[Sora] SORA event reminder with address...

[MCCOY Jan - ODE]

Seriously, I think this is the final reminder....

The event is schedule from 2:00 to 4:00 pm today in room 260 at the Labor and Industries Building, 350 Winter St. NE, Salem.

We'll be looking forward to seeing you there.

Jan


Jan D. McCoy, PhD, OPMA
Vice-Chair, State of Oregon Research Academy
Oregon Department of Education<http://www.ode.state.or.us/>
255 Capitol St NE ∙ Salem, OR ∙ 97310-1300
jan.mccoy at state.or.us<mailto:jan.mccoy at state.or.us>

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Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2016 11:21 AM
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Subject: [Sora] SORA event reminder with address...

The State of Oregon Research Academy is excited to confirm our fall event:

A Demonstration and Discussion in Data Visualization

Thursday, October 27th, room 260 at the Labor and Industries Building, 350 Winter St. NE, Salem

Get New Ideas - See what others are doing and walk away with new to you strategies
Enhance your message and increase retention - everyone has different styles, sometimes a small change in how you present the data has the biggest impact on the audience
Find solutions for the visualization challenges you face - discuss options with others and find a solution that will work in your environment
Explore software solutions - experience new ways to use the software you already have and discover software options that might be what your agency's been looking for


Topics:

Creating Infographics Using Piktochart
Presented by: Will Burchard, Usability Analyst, Oregon Employment Department
Piktochart is a web-based program perfect for easily designing and creating professional-level infographics. The Oregon Employment Department uses Piktochart to help visualize large datasets and help customers focus in on the important stories. In the past, we've used Piktochart for displaying wage data, unemployment data, and minimum wage data. Piktochart can even be used to create a nice set of slides for a formal presentation. Best of all, it is incredibly user-friendly and intuitive!

Visualizing Data and Patterns with Online Mapping Technology
Presented by: Joshua Tanner, GIS Analyst / Web Administrator, Oregon Geospatial Enterprise Office
The web has become the primary medium by which we share and view data. Much of that data is associated with 'place' and can be difficult to visualize without the use of maps. Recent advancements in web based mapping tools have enabled State agencies to analyze, build, and share maps more easily to the public. This presentation focuses on the techniques, tools, and resources that are available to the State to visualize and share data with online maps!

Building a Dashboard style report using Excel
Presented by: Spencer Peacock, Market Analyst, Oregon DCBS, Division of Financial Regulation
High level overview of the dashboard concept and some neat tips & tricks on how Excel can be used to create a versatile and visually clean report without the use of VBA/Macro's.

Meet Tableau: Your Data, Only Hotter
Presented by: Felicia Bechtoldt, Economist, Oregon Employment Department
Data visualization is both an art and a science. Join me in exploring Tableau, a business intelligence software, that won the "2008 Best Business Intelligence solution" by Software and Information Industry Association, "Best Overall in Data Visualization" by the DM Review and "Best of 2005 for Data Analysis" by PC Magazine. Tableau is a great tool to visualize masses of multidimensional data, helping you identify trends and locate deviations that merit further analysis. I will demo how we - the Oregon Employment Department research staff - use Tableau in our research and data visualization purposes.

Preparing content for infographic design service
Presented by: Carlee Justis, Graphic Designer, Oregon Publishing & Distribution
Information graphics or infographics can be complicated to produce. Within Oregon state government, agencies are reaching out to the Department of Administrative Services' Publishing & Distribution office to help them turn their data into informative and professional infographics. Get valuable information on how to submit your content for design service, what kinds of information works well with data visualization, and how infographics can help reach your customers. Plus, find out about other solutions Publishing & Distribution offers that can help your program succeed.

Replicating Graphs with Excel Macros
Presented by: Jan McCoy, PhD, Specialist, Research and Planning, Oregon Department of Education
Oregon's 197 school districts produce a wealth of data describing local conditions and outcomes. In support of district planning, the Oregon Department of Education produces a set of 28 graphs per district as PDFs. Using macros, a single initial graph can be replicated across all districts in less than 2 minutes. Learn this technique to simplify and improve your processes.




Jan D. McCoy, PhD, OPMA<https://www.oregon.gov/das/HR/Documents/PM_OPMCP.pdf>
Specialist, Research and Planning |  Data, Operations and Grant Management
Office of Teaching and Learning |  Oregon Department of Education<http://www.ode.state.or.us/>
* 255 Capitol St NE ∙ Salem, OR ∙ 97310-1300
*(503) 947-5704 |7 (503) 378-5156 | * (503) 999-6337 | * jan.mccoy at state.or.us<mailto:jan.mccoy at state.or.us>

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