Story Telling with Derrick Turk

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"What happens in Vegas should stay in Vegas: honest story-telling with data"

Las Vegas, Nevada. It's a vast over-21 amusement park - and a masterclass in how to communicate narratives about data and statistics less than honestly. In this session, we'll consider how - and how not - to honestly and effectively share narratives discovered in data.

Derrick W. Turk is the founder of and a principal consultant at terminus, a consultancy and custom software development organization launched in 2013. The company's focus is on solving difficult problems with data-driven solutions in energy, finance, and other industries.

We provide expertise and implementation assistance to solve challenges like:

- Applying machine learning to characterize and optimize asset performance

- Developing robust data architectures to provide high-quality, validated, and fast data access to data science tools and projects

- Implementing software libraries and APIs for high-performance and robust engineering calculations

- Creating strategies to maximize the value extracted from existing data sources

- Choosing among the bewildering array of technologies available for data management, data science and machine learning, and software development