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David Poynter, Business Analyst, Retired IBM Corporation

David Poynter, IBM Retired, self proclaimed Data Scientist and freelance Data Alchemist. David Poynter is recently retired from IBM, where he was most recently a Senior Program Manager, working on how data from operational and external sources helps describe and can be used to improve the overall client Client Experience. During his 38 years he held a number of positions, spending the last 22 years working in various management and professional roles in Client Satisfaction and Excellence for Canada and then as a part of the Global team. David has a lifelong passion for using data to drive process improvement in a proactive manner. He strongly believes in transferring knowledge and mentoring others and exploring the art of the possible.

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How Anyone Can Make Chicken Soup Out of Chicken Sh*t — Lessons from 20+ Years of Analysis
Track: Accuracy
David Poynter, Business Analyst, Retired IBM Corporation

In your current role, how often do you actually sit down and work with your data? I mean really work with it. Slice and dice it, organize and analyze it, and then try to tell a tale from it. If you are like me, this can sometimes take inordinate amounts of time and effort… and even hair pulling.

This presentation will cover my adventures with data over the past 20+ years. Day in, day out, answering questions from everyone, managers to executives, struggling with batch jobs, reports, extracts, data analysis tools, and even the data itself. No matter who you are, where you work, and the type of data you deal with, analyzing is almost the same; everyone can take away something from this presentation.