a computer and an internet connection can be a cartographer – regardl ess of knowledge of principles of spatial data or visual and cartographi c communication best practices. The good news about this democratizatio n of cartography is that everyone is empowered to explore their own data with maps. The bad news is that anyone can make a map. While many map authoring tools help guide the design\, it is still easy to unintention ally (or occasionally intentionally) mislead readers. The variant of th e truth that we find in maps is largely driven by choices that the carto grapher makes in the data collection\, cleaning\, analysis\, and visuali zation process. In this presentation I consider issues of how the map d esigner and reader perceive mapped data and where “noise” can creep into the communication to distort the intended message. \;\n \;\nThrou gh the presentation\, we will explore a number of data and visualization challenges that citizen (and professional) cartographers wrestle with e very day. Fortunately some of the big challenges in cartography have so lutions – if you know where to look. Unfortunately\, some also fall in the damned-if-you-do\, damned-if-you-don’t category – but you had better have the critical understanding skills needed to consider the implicati ons either way. No map is perfect\, but some are much better than other s. In this talk we will look at good and bad examples\, the problems an d solutions\, and discuss about pathways to success and enlightenment th rough better mapping. Or\, at least we can just try to learn to stop wo rrying and love maps. \;\n \;\nThe presentation will be colored wi th a psycho-geographic perspective garnered from way too many years teac hing cartography and GIS fundamentals to unsuspecting college youths\, a nd my more recent years at a software company designing a product to hel p people make better decisions without requiring years of cartographic s tudy. \;\n \;\nAbout the Speaker: \;\n \;\nSarah Battersby i s a research scientist at Tableau Software. Her primary area of focus is cartography\, with an emphasis on cognition. Her work emphasizes how we can help people visualize and use spatial information more effectively. Her research has covered a variety of areas\, including perception in d ynamic map displays\, geospatial technologies and spatial thinking abili ties\, and the impact of map projection on spatial cognition. She works closely with the maps development team. \;\n \;\nSarah earned her PhD in Geography in 2006 from the University of California at Santa Barb ara. She is a member of the International Cartographic Association Commi ssion on Map Projections\, and is a Past President (2015 – 2016) of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society – a society composed of e ducators\, researchers and practitioners involved in the design\, creati on\, use and dissemination of geographic information. \;\n \;\nSar ah is a member of the National Geospatial Advisory Committee\, a Federal Advisory Committee sponsored by the Department of the Interior under th e Federal Advisory Committee Act. \;\n \;\nAbout DAMA Portland \;\n \;\nThe Portland Metro Chapter of the Data Administration Manage ment Association has been serving the Portland data community since 1984 . We are a not-for-profit\, vendor independent\, professional associatio n dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices of enterprise inform ation and data resource management. \;\n \;\nOur primary purpose i s to promote the understanding\, development and practice of managing da ta\, information and knowledge resources as key enterprise assets. \; \n \;\nThe DAMA Portland Chapter is dedicated to delivering thought p rovoking data-centric presentations that will make you more successful i n your job. Please join me\, the rest of the DAMA board\, and other fell ow lovers of data at this regular chapter meeting in downtown Portland.& #13\;\n \;\nThanks for your support of local Data Education\, we look forward to seeing you there!\n\nTags: Tableau\, gis\, maps\, DAMA\, dat a\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250472374 URL:https://damapdx.wordpress.com/2017/07/25/september-2017-cartographic- license-and-building-maps-that-work/ SUMMARY:Building Maps That Work - with Sarah from Tableau LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:4 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180122T001539Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180215T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180215T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180122T001539Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180122T001539Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250473139 DESCRIPTION:Join your fellow Portland Lovers of data for a morning of dat a education and networking at our usual 3rd Thursday (February 15th) cha pter meeting at the Standard Insurance classrooms in downtown Portland. Mark Wheeler from PSU will talk about Business Applications of Blockcha in Technology. \;\n \;\nAttendance is free for DAMA Members and Em ployees of Corporate Members. Students $5 with ID\; $15 others. You ca n walk in\; we appreciate your registering so we order enough refreshmen ts. \;\n \;\n \;\nOverview - Business Applications of Blockchai n Technology \;\nPresented by Mark Wheeler\, Portland State Universi ty \;\n \;\nBlockchain technology is being talked about as one of the next big innovations to take hold across multiple industries. Busine sses who focus on transactions\, contracts\, and assets management are j ust a few of the initial sectors of the economy which will be disrupted. As the underlying technology begins to take hold\, time-consuming and l abor-intensive functions will be replaced by automated and “always on” s mart processes. Centralized models of trust and authenticity will be rep laced by decentralized services and crowd-based consensus algorithms. 3\;\n \;\nThere will not be one blockchain but millions\, each built on an application-specific architectures. Any store of information that requires exchange or validation across indirectly related entities will reside on a blockchain. Blockchains are safe\, secure\, and immutable — but all blockchains are not created equal. We will explore the subject by examining several current generations of blockchain implementations.& #13\;\n \;\nTopics during this session include: \;\n \;\n \; \nArchitecture\, Protocols\, Algorithms \;\n \;\n \;\nDistribut ed Ledgers\, Smart Contracts \;\n \;\n \;\nTrust / Consensus Sy stems \;\n \;\n \;\nDecentralization\, Virtual Computing Enviro nment \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\nSpeaker \;\n \;\nMark Wheeler is a Blockchain technology enthusiast attending Portland State Universi ty majoring in Supply Chain Management. He has extensive experience in I T Operations working on Security\, Network\, and Application Server envi ronments. Mark has worked within the education\, insurance\, healthcare\ , software development\, telecommunication\, and aerospace sectors of th e economy. \;\n \;\nHis current interests are in the field of data analytics\, cloud computing\, and Supply Chain automation technologies. Mark has been a volunteer for the last two years with HackOregon workin g on visualizing public data. He is currently employed at Portland State University assisting in the implementations of their Community Engageme nt portal platform. \;\n \;\nAbout DAMA Portland \;\n \;\nT he Portland Metro Chapter of the Data Administration Management Associat ion has been serving the Portland data community since 1984. We are a no t-for-profit\, vendor independent\, professional association dedicated t o advancing the concepts and practices of enterprise information and dat a resource management. \;\n \;\nOur primary purpose is to promote the understanding\, development and practice of managing data\, informat ion and knowledge resources as key enterprise assets. \;\n \;\nTh e DAMA Portland Chapter is dedicated to delivering thought provoking dat a-centric presentations that will make you more successful in your job. Please join me\, the rest of the DAMA board\, and other fellow lovers o f data at this regular chapter meeting in downtown Portland. For more in formation and to register go to: http://www.damapdx.org/ \;\n \;\n Thanks for your support of local Data Education\, we look forward to see ing you there! \;\n\n\nTags: blockchain\, DAMA\, data\n\nImported fro m: http://calagator.org/events/1250473139 URL:https://damapdx.wordpress.com/2018/01/05/february-2018-business-appli cations-of-blockchain-technology/ SUMMARY:Business Applications of Blockchain Technology @DAMAPDX LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180325T064925Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180419T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180419T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180325T064925Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180325T064925Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250473479 DESCRIPTION:Presented by Andrew Ahn\, VP Product Management at Waterline Data \;\n \;\nAbstract \;\nHow to leverage metadata &\; spar k to manage traditional data sources and the modern data lake. A discuss ion of Waterline Data's approach to discover and understand relational d atabase\, Hive\, HDFS\, and Blob stores. \;\n \;\nSpeaker \;\nP rior to Waterline\, Andrew was Director of governance strategy\, product management covering Apache Falcon and Apache Atlas technologies and pro ducts. He was as also an Apache Atlas committer. Prior work includes Pro duct and Governance duties for the NYSE Euronext where he worked in the Chief Data Office and was responsible for the product development roadma p. \;\n \;\nCost \;\nFree for Members! \;\n \;\n$5 for St udents with valid student ID \;\n \;\n$15 for Non-Members \;\n& #13\;\nSee our corporate members at \;\nhttps://damapdx.wordpress.com /about-damapdx/corporate-members/\n\nTags: Data Lake\, Meta Data\, DAMA\ , DAMAPDX\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/1250473479 URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rsvp-for-damapdx-the-metadata-catalog-wi th-andrew-ahn-tickets-43371080068 SUMMARY:@DAMAPDX Chapter Meeting: The Metadata Catalog and the Modern Dat a Lake LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180325T063356Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180517T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180517T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180325T063356Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180325T063356Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250473478 DESCRIPTION:Presented by Karen Lopez\, Senior Project Manager and Archite ct at InfoAdvisors \;\n \;\nAbstract \;\nModern database system s have introduced more support for security\, privacy and compliance ove r the last few years. We expect this to increase as compliance issues su ch as GDPR and other data compliance challenges arise. \;\n \;\nIn this session\, Karen will be discussing the newer features from a datab ase designers points of view\, including: \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\ nData Masking \;\n \;\n \;\nEnd-to-end Encryption \;\n \; \n \;\nRow Level Security \;\n \;\n \;\nNew Data Types \; \n \;\n \;\nData Categorization and Classification \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\nWe'll look at the new features\, why you should consider them\, where they work\, where they don't\, who needs to be involved in using them\, and what changes\, if any\, need to be made to application s or tools that you support. \;\n \;\nSpeaker \;\nKaren is a se nior data architect with an extensive background in development processe s and data management. She specializes in taking practical approaches to solutions development. Karen has helped many IT organizations choose ap propriate methods and standards based on the group's culture\, experienc e\, and focus. She is an international speaker on modern development and design processes\, specializing in engaging\, often irreverent presenta tions on data and career-related topics. She blogs at datamodel.com and can be found on Twitter @datachick. \;\n \;\nCost \;\nFree for Members! \;\n \;\n$5 for Students with valid student ID \;\n 3\;\n$15 for Non-Members \;\n \;\nSee our corporate members at \;\nhttps://damapdx.wordpress.com/about-damapdx/corporate-members/\n\nTa gs: Data Modeling\, security\, DAMA\, DAMAPDX\n\nImported from: http://c alagator.org/events/1250473478 URL:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rsvp-for-damapdx-all-those-other-importa nt-parts-of-data-modeling-security-privacy-and-more-with-tickets-4448649 6308 SUMMARY:@DAMAPDX Chapter Meeting: All Those Other Important Parts of Data Modeling: Security\, Privacy and More LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180717T171715Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180719T113000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180719T083000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180717T171715Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180903T195744Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250474011 DESCRIPTION:Presented by Amit Vij (Standard Ins. Atrium) \;\nKinetica\ , President &\; Co-founder \;\n \;\nRSVP at https://www.eventbr ite.com/e/rsvp-for-damapdx-real-time-databases-with-amit-vij-tickets-465 02705845 \;\n \;\nFree for Members! \;\n$15 for Non-Members \;\n$5 for Students with valid student ID \;\n \;\nModern business is fluid.  Critical business events must be responded to when they occu r.  Delays mean lost opportunities and sub-optimal outcomes.  Modern ana lytics must be as agile as the business itself. \;\n \;\nThe days of looking at your data in the rear-view mirror are coming to an end.  We are at the dawn of a new analytic revolution:  the real-time database .   \;\n \;\nMillisecond latency is the new analytic performance standard.  A new class of GPU-accelerated databases enable this level of performance.  GPU-accelerated databases are over 100x more performant t han even the “fastest” in-memory data stores.  \;\n \;\nGPU-acce lerated databases can provide extreme levels of scalability without nega tive performance impacts.  They are also easy to implement\; thanks to t heir use of ANSI-standard SQL and hybrid visualization capabilities.  Th is makes them particularly attractive for some of the most demanding ana lytic tasks\; like scoring of predictive models\, and geospatial visuali zations. \;\n \;\nJoin Amit Vij from Kinetica to learn how GPU-ac celerated databases can enable real-time businesses. \;\n \;\n 3\;\nSpeaker \;\n \;\nAmit is President and Co-Founder of Kinetica . Amit is responsible for the vision and strategic decisions for the com pany. Having a background in computer engineering\, he has over a decade of software development experience in the commercial and federal space\ , with an emphasis in analyzing and visualizing big data\, and helped ar chitect Kinetica. Amit served as the chief GEOINT technical architect as a contractor for a major Top Secret cloud initiative between the US Arm y\, NSA\, and the DIA. Prior to Kinetica\, Amit was a subject matter exp ert on geospatial intelligence with General Dynamics AIS and had been ch ief architect for several Department of Defense and Department of Homela nd Security contracts. Amit received a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland with concentrations in Computer Science\, El ectrical Engineering\, and Mathematics. \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\nW hen \;\n \;\nJuly 19th\, 2018 (Chapter Meetings\, 3rd Thursday) 3\;\n \;\n \;\nSchedule \;\n8:30 – 9:00 am – Sign In \;\n9:0 0 – 10:15 am – Presentation \;\n10:15 – 10:30 am – Break\, Chapter An nouncements \;\n10:30 – 11:30 am – Presentation continued \;\n \;\nStandard Insurance Tower (900 SW 5th\, please note Standard Ins. has multiple downtown locations) \;\nAtrium Room at top of lobby escalat ors \;\n \;\nNearby parking options that are reasonably priced: 3\;\n \;\nSmart Park (818 SW 4th Ave\, Portland\, OR 97204) \;\nFi fth Taylor Park (545 SW Taylor St\, Portland\, OR 97204) \;\nCity Cen ter Parking (337 SW Salmon St\, Portland\, OR 97204) \;\n \;\nCost \;\n \;\nFree for Members! \;\n$15 for Non-Members \;\n$5 f or Students with valid student ID \;\nSee our corporate members \; \n \;\n\n\nTags: database\, DAMA\, DAMAPDX\n\nImported from: http://c alagator.org/events/1250474011 SUMMARY:@DAMAPDX "Real Time Databases" with Amit Vij LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:3 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180901T210203Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181018T170000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20181018T073000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180901T210203Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180901T210203Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250474195 DESCRIPTION: \;\nBuilding and Deploying Predictive Models - A full day Data Education and Networking Event coming to Portland October 18th \;\n \;\n \;\nJoin your fellow Lovers of Data for a full day of da ta education and networking provided by your local Portland DAMA Chapter . The DAMA Portland Chapter Board\, in conjunction with our sponsors Whe reScape\, are proud to welcome back one of our most popular speakers\, D ean Abbott of Abbott Analytics. Dean is one of Cognilytica's 50 Data Sci ence Influencers to follow for 2018. \;\n \;\nThis training is all day in downtown Portland Oregon\, with Breakfast and Lunch provided. De an will present four progressive sessions covering the building and depl oyment of predictive models. The sessions will include demos\, and Dean prefers a largely interactive format allowing plenty of time for Q&\; A both during the sessions and at the end of the day. \;\n \ ;\nSponsorship has allowed us to lower the price this year for this all day training to $49 for chapter members and employees of DAMA sponsor co mpanies ($69 general public) . This is an amazing value for your trainin g budget\, especially if you are looking for exposure to data science an d how to apply predictive modeling to your business use-cases. \;\ n \;\nLearn more and Register at: https://damapdx.org/2018/08/13/dama -day-2018-building-and-deploying-predictive-models-with-dean-abbott/#mor e-579. \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\nSession 1 — Data Science Overvie w \;\n \;\n \;\nSession 2 — Data Preparation for Data Science&# 13\;\n \;\n \;\nSession 3 — Building Predictive Models (Trees\, Ne ural Networks) \;\n \;\n \;\nSession 4 — Deploying Predictive M odels and Demos \;\n \;\n \;\nBonus Session: Q&\;A Roundtabl e with Dean \;\n \;\n \;\n \;\nBreakfast\, lunch\, 4 present ation sessions\, networking\, vendor booths\, and a bonus Q&\;A sessi on - that's a full day of data training and more. \;\n \;\n \;\ nThe Presenter \;\n \;\nDean Abbott has over 21 years of experienc e applying advanced data mining\, data preparation\, and data visualizat ion methods in real-world data intensive problems. In addition\, Dean ha s developed and evaluated algorithms for use in commercial data mining a nd pattern recognition products\, including polynomial networks\, neural networks\, radial basis functions\, and clustering algorithms. \;\n& #13\;\nDean is a seasoned instructor\, having taught a wide range of dat a mining tutorials and seminars. He is the instructor of well-regarded d ata mining courses\, explaining concepts in language readily understood by a wide range of audiences\, including analytics novices\, data analys ts\, statisticians\, and business professionals. Dean has also has taugh t both applied and hands-on data mining courses for a number of large so ftware vendors. \;\n \;\n \;\nAbout DAMA Portland \;\n \;\nThe Portland Metro Chapter of the Data Administration Management Ass ociation has been serving the Portland data community since 1984. We are a not-for-profit\, vendor independent\, professional association dedica ted to advancing the concepts and practices of enterprise information an d data resource management. \;\n \;\nOur primary purpose is to pro mote the understanding\, development and practice of managing data\, inf ormation and knowledge resources as key enterprise assets. \;\n \; \nThe DAMA Portland Chapter is dedicated to delivering thought provoking data-centric presentations that will make you more successful in your j ob. Please join me\, the rest of the DAMA board\, and other fellow lover s of data at this special data training event in downtown Portland. \ ;\n \;\nThanks for your support of local Data Education\, we look for ward to seeing you there!\n\nTags: data science\, predictive analytics\, DAMA\, portland\n\nImported from: http://calagator.org/events/125047419 5 URL:https://damapdx.org/2018/08/13/dama-day-2018-building-and-deploying-p redictive-models-with-dean-abbott/#more-579 SUMMARY:DAMA PDX: All day training with a top 50 Data Science influencer - Building and Deploying Predictive Models with Dean Abbott - 18Oct2018 LOCATION:Standard Insurance Center Auditorium: 900 SW 5th Avenue\, Portla nd Oregon 97204 United States SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR