Joe Rohner

The increasing velocity and variety of data generated by the Department of Defense and used by the modeling, simulation, and training community demands holistic data science approaches performed in near-real time. How can you discover multiple innovative, unbiased, cutting-edge solutions in just three days? Host your own Data Science Hackathon challenge! Data Science Hackathons are events that have been successfully used by the US Army and US Navy to incorporate external open-source tools… Show more

The increasing velocity and variety of data generated by the Department of Defense and used by the modeling, simulation, and training community demands holistic data science approaches performed in near-real time. How can you discover multiple innovative, unbiased, cutting-edge solutions in just three days? Host your own Data Science Hackathon challenge! Data Science Hackathons are events that have been successfully used by the US Army and US Navy to incorporate external open-source tools coupled with super-smart data scientists to solve challenges impeding their success. Data Science Hackathons are designed to leverage cutting-edge data science tools, cloud computing environments, and resources from industry and academia to help solve an organization’s most challenging data problems. These events scale a data science workforce in a very short period of time to focus on challenges impeding a mission’s success. This enables new perspectives on complex problems with crowd sourced approaches and solutions, with little cost to the sponsoring organization. As a beacon for talent, Data Science Hackathons also serve as catalysts to accelerate and transform how enterprises engage problems and provide 365 days’ worth of work in three days. Our presentation will end with an overview of the 2017 I/ITSEC’s hackathon, sponsored by US Army TRADOC G-2, where contestants successfully processed 288 unstructured data files (video, text, audio) in less than 4 hours, beating the baseline processing time by a factor of three, and used topic modeling to extract the true value from this corpus of information. US ARMY TRADOC G-2 will share how their organizations have implemented the participant’s solutions and how their organization has changed as result of the event. Show less

Machine learning, a branch of data science, is transforming the way we analyze and automate training and simulation. The secret is that machine learning is only as effective as the data used to train these algorithms. As a result, organizations, leaders, and the workforce, must be ready to embrace the technical and organizational changes needed to effectively operationalize their data and utilize machine learning. In this tutorial, you’ll learn more about this exciting field, discover how to… Show more

Machine learning, a branch of data science, is transforming the way we analyze and automate training and simulation. The secret is that machine learning is only as effective as the data used to train these algorithms. As a result, organizations, leaders, and the workforce, must be ready to embrace the technical and organizational changes needed to effectively operationalize their data and utilize machine learning. In this tutorial, you’ll learn more about this exciting field, discover how to prepare your organization for it, hear about from a DoD organization that is embracing Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI), and experience live demos of these approaches in action. Show less

Tableau is spectacular--but are your data and organization ready? How about red tape and regulatory burdens? We'll talk through the real logistical and structural barriers to implementing Tableau effectively, and provide success stories of how we've helped Federal and Defense organizations get from raw, siloed data, to powerful, effective dashboards. Armed with Tableau and empowered with a focused strategy, analysts and leaders alike can harness their data in a nimble and agile way.

Delivered a 60 minute presentation to the Office of Research Methodology during their "ask a methodologist" series at the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). We outlined how the evolutionary biology has influenced the role of data analysis in modern organizations and the role that visualizing information can have in the modern the organization - highlighting the unique challenge that the federal government faces in adopting and deploying new technologies in this space.

Tableau software and Booz Allen Hamilton are helping the United States government leverage the power of data to arrive at Insights that Drive Change. With an abundance of data and a lack of time, our Federal agencies are looking for data, tools, and people (Insight) to help them leverage the power of data, clear a path, or educate its employees (Drive). With the right combination of Insight and Drive, an organization can produce better outcomes and have a fulfilling relationship with their… Show more

Tableau software and Booz Allen Hamilton are helping the United States government leverage the power of data to arrive at Insights that Drive Change. With an abundance of data and a lack of time, our Federal agencies are looking for data, tools, and people (Insight) to help them leverage the power of data, clear a path, or educate its employees (Drive). With the right combination of Insight and Drive, an organization can produce better outcomes and have a fulfilling relationship with their data (Change). Show less

Delivered a 45 minute presentation to senior leaders and executives across the federal sector that outlined how modern data visualization tools such as Tableau can enable new insights within your organization that unlock value and drive change. We presented a number of use cases from across the DoD, Federal and Corporate business segments.