Building Data Culture and Community

A healthy data culture is foundational to the success and endurance of any data transformation. It’s the intangible that allows some organizations to do unique and exciting things while others find drudgery under data testament disbelief. The value of data can only be seen through careful curation and cultural development. It requires training data and non-data professionals through staff turnover, heavy workloads, lack of understanding, low motivation, and many other data disincentives. How do you knit data values into the organization’s cultural fabric? We’ll discuss how to weave data culture and community building through your data program implementation for sustained organizational practices and improvement.

Through practical examples, this data leader discussion will center on the following:

• Culture Elements
• Community Identification
• Data Dependency
• Building Data Values
• Establishing Data Resources
• Evangelical Data

Speaker: Kiersten Farmer

In her role as the City of Henderson Data Scientist, Kiersten Farmer helps local governments succeed. As a data professional with over 13 years of experience in public administration, her current work focuses on maximizing operational and strategic benefits from technology and information systems. She has developed a comprehensive method to measure and evaluate operations, communicate operational and strategic insights, and analyze administrative processes and key performance indicators from a data management perspective. Furthermore, she cultivates a data culture that emphasizes data literacy, stewardship, and governance, leading to improved performance. As an alumna of Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University and the University of Maryland, Kiersten is obsessed with discovering and cultivating novel ideas. She continues her studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.