Sam Held

Data Governance leader and quantitative analysis geek. Recovering program evaluation PhD.

[Sam Held @samheld15]

@RJGilliard @gilliardgroup Congratulations- well deserved.

[Sam Held @samheld15]

@academic_exit In the cover letter, include a Reviewer #2 critique of the job posting. And use your full 50+ page cv as the resume.

[Sam Held @samheld15]

Great thread! I would add the NSF’s National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (https://t.co/A7z6yA0QGi). I assume it is on the list but I do not recall it.

[Temperance Godwin | Data Analyst @Roshethequeen]

Websites to get datasets for your projects
1. KAGGLE: https://t.co/13kfh9Pqsr
2. GOOGLE DATASET SEARCH: https://t.co/MXSsY9Jquf...
3. FIVETHIRTYEIGHT: https://t.co/qirX14MOFo
4. https://t.co/IlzyYU8WSr: https://t.co/CkDGNvVaRe
5. GITHUB: https://t.co/BUNFxfH2GQ

[Sam Held @samheld15]

@catgyoung Program Manager in Enterprise Architecture group (IT Dept) at Tennessee Valley Authority. I own the policy and standards programs among other initiatives that support the foundation of IT at the country’s largest public electric utility providing power to over 10 million people.

[Sam Held @samheld15]

What a cool visualization and attention to detail

[Kirk Goldsberry @kirkgoldsberry]

All The King’s Buckets.

[Sam Held @samheld15]

@academic_exit Proposals written, $$ awarded, budgets (# & size) managed, supervision of personnel, regulatory compliance, project management, technical & non-technical writing, any computer code written, patents earned, etc. I earned my PhD while employed let me know if I can help.

[Sam Held @samheld15]

@btahmassebi I would ask people in @AAPOR about the survey methodology literature since they tend to write most of it.

[Sam Held @samheld15]

@BenHanowell Academics need to stretch experiment/data set from one grant into multiple papers to get the next grants. Fighting for limited resources. On the other hand, given the gap from submission to publication for papers, grant deadlines have probably passed. Data in storage or a thesis.

[Sam Held @samheld15]

@BenHanowell Then you should read up on gluons, strong force, and asymptotic freedom. That makes photons and electromagnetic force seem like child’s play.

[Sam Held @samheld15]

@BenHanowell I have seen that data but it was years ago and I cannot remember for certain. There was a faculty salary survey - list of possibles: AAUP, AAHE, Chronicle of Higher Ed, or CHERI (Cornell). Wrote my dissertation on early career faculty.

[Kevin Flerlage @FlerlageKev]

New Viz...for our company (@RDScientist) Tableau Public Page - Median Rent by County.
See the ranges in the map & histogram, see it change by # of bedrooms, & then see how your county ranks against the others. Mine is more expensive than 76% of counties. https://t.co/3ZqCAO2gS4

[Sam Held @samheld15]

@BenHanowell So many questions like how many of these are re-posts? What is the success rate of what appears to be “post and prayer” instead of pipeline entry positions? Are these back-filling jobs lost to the Great Resignation wave or new positions coming out of the “new normal” work?

[Sam Held @samheld15]

@BenHanowell Because what is the difference to a manager for an employee with 21% and one with 24% attrition risk? Only causes them to try to re-engineer and outperform my model.

[Sam Held @samheld15]

@BenHanowell Lots of great questions, but humans are complex, I hate individual predictions esp quantifying them. I know I do not have all varIables - changed % to category - high, med, & low. Then I focused on highest risk people for KTR planning and job categories for pipeline planning.

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[Sam Held @samheld15]

@JCMaierhofer @BrustersFresh Nice! Love seeing the DFB jersey. Tough loss.

[Sam Held @samheld15]

Proud dad moment! Congratulations to all 15 Haslam Scholars.

[UT Knoxville @UTKnoxville]

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[Sam Held @samheld15]

@VizGenie @katebrown_5 It is basically a tool relating objects to each other, which is what data lineage and governance is all about. You relate your data elements and related the source systems to Tableau workbook/server and the various ways it can be extracted. I like it a lot.