[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Data Science Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our October Data Science Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Tuesday, October 19 at 1:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by the following speakers who will be leading a “Show and Tell” themed discussion around, Data Visualizer Tools:

– Sam Dean, Developmental Associate, IT – Enterprise Analytics, TVA – Python/Dash

– Aidan Smith, Quantitative Analyst – Enterprise Analytics, TVA – R / Shiny

– Mike White, Local Relations Representative & Data Scientist, American Transmission Company – Python

– Xu (Lisa) Weihong, Customer Analytics Manager, Georgia Power (Southern Company) – SAS, Tableau, and Power BI

– Terry Liu, System Developer, Business Data & Analytics Platform, Manitoba Hydro – Power BI data visualizer and its sister product, Report Builder

Learn more about this session and our speakers below!

Session Description:

During this “Show and Tell” themed discussion, members will share what tools they are using for data visualization and how they are using them. Come prepared with your questions as our presenters do a demo of their tools.

Speaker: Sam Dean, Developmental Associate, IT – Enterprise Analytics (TVA)

Sam Dean has been with TVA a little over two years working on Data Analytics projects written in Python. Projects include text search and analytics as well as predictive models around nuclear equipment failures and hydroelectric flow patterns. Before TVA, he worked with UTC’s SimCenter on Twitter text and location data analysis while earning his Master’s in Computer Science.  

Speaker: Aidan Smith, Quantitative Analyst – Enterprise Analytics (TVA)

Aidan Smith has been at TVA for two and a half years working as a Quantitative Analyst in the Advanced Analytics and Enterprise Analytics organizations. Projects include optimization models, predictive time series forecasting, computer vision, and interactive web app development.  Aidan uses python for general programming but is a huge fan of the R programming language for data manipulation, visualization, and web app development.  Aidan has an undergraduate degree in Statistics from the University of Tennessee and a master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

Speaker: Mike White, Local Relations Representative & Data Scientist (American Transmission Company)

Mike White joined ATC full time in 2017 where he serves a variety of communication and public relations roles. Mike also serves as a core team member of ATC’s data analytics, AI & machine learning initiative.

In 2002 Mike co-founded The Shop Consulting and served as President of one of Wisconsin’s premier public affairs and strategic communication firms. Prior to forming The Shop he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and worked in both policy and technology positions for the Wisconsin Legislature. He earned a master’s degree in Data Science from the University of Wisconsin Data Science Program. 

Speaker: Xu (Lisa) Weihong, Customer Analytics Manager (Georgia Power)

Lisa Xu is currently working on the Georgia Power’s Customer Experience team, focusing on improving customer journey experiences. Prior to her current role, she was with the Customer Analytics team, predicting customer behaviors to promote marketing campaigns.

Speaker: Terry Liu, System Developer, Business Data & Analytics Platform (Manitoba Hydro)

Terry Liu is a System Developer in the new Business Data & Analytics Platform section at Manitoba Hydro. He has worked at Manitoba Hydro for over 16 years in various roles within the Information Technology Services division. In the last several years, Terry’s focus has been supporting Data and Analytics at Manitoba Hydro. His background is primarily in Computer Science wherehe has a master’s degree majoring in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and minoring in Business. 

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A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com). If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Tuesday, October 19th at 1:00 PM CT, please reach out to me so I can be sure you are forwarded the invite an alternate way.

Thanks and I look forward to connecting next week!

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Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-01-2021 13:18
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming October (2021) Community Conversation

Hello Data Science Community Members,

Happy Friday and I hope all is well! With October just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our October (2021) Data Science Community Conversation. On Tuesday, October 19th at 1:00 PM CT, we will be joined by Xu (Lisa) Weihong, Customer Analytics Manager at Southern Company and Terry Liu, System Developer, Business Data & Analytics Platform at Manitoba Hydro who will be leading a show and tell themed discussion around, Data Visualizer Tools.

I’ll be providing more information on this session one week prior to our meeting but you can always learn more about each of our upcoming Community Conversations on our Events Page HERE.

Our latest IT update allows me to send meeting placeholders directly to your calendars through my alternate email address kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com. I sent out invitations for this community, and each of our other communities, earlier this week. If you did not receive a calendar invitation let me know so I can help troubleshoot. As this seems to be an issue with some of our members’ firewalls, we recommend whitelisting my new email address kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com to ensure any invites don’t go to your spam/junk folders.

Again please let me know if you have any questions/concerns or do not have a calendar placeholder on your calendar.

Thanks and I look forward to connecting with you all this month!

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Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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