BWIT Presents: Leveraging Data for Value

Description

Leveraging Data for Value: We constantly interact with data, often without even realizing it. Understanding how to extract value from data can seem daunting, but anyone can grasp the essence of a data set with AI and some essential data skills. We will explore: -How to generate value through data -Find insights available in every data set -Use AI to enhance our data approach -Use essential data skills to investigate -Learn strategies for maintaining relevant skills in an everchanging environment.

About Robin Hunt:

Robin Hunt has spent 20 years+ inspiring people to think something new about their everyday work life with data. As co-founder and partner of ThinkData Solutions, Inc., she strives to leave a lasting impact in data analytics and beyond through her unwavering commitment to empower others through education and data. She encourages people to invest in themselves and never stop learning. Along with her business partner Daniel Bishop, Robin has built a woman- and minority-owned business based in Birmingham, Alabama whose impact extends nationally and internationally. 

She is the author of the Official CompTIA Data+ Content and she is the co-author of the Official CompTIA Data Systems+ Content. ThinkData offers training for these certifications as an authorized training organization.

Robin has created customized curricula that offer a path to a data analytics career. She has developed effective, practical courses for LinkedIn Learning, including Career Essentials in Data Analysis by Microsoft and LinkedIn, the data analyst career learning path of the Microsoft Global Skills Initiative, the collaboration of Linkedin, Microsoft, and GitHub to offer free skills development learning. 

Her commitment to education and data extends to an ongoing partnership with the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education and the Alabama Department of Education. ThinkData provides datasets that meet the requirements of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Acts to a research team that includes the Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, UAB School of Education, and the University of Alabama. 

She is a member of the State of Alabama Office of Education & Workforce Statistics Advisory Board, a member of the Alabama Committee on Credentialing and Career Pathways’ Information Technology Technical Advisory Committee and is a Microsoft Certified Learning Partner and a Microsoft Certified Trainer. 

ThinkData has created a federally registered data analyst apprenticeship, the first of its kind in Alabama, to develop data talent pipeline that is needed to move organizations forward.