Live Webinar August 17th, 2016 – 2:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Human Capital Institute

This session will begin with author & futurist Dr. Karie Willyerd (LinkedIn profile) and her new book, Stretch: How to Future Proof Yourself for Tomorrow’s Workplace.

Executives, talent managers, human resource professionals and IT change champions should attend this webcast to gain leading-edge knowledge and practices for managing talent.

Together with thought leaders, consultants, and technical experts, participants learn the latest on performance ratings, continuous performance management, and social collaboration along with trends that are shaping the workplace.

Note: SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 Professional Development Credits (PDCs) towards SHRM-CP℠ or SHRM-SCP℠ Certifications.

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Stretch Your Talent Mindset:
Learn How To Future Proof Yourself &
Your Organization

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Live Webinar August 16th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

R is the fastest growing advanced analytics language with a vibrant community of data scientists, analysts, and researchers numbering in the millions who contribute thousands of packages to open source. But the data and processing limitations associated with R are real challenges. As real-world data grows exponentially, analysts find themselves wrestling with billions of records to analyze complex relationships to tackle new business problems.

Join Teradata Roger Fried, Senior Data Scientist and Brian Kreeger, Senior Data Scientist and local R User Group organizer, with over 30 collective years of experience designing and implementing big data analytic solutions in healthcare, finance and retail.

This webcast discussion will cover the following topics:

• Understanding and building an architecture to scale R
• Leveraging R data science libraries for business analytics
• Converting and operationalizing an existing R script

Presenters:

Brian Kreeger (LinkedIn profile) is a Data Scientist with the Advanced Analytics Strategy and Adoption team, helping Teradata Aster’s customers drive their Analytical Mission by providing guidance and education. Brian has 20+years experience developing & implementing solutions to complex business problems, with experience in healthcare, finance and retail. He has a MA in Mathematics from Eastern New Mexico University.

Roger Fried (LinkedIn profile) is a Senior Data Scientist within Teradata Aster’s Advanced Analytics Strategy & Adoption Team. He has an MBA in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin and is completing his Masters in Predictive Analytics from DePaul University. His primary role is to drive big data analytics adoption within some of Aster’s customers.

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Scalable Data Science With R

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Live Webinar August 11th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

Something as simple as picking a color palette is often the very thing that scares developers away from diving into design.

Design decisions are so open-ended and exposed, and everyone’s a critic. And if your colors clash, there’s no compiler throwing an error or tests failing to let you know.

No wonder amazing developers clam up when it’s time to make design decisions, deferring to “someone creative, who knows more about design.”

Natalya Shelburne (LinkedIn profile) breaks down color theory basics the developer way by:

• Abstracting away her domain knowledge as an artist into variables and functions and…
• Sharing that information—to demystify design decisions, revealing them to be:
  • Logical,
  • Predictable, and …
  • Driven by principles that anyone can learn.

Along the way, Natalya explores wavelengths, old-school fine art resources, and code code code. This isn’t a talk about how colors make us feel—this is science.

Key questions include:

• What should you do when someone says “make it pop”?
• How can you improve accessibility with intentional use of color?
• Why are most “call to action” buttons a warm color like red or orange?
• Why shouldn’t you use #000000 on your website?
• Why are red and green color schemes troublesome in design?
• What happens if you mix exactly equal parts red and green? How about blue and orange?
• Why do highlights seem to always go on the tops of buttons?
• Why do certain colors look good together?
• Why does a color look good in a color picker but bad when you use it on your site?
• Why does using more white space make things look so much better?
• Why are Sass variables and color functions such awesome tools for developers?

 Join Natalya Shelburne as she demystifies the User Experience World of  the right color choices.

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User Experience (UX):
Practical Color Theory For People Who Code

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Live Webinar August 2nd, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

In this session Alexander Dymo discusses what really makes Ruby and Rails applications slow, what can make them faster, and the steps you should take to optimize performance.

Presenter: Alexander Dymo (LinkedIn profile) is an entrepreneur, Y Combinator alum, software executive, free software developer; and the author of the bestselling Ruby optimization book; Ruby Performance Optimization: Why Ruby is Slow, and How to Fix It .

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.2 Define Activities
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 9.3 Develop Project Team

As a Category C, ‘Self Directed Learning’, activity remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder.’

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Ruby & Rails Performance Optimization

Live Webinar August 2nd, 2016, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Whether you aspire to present at an upcoming TechWell conference or you simply want to feel confident speaking in front of a crowd, this web seminar can help you achieve your goals.

Based on his popular conference session, TechWell’s own Lee Copeland Software Quality Engineer and author of  A Practitioner’s Guide to Software Test Design

will offer some tips to help you down the path toward becoming a better speaker.

He will also explain the process of choosing session speakers for TechWell conferences, including the STAR testing conferences and the collocated Better Software, Agile Development, and DevOps conferences.

Attend this web seminar to learn how to:

• Identify your Big Message
• Develop compelling content
• Prepare informative, impactful slides
• Be ready when things go wrong (and they will go wrong)

Presenter:  Lee Copeland (LinkedIn profile) Conference Program Manager TechWell Corp; is a sought-after speaker at software conferences in the United States & abroad with 40+ years experience as an information systems professional in commercial &nonprofit organizations, Lee Copeland has held technical & managerial positions in app development, software testing, and process improvement. At TechWell, Lee has developed and taught numerous training courses on software development and testing issues and . He is the author of the popular reference book A Practitioner’s Guide to Software Test Design.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing Monitoring & Control
Knowledge Areas: 10 – Communications

• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 10.2 Manage Communications
• 13.1 Identify Stakeholders
• 13.3 Manage Stakeholder Engagement

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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Conference Speaking 101

Live Webinar July 28th, 2016 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
By: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

In this presentation Anna Khodijah (LinkedIn profile) will elaborate the typical project management practices in Indonesia.

This information will be invaluable for professionals and global project managers who want to succeed in the emerging market of Indonesia.

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Project Management In Indonesia:
How Global Companies & Indonesian Stakeholders
Can Collaborate & Succeed

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