Uncover Untold Stories in Your Data: A Deep Dive on Data Profiling
How well do you know your data? Organizations are discovering the value in their data—as evidence of what they have done and a clue to how they can improve the bottom line. With the increase in analytics, it is no secret that there are more eyes on the data. And analyzing data can give valuable insight into patterns that drive efficiencies or errors. It is important to use this information and make sure it is being used correctly. However, excavating the data is not always as simple as it seems. Catherine Cruz Agosto and Shauna Ayers are your guides as they define data profiling and its importance, delve into different strategies you can use, and discuss how to get the most out of your data. Come and learn useful tools and strategies you can take back to get to know and better use your data.
Catherine Cruz Agosto found that her software engineering experience at Baxter Healthcare and Boeing-subsidiary Insitu provided an excellent foundation for finding more effective and user-friendly approaches to complex technical problems. Catherine has developed more efficient and innovative data quality testing solutions at healthcare intermediary Availity, expanding their automated data quality testing processes to accommodate diverse and dissimilar data sources, facilitating analysis, testing, and controls for data integration, analytics, and healthcare data reporting.
Shauna Ayers has been untangling the Gordian knots of IT systems for more than seventeen years, analyzing data systems and testing both software and data quality in the manufacturing, medical device, and healthcare industries. Shauna found her passion in developing creative solutions for the analysis and testing of sensitive and highly-regulated data sets at industry leaders such as Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida (now Florida Blue), Vistakon (a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson), and Availity.