Cincinnati Blacks in Technology: 'Insights Through Data Visualization'

BDPA (http://www.bdpa.org/group/CI) hosts ‘Cincinnati Blacks In Technology’ to collaborate with the vibrant community of like-minded technology professionals of color in our city. The doors are wide open for those folks who passionate about all things technical. Our meetups encourage fun, socializing and high level talks on a variety of technology topics. IT recruiters and IT job seekers are both welcome!

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This month, we will dive into the world of data analysis and visualization. As data continues to proliferate our lives and work, the question of how to make sense of it and turn it into information and knowledge becomes more and more challenging. At the same time, powerful tools are becoming available to help analysts sift through data and present it in a way that draws attention to key bits of knowledge than can be derived. As such, the skills related to using these tools effectively have become highly sought-after as organizations seek to dig out the treasures hidden in their data troves.

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Dr. Jeffrey Camm is Professor of Business Analytics, Director of the Center for Business Analytics, and Fellow of the Graduate School at the University of Cincinnati. He has been at the University of Cincinnati since 1984 and was visiting scholar at Stanford University in 1992. In 2004, he was visiting professor of business administration at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Dr. Camm has published four management science texts and over thirty papers in the general area of optimization applied to problems in operations management.

His work in supply chain optimization with Procter & Gamble was a 1996 Edelman Award Finalist and is credited with helping P&G save over $250,000,000 annually in their North American supply chain. In 1998, his joint work on nature reserve site selection for efficient conservation, published in Science, appeared in a brief to President Clinton.

BDPA is excited to have Jeff sharing key insights on how to make technology work for our members at this meetup. Anyone …regardless of race or color … interested in tech is welcome!