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Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 - Towers Watson, Philadelphia 

We hope you will join DAMA Philadelphia/Delaware Valley to hear

 

Stan Taylor
 

Dr. Strangedata, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Statistics

 

 

Peter Benson

 

ISO 8000 Data Quality

 

and

Tom Haughey

 

The Role of Data Architecture in NOSQL

 

The Presenters:

Stanford Taylor is presently the data warehouse architect for Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, PA. He has over 21 years of information technology and software engineering experience in a variety of industries, including defense, manufacturing, utilities and communications, finance and healthcare. The majority of this time has been devoted to helping companies leverage the value of their corporate data assets. He has led data integration, data warehousing and enterprise information management initiatives, covering development, project management, architecture, data quality, stewardship and governance. He received his BS in Computer Science from Penn State University and his MS in Computer Science from Drexel University, is a certified Project Management Professional, and is currently working towards Six Sigma Green Belt certification.

Session Topic:

Dr. Strangedata: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Statistics – ever wonder how good the US system of healthcare really is? How these facts are determined? How might you know whether the doctor you are visiting is among the best, or perhaps maybe among the worst? Can you even trust what is being reported? Healthcare is a dizzyingly complex environment, now being further complicated by heightened competition, greater focus on cost and outcomes, increasing regulatory forces, and a dramatic influx of federal funding for specific initiatives. In this country, data is playing an ever-increasing role in how healthcare is delivered and paid for, and the ways in which people who become patients make health-related decisions, including where they go and who they see for treatment. All the while, doctors and other healthcare professionals are working to improve the standards of care the provide to patients, constantly raising the bar.

This session will briefly cover the role of data in the current healthcare environment, and how those responsible for any aspect of data management, from users to developers to stewards and governing bodies, are being impacted. The Six Sigma methodology and related statistical approaches will be introduced. Examples of applying these techniques to identify and resolve data management challenges, such as those noted above, will be presented. Finally, the session will seek to identify potential uses for these approaches to more broad challenges of interest to data professionals, regardless of industry.

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Mr. Peter Richard Benson is the Founding and Executive Director of the Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA). The association was founded in 1999 to develop and promote the implementation of co-operative solutions for the unambiguous exchange of information. Peter has enjoyed a long career in data driven systems starting with early work on debugging Vulcan the precursor of what became dBase, one of the very first relational database applications designed for the personal computer market. Peter went on to design WordStar Messenger, one of the very first commercial electronic mail software applications which included automated high to low bit conversion to allow eight bit word-processing formatting codes to pass through the early seven bit UNIX email systems. Peter received a British patent in 1992 covering the use of automated email to update distributed databases. From 1994 to 1998 Peter chaired the ANSI committee responsible for the development of EDI standards for product data (ASC X12E). Peter was responsible for the design; development and global promotion of the UNSPSC as an international commodity classification for spend analysis and procurement. Most recently, in pursuit of a faster, better and lower cost method for obtaining and validating master data, Peter designed and oversaw the development of the eOTD, eDRR and eGOR as open registries of terminology, data requirements and organizations mirrored on the NATO cataloging system. Peter is also the project leader for ISO 8000 (data quality) and ISO 22745 (open technical dictionaries). Peter is recognized as an expert on the creation, maintenance and distribution of master data, and the automatic rendering of high quality multilingual descriptions from master data that are at the heart of today’s ERP applications and the high speed and high relevance text search engines that we have come to depend on. Peter is a proponent of open standards for data portability and long term data preservation. Peter works to focus international attention on open metadata and how its use in software applications protects an organization’s rights to their own data as well as on the importance of data provenance, the ability to track the origin of data.

Session Topic: ISO 8000 Data Quality

We are an information dependent society and while we know that good data does not guarantee good information we also know that quality information can only be based on quality data. Every event, every individual, every organization, all locations, goods and services are represented by data. Before we can attempt to validate the accuracy of the data in terms of its representation of the real world, the data must exist in a form that we can process and it must be labeled in a way that gives it meaning. Finally, the data must meet the requirements for which it is intended to be used. These are the fundamental characteristics of data that determine its quality. These characteristics also determine data portability, the ability to move data from one application to another while protecting an organization’s rights to its own data and that allow the meaning of data to be safely preserved as it moves over time from one electronic media to another and from one application to another. As we migrate towards an increasingly dynamic Event Driven Architecture (EDA) and interdependent Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), the quality of master data, data that describes individuals, organizations, locations, goods and services or the who, what and where, becomes critical as does our ability to track the provenance of the individual elements of master data in our own systems. ISO 8000 is the international standard that defines the requirements for quality data. Understanding this landmark standard and how it can be used to objectively measure data quality as well as to contract for data and data services is an important first step in developing any information quality and data governance strategy.

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Tom Haughey is considered one of the four founding fathers of Information Engineering in America. He has specialized in data management since 1983 in both consulting and training. He has focused on practical and rapid development methods. For over two decades he has been delivering successful data management solutions in the area of information architecture, business intelligence, master data management, database, data modeling, data warehousing and OLTP (On-line transaction processing). He has worked in many industries such as insurance, consumer products, finance, government and pharmaceutical. His courses on data management, data warehousing, and rapid development have been delivered to Fortune 1000 companies around the world. He has worked on the development of seven different CASE tools, over 40,000 copies of which have been sold to date. He was formerly Chief Technology Officer for the Pepsi Bottling Group and Director of Enterprise Data Warehousing for Pepsico. He was also formerly Vice President of Technology for Computer Systems Advisers, who marketed the CASE tools called POSE and SILVERRUN. He wrote his own CASE tool in 1984. He formerly worked for IBM for 17 years as a Senior Project Manager. He is an author of many articles on Data Management, Information Engineering and Data Warehousing, such as The ROI of Data Modeling. He was a contributor to DMReview’s Ask The Experts Column and to CA’s Erwin blog.
 

Session Topic: NOSQL

NOSQL translates to “No SQL”, but more appropriately to “Not Only SQL”. NOSQL database management systems (DBMSs ) are a new class of DBMSs that differ from classic relational database management systems in some significant ways. Their main characteristics are:

The original focus of NOSQL was modern web-scale databases. The movement commenced in early 2009 and is growing rapidly. These data stores may not require fixed table schemas. They usually avoid joins. They usually scale horizontally. They are often referred to as a form of structured storage. Proponents of NOSQL consider RDBMSs as a subset within them.

Other characteristics of NOSQL are:  

 Database developers all know the ACID acronym. It says that database transactions should be:

An alternative to ACID is BASE:

The general idea is that rather than requiring consistency after every transaction, it is enough for the database eventually to be consistent. It’s like “closing out the books.” It’s OK to use stale data, and it’s OK to give approximate answers.

This presentation will define the above trends and characteristics, and ask the key question: Does data architecture play a role?

 



 

SCHEDULE: 

8:30 - 9:00      Registration

9:00 - 9:15       Introduction

9:15 - 10:15    Stan Taylor - Dr. Strangedata

10:30 - 12:45  Tom Haughey - NOSql Part I

11:45 - 12:30  Lunch - Pizza provided!

12:30 - 1:15    Tom Haughey - NOSql Part II

1:30 - 2:30      Peter Benson ISO 8000

3:00 - 3:30       DAMA Board - Wrap up and Highlights of the next Meeting

 

Please RSVP to Lisa Cummins by Friday, January 6th, so we can arrange adequate seating, handouts of presentations, and refreshments. Registration opens at 8:30 AM; the meeting will begin at 9:00 AM. The meeting will be held at: 

Towers Perrin

1500 Market Street ( Centre Square )

Philadelphia , PA 19103

Towers Perrin is at 1500 Market Street , or " Centre Square ", East Tower .  The building has entrances at the corner of 15th and Market and on 16th Street .  Please check-in at the East Tower security desk in the lobby when you arrive.  

The security official will ask you for a photo id.

Driving

From the New Jersey Turnpike: Take NJ Turnpike to EXIT 4 and follow signs to Route 73 North approx. 1 mile to Route 38 West. Follow approx. 6 miles to cross Benjamin Franklin Bridge and follow signs to Vine Street (76W). Follow Vine Street approx. 1-1/4 mile, Turn left onto N. 15th Street. Turn right onto John F. Kennedy Boulevard, turn left onto N. 17th Street, and turn left onto Market Street .

From the Pennsylvania Turnpike or Schuylkill Expressway: Take PA Turnpike to Exit 24 Philadelphia/Valley Forge Exit and follow signs to I-76 East (Schuylkill Expressway): follow I-76 East for approx. 18 miles to Camden/Center City Exit (this exit is on the left). Follow the 23rd Street exit towards Ben Franklin Parkway. Keep left at the fork in the ramp. Stay straight to go onto Winter Street. Turn right onto North 21st Street. Turn left onto Market Street.

From Points North via I-95: Exit at the Center City exit and take 676 West. Exit 676 at the Broad Street Exit. This puts you on 15th Street going south. Turn right onto John F. Kennedy Boulevard. Turn left onto N 17th Street. Turn left onto Market Street.

Parking Garages

Center Square: Continue on 15th Street to Walnut Street. Turn right, then right from Walnut Street onto 16th Street. The entrance is on the right after crossing Chestnut Street.

Liberty Place: Turn right from 15th Street onto Arch Street, then left on 17th Street. The entrance is on the left after crossing Market Street. There may be more parking available at the Liberty Place garage. Fees for either garage are $17 or more.

Other Garages: 1500 Market Street (entrance on 16th Street near Ranstead Street), 1616 Sansom Street, 1616 Chancellor Street, 15th and Sansom Street (NW corner).

Train

All Septa trains stop at Suburban Station (JFK Boulevard between 16th and 17th Streets). Walk south to Market Street.

 

Networking/ Discussions

Besides the formal presentations, networking is an important way to share information on tools, methodologies, and successes. If you can, plan to stay for awhile after the meeting ends at 7:30 PM to spend some time getting to know one another and sharing our work stories.

 

 

Attendance Fee: members FREE, non-members $25.00. Annual Membership (April 1 to March 31) available at meeting registration, or in advance from the chapter treasurer.

To register to attend a DAMA Philadelphia/Delaware Valley meeting or to receive chapter membership information, please contact an officer via e-mail or phone.

 

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