Kristin Saling | Data Science & People Analytics
If you manage people, you and data should be friends. Let me introduce you.
Everyone who knows me knows I’m ridiculously excited about attending this year’s Disney Data and Analytics Conference #ddac2019 and even though it has only just kicked off, I’m already learning SO much. Pretty sure my brain will explode at the end of Day 1. But one of the things I have been most impressed with… Read More
As I make the rounds speaking to the leadership in my organization, many have concerns about the state of our analytic capability. I have heard many times that “we don’t have predictive capability.” When I’ve dug into this comment, I find that 1) it isn’t true, and 2) predictive capability isn’t what the speaker was… Read More
If you’re working in government, in the DC area, and looking to integrate more data science and advanced analytics into your industry, you should check out Data Driven Government on September 25th! DDG is a one day symposium (with a couple adjacent days of workshops available) to share best practices and techniques that advance the… Read More
Reading… This month’s book is The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge. It’s an older book and one I’ve read several times, but my boss keeps asking me how to set up a framework to transition from an industrial age organization to a data driven organization. That… Read More
Reading… This month’s book is Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler. It covers concepts on how to use incentives, positive reinforcement, and indirect suggestions influence behavior and decision making in the workplace. My former boss recommended it to help generate some ideas for creating workplace incentives, and… Read More
Before you can work on developing a concept for use, you first have to get down your terms of reference. Here’s a basic primer on AI! Read More
Reading… This month’s book is Work Rules! by Laszlo Bock, a former VP for Google who recently set up a company that specializes in behavior “nudging” using data analytics. It was recommended by a friend and colleague and endorsed by both my current boss and former boss, so I went into it hoping to be… Read More
Back when I was an assistant professor of systems engineering, attending and presenting in conferences wasn’t just an assumption, it was an expectation. You were going to go present. You were going to publish. It was just a part of your professional growth. Now that I’m far more practitioner than academic, my supervisors tend to… Read More
It’s been fascinating watching Amazon preparing Crystal City – ahem, National Landing – for it’s new HQ2 complex. Promising a workspace for 25,000 people, almost as many as work within the Pentagon itself, the company has a lot of work to do. And no, not just building a new building. Because when you bring 25,000… Read More
Before I start delving too deeply into some of these topics and some of my ideas for using them to upgrade your human resources programs {among other things, but people analytics is my favorite subject}, I want to lay down some foundations and make sure we’re all talking about the same thing. This is also… Read More
