[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Asset Health Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our March (2022) Asset Health Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, March 23rd at 2:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by Cameron Carroll, Innovation Group Product Manager, Digital Strategy at San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) who will be leading a discussion around, “Using AI to Transform Our Business.” As this discussion will be interactive we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speaker below!

Session Description:

SDG&E’s innovation framework of Learn, Proof, Scale has led to the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to transform their business. During this session, Cameron Carroll will highlight the collaboration and innovation of two SDG&E projects, the Drone Investigation Assessment & Repair (DIAR) and Intelligent Image Processing (IIP). These initiatives have come together to create a human + machine solution…utilizing drone capture imagery and machine learning models to automatically detect assets and asset damage in imagery generating valuable data and insights for the entire organization.

Speaker: Cameron Carroll, Innovation Group Product Manager, Digital Strategy (SDG&E)

Cameron Carroll is the Group Product Manager – Innovation, with Digital Strategy, at San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E). Cameron has been in the utility section for over 10 years. Cameron leads 4 workstreams including Innovation Engine, Intelligent Image Processing, Digital Twin, and Extended Reality. Over the last two years Cameron has had the opportunity to work in the computer vision space and it has been rewarding to see the value a human plus machine solution can unlock. Cameron is part of the leadership team for Intelligent Imagery Processing that earned coveted 2021 CIO 100 Award for its use of innovative technology to deliver greater business value and an enhanced customer experience. Cameron holds a BA in business administration and MA in organizational change management from California State University of Chico. 

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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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[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Safety Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our March (2022) Safety Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Tuesday, March 22nd at 2:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by the following speakers who will be leading a roundtable discussion around, “2022 Industry Trends, Utility Strategic Themes, and Safety Analytics Use Cases Supporting Strategic Themes” 

Facilitator:
– Erin Hardick, Sr. Research Analyst (UAI)

Speakers:
– Ankush Agarwal, Director, Grid T&D Analytics (Exelon Utilities)
– Rick Salcido, Analyst Data Science and Business Intelligence – Safety (El Paso Electric)
– Samantha Pixley, Manager, Fleet & Safety Informatics (CPS Energy)

As this discussion will be interactive, we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speakers below!

Session Description:

Join members of the Safety Analytics Community as they interactively discuss the following:

– Top industry trends that are likely impacting their utilities in 2022
– Strategic themes for their utilities for 2022
– Safety Analytics use cases that support their utilities’ strategic themes

Facilitator: Erin Hardick, Sr. Research Analyst (UAI)

Erin Hardick is the Senior Research Analyst at the Utility Analytics Institute. She works with utilities across North America to research emerging technologies and analytics strategies that are being used to achieve digital transformation goals. She has over five years of experience working in the sphere of energy, utilities, and cities. Erin previously worked at Zpryme as the Senior Research and Content Strategist where she produced research and media content. She’s participated in many thought leadership events including Energy Thought Summit, Smart Utility Summits, and City of the Future. Erin has also co-hosted the Zpryme On the Grid podcast and hosted a mobility video series, Weekly Mobility Update.  

Speaker: Ankush Agarwal, Director, Grid T&D Analytics (Exelon Utilities)

Ankush Agarwal is an innovative data analytics leader, with expertise in developing word-class analytics programs to enable a data-driven culture and transform operational and risk business functions. Recently named the director of Infrastructure Analytics at Exelon, Ankush is responsible for collaborating with business leaders and experts across the Exelon family of companies to develop and deploy an overall Infrastructure Grid T&D analytics strategy and platform. This work will drive sustained value by improving reliability and customer satisfaction, reducing operational costs, and capturing new revenue opportunities. Ankush was previously responsible for shaping the strategy and execution of Exelon’s Audit & Controls’ data analytics and IT Audit function. 

Speaker: Rick Salcido, Analyst Data Science and Business Intelligence – Safety (El Paso Electric)

Rick Salcido is a passionate and dedicated Analyst (Data Science and Business Intelligence) for the Safety Department at El Paso Electric where he has a huge contribution to the transformation of the safety culture to be driven by leading indicators. He is responsible for performing moderate to complex analysis; preparing administrative reports; researching; compiling and analyzing information on the company’s Safety and Health KPIs.  He comes from 10 years of experience in different analytics background such medical, education, and now utilities. Rick currently lives in El Paso, Texas where he enjoys traveling, playing music and spending time with his wife and corgi. 

Speaker: Samantha Pixley, Manager, Fleet & Safety Informatics (CPS Energy)

Samantha Perez Pixley is Manager of Fleet & Safety Informatics at CPS Energy in San Antonio, Texas. She has 14 years with the electric and natural gas utility and is working towards maturing analytics and technology for the Fleet and Safety teams. 

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A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com). For your convenience I have also attached the placeholder to this message. If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Tuesday, March 22nd at 2:00 PM CT, or are having trouble downloading the placeholder from this message, please reach back 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: 03-02-2022 12:34
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming March (2022) Community Conversation

Hello Safety Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! With March just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our March (2022) Safety Analytics Community Conversation. On Tuesday, March 22 at 2:00 PM CT, we will be joined by the following leadership team members who will be leading a roundtable themed discussion around, “2022 Industry Trends, Utility Strategic Themes, and Safety Analytics Use Cases Supporting Strategic Themes.”

-Ankush Agarwal, Director, Grid T&D Analytics (Exelon Utilities)
-Bert Hargesheimer, VP Operational Support Services (CPS Energy)

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, last month. 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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[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Grid Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our March (2022) Grid Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, March 16th at 1:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by Sean Otto, Director of Analytics and Glory Adepetu, Smart Grid Digital Transformation at AES who will be leading a discussion around, “Using Analytics Solutions to Optimize Vegetation Management.”  As this discussion will be interactive we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speakers below!

Session Description:

During this session, Sean and Glory will discuss how AES has improved vegetation management as a key way to achieve electric resiliency and affordability. They will speak to improvements AES has made in the vegetation management and forestry area and approaches they have taken.

Speaker: Sean Otto, Director of Analytics (AES)

Over Sean’s career he has had a variety of roles, but at their core they have been about driving analytic data products and leading individuals to execute in a timely fashion for those projects. He has been working in a variety of industries from High Tech, Oil & Gas, Medical, Energy to Aerospace. While all of them have different expertise, the foundational theme has been leveraging AI and ML driven data products to drive reduction in costs, improve current process and create new lines of business. Sean partners with key business stakeholders across the organization to strategize, set vision and define IoT, AI / ML and data product strategies to support repeatable processes to turn raw data into new insights and recommendations that support business objectives, while fostering a date-driven culture.

Speaker: Glory Adepetu, Smart Grid Digital Transformation (AES)

Glory Adepetu leads the strategy development and tactical execution of the digital initiatives that are a part of the Smart Grid digital road map at The AES Corporation. She partners with Operations, Asset Management, Field service, OT and IT leadership to lead deployment of key IT solutions to support their Smart Grid digital strategy. Glory holds a bachelor of science in Electrical Engineering from Indiana University—Purdue University Indianapolis.  
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A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com). For your convenience I have also attached the placeholder to this message. If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Wednesday, March 16th at 1:00 PM CT, or are having trouble downloading the placeholder from this message, please reach back 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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[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Natural Gas Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our March (2022) Natural Gas Analytics Community Conversation and want to provide a quick update to our session title (from our previous communication) and also get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, March 16th at 11:00 AM CT, we’ll be joined by the following members from Con Edison who will be leading a discussion around, “Gas Leak Response Analytics at Con Edison”

– Oscar Leon, Department Manager, Gas Emergency Response Center (Con Ed)
– Sho Ohata, Data Scientist (Con Ed)
– Krystin Vitale, Data Scientist (Con Ed)

As this discussion will be interactive, we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speakers below!

Session Description:

Responding to gas leaks in a timely manner is a key operational metric for gas utilities. In this session, the Con Edison team will present on the Company’s efforts to date to bring data and analytics capabilities to the Gas Emergency Response Center to continuously improve on their gas leak response time. The session will go through the entire arc – from project inception, the labor-intensive data work, the unique and rich opportunities open data has offered, successes to date, challenges, and what we have planned in the future.

Speaker: Oscar Leon, Department Manager, Gas Emergency Response Center (Con Ed)

Oscar Leon is the Department Manager of the Gas Emergency Response Center and has 17 years of service at Con Edison with a varied background in Gas Operations.  He started out as a union employee as a General Utility Worker then progressed into management and subsequently held several positions of increasing responsibility. Oscar has worked in all regions within the organization.  Oscar holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Organizational Leadership from Manhattan College.

Speaker: Sho Ohata, Data Scientist (Con Ed)

Sho Ohata is an experienced utility professional who joined Con Edison in 2010. During his time at Con Edison, he has worked in a variety of positions ranging from Engineering, Project Management, Analyst, and most recently as a Data Scientist in the Analytics Center of Excellence. Sho holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Rutgers University and a Master of Information in Data Science from University of California Berkeley. 

 
Speaker: Krystin Vitale, Data Scientist (Con Ed)

Krystin Vitale joined Con Edison in 2016 as part of the Leadership Development program.  After graduating from the program, she joined the Analytics Center of Excellence as a Data Scientist where she focuses on geospatial analysis. Krystin holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science and a Master of Science in Computer Science from Fordham University. 

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A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com). For your convenience I have also attached the placeholder to this message. If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Wednesday, March 16th at 11:00 AM CT, or are having trouble downloading the placeholder from this message, please reach back 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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[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Data Science Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our March (2022) Data Science Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Tuesday, March 15th at 1:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by Community Leader Mario Correa, Project Manager – Implementation & Deployment at SoCal Gas who will be leading a discussion around, “Building a Platform that can Host Smart Applications.” As this discussion will be interactive we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speaker below!

Session Description:

Learn about creating a platform with frameworks that provide a springboard for rapid implementation of new processes, workflows, and ideas. Such frameworks help to decouple IT-like tasks for business analysts and data scientists. The internal platform also acts as a stepping stone for cloud deployment.

Speaker: Mario Correa, Project Manager – Implementation & Deployment (SoCal Gas)

Mario Correa joined SoCal Gas in 2016.  He led and established the first multi-disciplinary team of Data Scientists, Data Analysts and Business Analyst for Customer Services that has implemented big data and operational analytics for the company.  He recently established the SoCalGas Model Review Board.  The board is a cross-functional, diverse and experienced core group of data scientists that provide guidance for designing, developing, deploying, governing and maintaining machine learning models which support strategic and operational goals of SoCalGas business units.

Prior to SoCal Gas, Mario worked at Raytheon Company on augmented GPS systems in various capacities that included algorithm team lead, hardware team lead and software developer.  Mario’s background is in mathematics and computer science. 

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

This is super helpful @Jason thank you so much for the quick reply! I’ll pass along this info to @Michael so he can follow up with any additional questions.

Thanks again!​​

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Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-24-2022 16:45
From: Jason Pegg
Subject: Data Analyst Candidates – Interview Questions & Interpreting Good Answers

Great question, Michael!

I think it depends a bit on what you’re hoping to accomplish.  Will this person be focused solely on analytics, or will this person also be responsible for tooling and environments?  How do you define “analytics”?  For instance, are you looking primarily at descriptive analytics (reports, business intelligence, etc.), predictive analytics (trending, statistics, forecasting, etc.), prescriptive analytics (recommendation engines, neural networks, etc.), or all the above?  What are the business use cases driving the hire?

How you answer these questions will help determine the kind of person you’re looking for, and therefore the questions that should be asked.  If you’re looking to stand up a cloud-based analytics environment where you have none today, then you probably want someone who knows analytics, but also has experience building in various cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, etc.).  If you already have a great reporting system in place but you want to bring it to the “next level” of predictive and prescriptive analytics, then you’re probably looking for someone with a strong background in core data science analytics tooling who also has some formal mathematics education.  If you’re looking for someone who can be the first analyst who then builds up an entire department, then you’re looking for someone with general data science knowledge who also has an entrepreneur background with previous management experience.

Once you’ve narrowed it down (and it’s possible you’ve already done everything above), you might consider reaching out to a sister utility with an established group and see if they could “loan” you someone that could participate in the interview process – both writing questions and interviewing candidates.  It might be the safest way of ensuring the candidate aligns with your positional goals while also ensuring a cultural fit.

Hope that helps.  If you have answers to some of the questions above, I suspect many of us would love to contribute some interview questions.  Good luck on the hunt!

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Jason Pegg
Domain Architect
Avista Corp.
Spokane WA
509.495.4731
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-24-2022 16:16
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Data Analyst Candidates – Interview Questions & Interpreting Good Answers

Hello Data Science Members,

A great question came up during our Enterprise Analytics Community Conversation earlier that I wanted to pose to this group as well. We’ve also posted in our Ask Your Network Community but wanted to include below as well. Do any of you have suggestions for Michael (Georgia Transmission)? Might you be willing to share anything or connect with Michael? Take a look below:

“GTC is trying to hire our first data analyst but without analytics expertise inhouse, we need help preparing interview questions and interpreting good answers from the candidates on their technical knowledge. Do any members have advice or suggestions on preparing the right interview questions and interpreting good answers? Also, do you know of a resource of any one or any organization who may be able to help us?”

Thanks in advance for your help and I look forward to your replys!

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

Huge thank you to @Eric and the AEP team for their insight! ​

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Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-24-2022 14:09
From: Erin Hardick
Subject: New project profile: AEP’s Distribution Reliability Mapping Tool

Hello members!

We have a new project profile available from AEP, “Distribution Reliability Mapping Tool”! This project will deliver Reliability Mapping Tool (RMT), which will provide deeper analytics and supporting visualizations for use in the Distribution system planning and Operating Company Reliability Management processes.

Thank you @Eric for completing this project profile and sharing it with the community!

To view the entire submission, ​head to the Research + Resources tab and scroll to the Utility Project Profile Database section.

​Please consider sharing a project profile with the community. Reach out to me for the project profile form!

Thank you,
Erin

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Erin Hardick
Senior Research Analyst
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
CO
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[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello @Patti and @John,

Thanks for getting in touch and it’s great to see your interest in our “Storytelling with Data” session! ​This session is reserved for members of our Data Science community and I’m happy to admit you both in so you can access our complete Data Science Community Library and also have access to any upcoming sessions. Please visit our Data Science Library HERE to access this session (you may need to log out and back in first).

If you have any issues accessing please reach out to me (kpraet@utilityanalytics.com) and let me know.

Thanks again!

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Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-23-2022 09:42
From: John Chico
Subject: Storytelling With Data – Why Next Week’s Data Science Community Conversation is a Must!

Kevin,
The  “Storytelling with Data.” session sounds very interesting to me. However, I am apparently not part of the Data Science Community., Therefore, I am sending this message to you. Please forward me the invite to enable downloading. Thank you.

Best Regards,
John

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John Chico
Integrated Technical Auditor
SRP
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-14-2022 14:25
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Storytelling With Data – Why Next Week’s Data Science Community Conversation is a Must!

Good Afternoon UAI Utility Members,

Happy Friday! I hope everyone’s had a great start to their 2022s and are getting ready for an exciting month of UAI Community Conversations. Of the sessions taking place this month, we wanted to make you aware of our Data Science Community Conversation (taking place Tuesday, January 18th at 1:00 PM CT) which will be one of the more different (but exciting!) formats we’ve explored to date. The topic is also something we’ve been hearing several members ask about.

During this session we’ll be joined by Sabine Devins (Digital Story Teller, Content Maker, & Speaker) out of Berlin, Germany who will be leading an interactive discussion around, “Storytelling with Data.” During this session, Sabine will take us through the fundamentals of finding a story, crafting a story and presenting a story with examples from her work as the Managing Editor of the award-winning INFO.GRAPHICS digital magazine. As a group, we’ll look at the stories and how we applied certain principles and how and why to apply storytelling to our work.

Given the topic and interactive format, we want to open this session to all UAI Utility Members. If this session sounds interesting to you and you are not part of the Data Science Community, please send me a message at kpraet@utilityanalytics.com so I can forward you over the invite.

I’ve gotten a sneak peak of Sabine’s presentation and couldn’t be more excited for Tuesday! Please consider joining us for this great session and feel free to pass along this note to other members internally who may benefit.

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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[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Enterprise Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our February (2022) Enterprise Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Thursday, February 24th at 1:00 PM CT, we will be joined by Ben Ettlinger, IT Data Analytics Architect at NYPA who will be leading a discussion around, “Creating an Analytics Community of Practice.”  As this discussion will be interactive, we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speaker below!

Session Description:

During this presentation, Ben will cover the difference between a Community of Practice (CoP) and a Center of Excellence and what it took to create a successful Analytics Community of Practice at the New York Power Authority. We will cover the building blocks of a CoP and what you should be focused on.

Speaker: Ben Ettlinger, IT Data Analytics Architect (NYPA)

Ben Ettlinger is the Founding ​Manager of the Digital Analytics group at the New York Power Authority. He is now responsible for Analytics Enablement & Emerging Technologies and has 29 years of utility industry experience at NYPA.​​ 
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A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com). For your convenience I have also attached the placeholder to this message. If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Thursday, February 24th at 1:00 PM CT, or are having trouble downloading the placeholder from this message, please reach back 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: 02-02-2022 14:30
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming February (2022) Community Conversation

Hello Enterprise Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! With February just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our February (2022) Enterprise Analytics Community Conversation. On Thursday, February 24th at 1:00 PM CT, we will be joined by Ben Ettlinger, IT Data Analytics Architect at NYPA who will be leading a discussion around, “Creating an Analytics Community of Practice.” 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, last month. 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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[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Asset Health Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are just uner one week away from our February (2022) Asset Health Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, February 23rd at 2:00 PM CT, we will be joined by Pavel Ozhogin, Director, Data Science & Solution Development, and Srikant Vadali, Data Science Manager, at National Grid who will be leading a discussion around, “The Impact of Climate Change to Electric Transmission Assets”. As this discussion will be interactive, we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speakers below!

Session Description:

MIT did a study for National Grid where they simulated weather for the years 2025 – 2041 over a broad area that encompasses our service territory in New England and New York. The simulation took one year to complete and provides hourly weather data at a resolution of 3 km. The dataset is 63 terabytes in size and resides in our corporate Azure environment. The data science team at National Grid performed an extreme event analysis of wind speed and icing data to identify electric circuits that are likely to be impacted in the future. Our analysis provides insight on which circuits/assets National Grid should focus on to ensure that our transmission network is resilient to climate change.

Speaker: Pavel Ozhogin, Director, Data Science & Solution Development (National Grid)

Dr. Ozhogin has a passion for discovering actionable data insights that lead to measurable business impact. As the Director of Data Science, he leads and coaches his team of data scientists and energy forecasters to continuously identify and deliver on opportunities to help National Grid improve and maximize the value of using data science as a capability. Pavel enjoys working in the utility industry, which offers wide variety of data sets, vast use-cases in applying analytics, and most importantly – tangible societal impact. 

Speaker: Srikant Vadali, Data Science Manager (National Grid)

Srikant Vadali is a Data Science Manager at National Grid and was a Lead Data Scientist before he transitioned to the present role. He leads and manages the data engineering and machine learning operations for Data Science projects at National Grid. He has over 9 years of experience in the area of Data Science.
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A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com). For your convenience I have also attached the placeholder to this message. If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Wednesday, February 23rd at 2:00 PM CT, or are having trouble downloading the placeholder from this message, please reach back 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: 02-02-2022 14:00
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming February (2022) Community Conversation

Hello Asset Health Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! With February just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our February (2022) Asset Health Analytics Community Conversation. On Wednesday, February 23rd at 2:00 PM CT, we will be joined by Pavel Ozhogin, Director, Data Science & Solution Development, and Srikant Vadali, Data Science Manager, at National Grid who will be leading a discussion around, “The Impact of Climate Change to Electric Transmission Assets”. 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, last month. 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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[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Safety Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our February (2022) Safety Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Tuesday, February 22nd at 2:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by the following speakers from Oncor who will be leading a discussion around, “Enhancing Operational Efficiency and Safety by Optimizing Routes and Work Schedule Assignments.”

Josh Power, Capability Lead, Advanced Analytics, Automation, & AI
Miguel Morales, Data Scientist
Daniel Gonzales-Rubio, Manager AMS Ops
Erik Swedeen, Sr AMS Data Analyst 

As this discussion will be interactive, we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session below!

Session Description:

During this session, Josh and his team at Oncor will share more information about Oncor’s truck route optimization algorithm using genetic machine learning to minimize miles driven. This is a similar approach to how UPS and FedEx optimize their delivery routes. Less miles behind the wheel = safer drivers.
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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, February 22 at 2:00 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: 02-02-2022 14:30
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming February (2022) Community Conversation

Hello Safety Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! With February just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our February (2022) Safety Analytics Community Conversation. On Tuesday, February 22nd at 2:00 PM CT, we will be joined by Josh Power, Capability Lead, Advanced Analytics, Automation, & AI, Miguel Morales, Data Scientist, Daniel Gonzales-Rubio, Manager AMS Ops, and Erik Swedeen, Sr AMS Data Analyst from Oncor who will be leading a discussion around, “Enhancing Operational Efficiency and Safety by Optimizing Routes and Work Schedule Assignments.” 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, last month. 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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[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hey @Tom,

Thanks for getting in touch! The “404” error you were refering to is currently being resolved by our team and we apologize for any inconvenience.

I just forwarded over the Grid Analytics Placeholder series to your email. As there’s still been concerns with member’s firewalls blocking these invites please let me know if you did not recieve so we can ​troubleshoot. 

Thanks again!

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Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-10-2022 16:09
From: Tom Malone
Subject: Upcoming February (2022) Community Conversation

Hi Kevin,

 

Can you forward me the invite to this session.  I tried to join the community from the web site but am getting a 404 page not found error.

 

Thanks!

 

Best regards,

Thomas Malone | Business Operations Analyst – Work Optimzation / Data Automation and Visualizations
Distribution Portfolio Management | phone: (717) 560-2461 | tdmalone@pplweb.com

PPL 651 Delp Rd LANSC Lancaster, PA 17804

 

 

 

Business Use

Original Message:
Sent: 2/10/2022 3:55:00 PM
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: RE: Upcoming February (2022) Community Conversation

Hello Grid Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are just under one week away from our February (2022) Grid Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, February 16th at 1:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by Hagen Haentsch, Director of Grid Operations at Oncor, who will be leading a discussion around, “Grid Echo.”  As this discussion will be interactive, we urge you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session below!

Session Description:

To gain valuable insights in its operations, equipment performance, and customer behavior any Distribution utility will benefit from combining and synchronizing these disparate data sets. However, to avoid redundancy and silo-ed multiplication of efforts by focusing on specific use cases only, Oncor invested in an effort to produce a clean, synchronized, and comprehensive data scheme containing all relevant operational time series data sets to enable and accelerate higher order analytics use case development in operations, asset management and customer operations. Oncor’s combined and curated data set entailing all critical Distribution time series data was called ‘Grid Echo’TM.

This session discusses:
– How Oncor utilizes connectivity models to tell the story of an outage in geospatial visualization environment as well as on schematic visualization
– How Oncor increases the visibility to distribution connectivity model data and various equipment parameters on a Geospatial visualization
– How Oncor creates a self-service visualization platform that would allow management to review the state of the system, company’s response to an outage event and identify any missed opportunities
– Operational usage of “Grid Echo”
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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 Wednesday, February 16th 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!

——————————
Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-02-2022 14:30
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming February (2022) Community Conversation

Hello Grid Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! With February just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our February (2022) Grid Analytics Community Conversation. On Wednesday, February 16th at 1:00 PM CT, we will be joined by Hagen Haentsch, Director of Grid Operations at Oncor who will be leading a discussion around, “Grid Echo.” 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, last month. 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!

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

Hello Grid Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are just under one week away from our February (2022) Grid Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, February 16th at 1:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by Hagen Haentsch, Director of Grid Operations at Oncor, who will be leading a discussion around, “Grid Echo.”  As this discussion will be interactive, we urge you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session below!

Session Description:

To gain valuable insights in its operations, equipment performance, and customer behavior any Distribution utility will benefit from combining and synchronizing these disparate data sets. However, to avoid redundancy and silo-ed multiplication of efforts by focusing on specific use cases only, Oncor invested in an effort to produce a clean, synchronized, and comprehensive data scheme containing all relevant operational time series data sets to enable and accelerate higher order analytics use case development in operations, asset management and customer operations. Oncor’s combined and curated data set entailing all critical Distribution time series data was called ‘Grid Echo’TM.

This session discusses:
– How Oncor utilizes connectivity models to tell the story of an outage in geospatial visualization environment as well as on schematic visualization
– How Oncor increases the visibility to distribution connectivity model data and various equipment parameters on a Geospatial visualization
– How Oncor creates a self-service visualization platform that would allow management to review the state of the system, company’s response to an outage event and identify any missed opportunities
– Operational usage of “Grid Echo”
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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 Wednesday, February 16th 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!

——————————
Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-02-2022 14:30
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming February (2022) Community Conversation

Hello Grid Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! With February just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our February (2022) Grid Analytics Community Conversation. On Wednesday, February 16th at 1:00 PM CT, we will be joined by Hagen Haentsch, Director of Grid Operations at Oncor who will be leading a discussion around, “Grid Echo.” 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, last month. 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!

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

[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Natural Gas Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are just under one week away from our February (2022) Natural Gas Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, February 16th at 11:00 AM CT, we’ll be joined by the following facilitator and panelists who will be leading a panel themed discussion around, “Cost of Service.”

Facilitator:
– David Baron, Director, Performance Management and Organizational Strategy (SoCalGas)
Panelists:
– Krista Shurtz, P.E., Director – Rates and Fuels (City Utilities of Springfield)
– Amelia Badders, Senior Director of Strategic Pricing and Cost Recovery (CPS Energy)
– Jordan Williams, Manager of Regulatory Rates (TECO-Peoples Gas)

Learn more about this session and our speakers below!

Session Description:

During this session, we will have several utility members discuss “Cost of Service,” including, but not limited to the following points:

– What is the cost of service to our customers?
– How much does it cost to serve customers compared to other utilities
– What analytics do utilities use in the collections process?
– Talk about the process… Utilities use different financial methods that sometimes make it difficult to quantify their costs. Who is tackling this problem and how is your utility doing it? How is your utility approaching it?

This will be an interactive discussion, so please come prepared with your questions to drive the conversation with our panelists and create a collaborative conversation.

Facilitator: David Baron, Director, Performance Management and Organizational Strategy (SoCalGas)

David has worked at SoCalGas since 2012, and his organization provides support to the rest of the company in Data Science, Process Improvement, Workforce Planning and Change Management.  Prior to SoCalGas, he spent many years leading a customer analytics consulting practice across multiple industries including Utilities.  He holds advanced degrees in Statistics, Operations Research and Business. 

Panelist: Krista Shurtz, P.E., Director – Rates and Fuels (City Utilities of Springfield)

Krista Shurtz is the Director of Rates and Fuels for City Utilities in Springfield, MO. She leads the team responsible for City Utilities’ rate program, provides revenue and fuels forecasts used in budgeting and long-range planning, and is responsible for City Utilities’ fuels management.Krista earned a Master of Science degree in environmental engineering from Clemson University during an Applied Health Physics Fellowship with the Department of Energy and a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from the University of Kansas.She is a registered professional engineer. 

Panelists: Amelia Badders, Senior Director of Strategic Pricing and Cost Recovery (CPS Energy)

Amelia Badders serves as Interim Senior Director of Strategic Pricing & Cost Recovery at CPS Energy.  During her 27 years at the company, she has held a variety of leadership and technical roles starting out in utility cost of service and rate design as her first role at the utility. Amelia holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from East Carolina University and a Master of Sciencedegree in Management of Technology from the University of Texas at San Antonio. 

Panelist: Jordan Williams, Manager of Regulatory Rates, TECO-Peoples Gas (an Emera Company)

Jordan Williams has a Master of Arts in Economics from the University of South Florida. He has 10 years of utility experience, 8 with Tampa Electric and 2 with Peoples Gas System. His background includes econometric work in the forecasting department alongside being fluent in multiple computer coding languages. His current responsibilities include rate design, cost of service allocations, and load and revenue forecasting. 
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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 Wednesday, February 16th at 11:00 AM 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!

——————————
Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-02-2022 14:30
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming February (2022) Community Conversation

Hello Natural Gas Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! With February just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our February (2022) Natural Gas Analytics Community Conversation. On Wednesday, February 16th at 11:00 AM CT, we will be joined by the following facilitator and panelists who will be leading a discussion around, “Cost of Service.”

Facilitator:
– David Baron, Director, Performance Management and Organizational Strategy, SoCalGas

Panelists:
– Krista Shurtz, P.E., Director – Rates and Fuels, City Utilities in Springfield, MO
– Amelia Badders, Senior Director of Strategic Pricing and Cost Recovery, CPS Energy
– Jordan Williams, Manager of Regulatory Rates, TECO-Peoples Gas (an Emera Company)

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, last month. 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!

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

[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Data Science Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are one week away from our February (2022) Data Science Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Tuesday, February 15th at 1:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by Dominic Ciarlette, Senior Project Engineer – Data Solutions at EN Engineering, who will be leading a discussion around, “Sifting Data for Suspicious Records with Machine Learning.” As this discussion will be interactive, we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your insight.

Learn more about this session and our speaker below!

Session Description:

When managing utility assets, public safety and federal regulations demand the most accurate data possible. Using machine learning, EN Engineering has developed a model that identifies individual records likely to contain erroneous data. This improves efficiency in correcting datasets and reveals trends that can then be analyzed to strengthen the accuracy of all records.

Session Takeaways:
– Identify data within a set most likely to be erroneous
– Improve accuracy of large datasets through machine learning
– Reveal and analyze trends in large datasets using data models

Speaker: Dominick Ciarlette, Senior Project Engineer – Data Solutions (EN Engineering)

Mr. Dominic Ciarlette is Senior Project Engineer and engineering consultant at EN Engineering with expertise in data analysis and modeling activities to support system design and operation. 

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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, February 15th 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!

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