This two-day course will prepare functional managers and analytic practitioners to finally make sense of data analytics and take control of the analytic process. “Transforming Data to Decisions” develops core skills for data analytics and lays the foundation for data-intensive analytic projects that deliver insight, clarity, confidence and actionable decision support. Attendees will learn the four major types of problems encountere...

Date: Thu, Dec 4, 2014 2:00 PM EST Duration: 1 Hour Accreditation: 1 CPE Cost: Complimentary Cloud-Driven Data Insights in Government Proactively addressing priorities and mitigating risk requires that leaders and staff have reliable access to all information so they can make decisions and swiftly respond to changing conditions. To enable this, agencies need to effectively manage several aspects of their Big Data—from how they store grow...

OUTCOME DRIVEN GOVERNMENT FORUM Achieving better results through new approaches to enterprise architecture that focus on outcomes. Join noted EA experts and practitioners who are re-thinking how to approach Enterprise Architecture and are succeeding at achieving transformational results. Discuss with these thought leaders how they are making EA more effective and efficient in accomplishing its purpose. The purpose of this workshop is to examin...

As the government focuses on creating innovative solutions to save money, thieves are focused on undermining that progress. Sometimes it's hard to tell which side has the advantage. Identity thieves and others who cheat the government are working on an industrial scale, devising complex scams that include hundreds of accomplices. The Federal government is losing an estimated $300 billion per year to fraud. Thieves target Medicare and Medicaid,...

Big data is changing the business of government. Many agencies have turned to a platform-based approach that bundles big data tools like analytics and information management software together. This innovative approach to managing an ever-growing deluge of disparate data, allows agencies to simplify their IT landscape and make the most of their limited budget dollars. Across government, technology is doing the analytic legwork in a simplified a...

Leveraging Data as an Enterprise AssetThere is no lack of data in government and the challenges of managing data, how to leverage it and make good organizational decisions about it are increasingly on the minds of government leaders everywhere. Government leaders are continually asking themselves how they can use data efficiently, maximize the value of data, and leverage data on demand to better serve their mission – especially in the ar...

The National Military Intelligence Association (NMIA) is pleased to explore Intelligence Analysis in the 21st Century during its Fall 2014 Symposium. The onset of so called “Big Data” requires the IC to develop new tools, tradecraft, and analytical methodologies to meet its customers’ needs while mitigating the vulnerabilities arising from our adversaries’ access to ubiquitous data. We’ll examine current analytica...

Big Data TechCon features practical, how-to classes and tutorials for IT and Big Data professionals, including data and business analysts, developers, software architects, data scientists, and project managers. Big Data TechCon is the how-to Big Data training conference for professionals implementing and analyzing Big Data. Attend Big Data TechCon to get practical Hadoop training, classes on MapReduce, R, Hive and Pig. Take a Big Data analytic...

The University of Maryland is hosting an intensive three-day workshop featuring talks, panels and hands-on tutorials on the latest advances in GPU computing, with a focus on applications in medical informatics, engineering simulations, astronomy, Big Data, and geosciences. The summit will feature experts from UMD and NVIDIA, with additional participation from the Army Research Lab, DARPA, Naval Research Lab, FDA, NASA, National Institutes of H...

TechXact, the global leader in Data Center Audit and Certification, and the largest provider of Professional Data Center Training Seminars, is hosting the next IDCA Training and Certification Seminar for: Manager Route in: Washington D.C. - Data Center Operations Manager DCOM)®, on October 6th-10th Chicago - Data Center Operations Manager (DCOM)®, on October 13th-17th Expert Route in: San Francisco - Data Center Infrastructure Expert (...