Susan Walsh - The Classification Guru

The Classification Guru Ltd

I love improving the quality of procurement spend data, giving teams clarity so they can make better business decisions and cost savings.

Why not let me take the pain out of laborious data issues and make your life easier?

Whether it's a small or large data set, the accuracy can be improved by identifying classification errors, conflicts or gaps. I can provide a data verification service to efficiently find and correct these in a fraction of the time it would take you or a team member.

And a crucial part of having accurate data is also working with a comprehensive taxonomy, something that can be easily overlooked. I can provide a taxonomy development service to ensure you have all the vital areas covered for the greatest visibility - job done!

If you struggle with the time, resources or willingness to tackle your data, why not get in touch to see how I can make your life easier.

Founder/MD (Mistress of Data)

I love improving the quality of procurement spend data, giving teams clarity so they can make better business decisions and cost savings.

Why not let me take the pain out of laborious data issues and make your life easier?

Whether it's a small or large data set, the accuracy can be improved by identifying classification errors, conflicts or gaps.  I can provide a data verification service to efficiently find and correct these in a fraction of the time it would take you or a team member.

And a crucial part of having accurate data is also working with a comprehensive taxonomy, something that can be easily overlooked.  I can provide a taxonomy development service to ensure you have all the vital areas covered for the greatest visibility - job done!

If you struggle with the time, resources or willingness to tackle your data, why not get in touch to see how I can make your life easier.

Founder

Data Collaboration Alliance

I am a member of the Advisory Committee at the Data Collaboration Alliance, a nonprofit organization that’s dedicated to establishing CONTROL as the basis for meaningful Data Ownership and global Collaborative Intelligence. Our approach of eliminating data silos and copy-based data integration is similar to how societies already protect the value of their currency, identities, and intellectual property - and it works for data, too. My fellow advisors include the Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation and the ex-CIO of Dropbox. I'm also a contributor to the Data Collaboration Community which offers open datasets, free tools, and free training in the data-centric skills of the future. Visit: https://www.datacollaboration.org/community

Advisory Committee / Instructor

Facet Publishing

Dirty data is a problem that costs businesses thousands, if not millions, every year. In organisations large and small across the globe you will hear talk of data quality issues. What you will rarely hear about is the consequences or how to fix it.

Between the Spreadsheets: Classifying and Fixing Dirty Data draws on classification expert Susan Walsh's decade of experience in data classification to present a fool-proof method for cleaning and classifying your data. The book covers everything from the very basics of data classification to normalisation, taxonomies and presents the author's proven COAT methodology, helping ensure an organisation's data is Consistent, Organised, Accurate and Trustworthy. A series of data horror stories outlines what can go wrong in managing data, and if it does, how it can be fixed.

After reading this book, regardless of your level of experience, not only will you be able to work with your data more efficiently, but you will also understand the impact the work you do with it has, and how it affects the rest of the organisation.

Written in an engaging and highly practical manner, Between the Spreadsheets gives readers of all levels a deep understanding of the dangers of dirty data and the confidence and skills to work more efficiently and effectively with it.

Author - Between the Spreadsheets

CONSTELLIA LIMITED

Connecting Professional Services Procurement people to the Consultancy Procurement Council

Membership Manager

Simfoni

+ Lead spend analytics project delivery across Europe & Middle East
+ Project Implementation​
+ Delivery of product demos
+ Development and delivery of training for Analytics team
+ Product development support
+ Spend analytics
+ Taxonomy development​

Senior Analytics Project Lead - Europe & Middle East

Highways England

Project Support Officer

Philips

Data Verification

+	Administration of product database
+	Working with cross functional teams to resolve issues
+	Develop and deliver training for business hubs to improve processes

Data Product Researcher

Coupa Software

+	Project managing multiple projects simultaneously ensuring all were delivered within time and on budget
+	Management of a team of 14 QA staff
+	Developed and implemented training plan and best practice documents
+	Recruit and train new staff
+	Ensuring consistent quality of work  produced by team

QA Manager

Spend360

+	QA, classification and review of data
+	Excellent attention to detail
+	Managing workload to tight deadlines

Data Services -QA

Fixer of dirty data ★ Spend data classification, supplier normalisation, and taxonomies ★ DataIQ100 x 2 ★DataIQ Data Champion 2022★ Author "Between the Spreadsheets" ★ Creator of COAT ★ TEDx - say NO to NO ★ DataVenger

Are you struggling to get reliable insights from your data?  Do you have duplicates, multiple versions of the same supplier or customer, and multiple date and address formats?  And is it saved in multiple different systems?

The Classification Guru can help.

If you’re in procurement, do you find it hard to see how much you are really spending with one supplier, and on what?  Have you got free text descriptions which mean you have multiple versions of the same item, often misspelt and not against the correct GL or categorisation? How can you make the best negotiations with your suppliers, the biggest cost savings, or manage your supplier list if you don’t have the correct information?

Or if you work in sales or marketing, is your CRM full of junk data, poorly formatted and even missing information, and maybe saved in multiple different systems?  Your team could be wasting time contacting redundant leads, or worse you could be sending out expensive print out to the same address twice, or addresses that don’t even exist.

We bring clarity and accuracy to data and help teams work more effectively and efficiently, finding cost savings through spend and time management, supporting better, more informed business decisions, delivering a strong ROI and delivering back to your organisation faster and more cost-effectively than using large consultancies or spend analytics providers.

While most people dread having to classify or cleanse data, my team and I love it! We are hugely passionate about providing clients with accurate and meaningful data, and because I have been doing this for a decade, I can do this much faster and more accurately than people who might look at their data infrequently.

We can help prevent costly mistakes from happening.

There are many solutions available to automate data classification, but these are never 100% accurate. I've developed a method that my team use to efficiently and accurately classify, cleanse and verify data to minimise the errors in the same amount of time.

When working with large volumes of data it's hard to spot these errors even if you know what you're looking for and especially in Excel, let alone if you don't. With my team and I’s knowledge, experience and tools we can do this for you, freeing up your internal resources.

Fix your dirty data now - www.theclassificationguru.com

Data Science Rex Pte. Ltd.

Data Science Rex is a team of data scientists that is focused on helping companies build up in-house data science capabilities in strategic areas so as to continuously reap the benefits of the data they have captured, continuously be effective and efficient.

Following are the services we provide:

Training - Identifying the training needs of each organization and provide targeted curriculum for talents to deploy data science into their organization. 

We provide training in data governance & management, machine learning & business applications, tools like R, Python, Tableau, and Power BI.

Consultancy - Identifying potential opportunities in the business operations, processes and strategic planning that can tap on data science to be better, matching business objectives to data. DSR also provide services in data audit and assessing data governance processes.

Mentoring - DSR believes data science is a journey and thus needs experienced professionals to provide a roadmap that can let organizations build internal capabilities, continuously tap on data science for business value.

DSR is part of SG SmartX Consortium.

Consultation Experience:
Consultant to a statutory board, to their internal teams participating in an internal analytics competition, consulting on the data, feasibility & analysis.

Participated Initiatives:
* Conducted 3 runs of Analytics and Visualization Training for Oil & Gas Industry (https://www.petroedgeasia.net/training/introduction-to-data-analytics-visualization/)
* Gave talks on Analytics to organizations such as NLB, CPF, BCA, IRAS, and SEMI SEA (manufacturing) 
* Market Research Revision - technical to business layman
* Data Visualization course for management consulting firm
* Conducted a R workshop for Data Science.
* Article Contributor to Learn@IBF - Learning Platform for Bankers (https://www.ibf.org.sg/programmes/Documents/Learn@IBF.pdf)
* Judging Panel for #BuidlingwithAI Hackathon (https://hackmakers.com/aihack/) & NTU-AI4IMPACT

Co-founder/Practicum Director

STARTUPSTORM

Building Data & Artificial Intelligence Capabilities for Startups mentoring under StartupStormAsia.
Building & Providing Reference Resources for Startup Founders

Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence Expert

AIMX

Providing consultation on AI development, implementation and adoption in the Southeast Asian region and beyond. Providing consultation in content delivered on AIMX platforms and building AI communities.

AI Trust & Community Advisor

AIinASIA.com

https://aiinasia.com/author/koo-ping-shung/

Guest Writer

ASEAN Applied Research Centre

Community Advisor

ETCIO South-East Asia

Providing thought leadership and advisory on conference content, specifically Artificial Intelligence, for the Annual #ETCIOSEAConclave Conference.

Advisory Board

SMU Academy

Co-teach the course of "Tableau: Unlocking Insights with Analytics I & II" 

- Helping participants to understand the possible functionalities and features of Tableau and how to use it to gain information and insights into the business of the organizations they work in.
Help participants to design and structure visualization that can aid business organization to gain insights from their data efficiently.

Teach "AI for Business" in Business Digitization & Transformation Programme to 5 cohorts
Guide and Mentor 3 Industry Projects

- Helping participants with the possibilities of Business Digitization from the perspective of Artificial Intelligence. Also shared the current landscape of AI and Data Science and how businesses is using them.

Instructor for Technology in Finance Immersion Programm (TFIP)

- Fundamentals of Data Analytics and Data Governance
- Building Data Analytics Requirements
- Building AI Requirements 
- Applying User Entity Behavioral Analytics

Instructor

Civil Service College

Trainer for the following courses:

- Data Analytics: Basic Principles & Its Applications
- Data Visualization for Effective Communications
- Data Analysis with Python
- Starting a Data Science Project
- Introduction to Machine Learning Techniques (Code Free)
- Are You Ready for AI? Delivering a Successful AI Project

Corporate Trainer

German Entrepreneurship Asia

Helping startups incubated in German Entrepreneurship Asia to strategize and build up their data science and artificial intelligence capabilities with talents from the South East Asia region.

Data Science & Artificial Intelligence Advisor (Asia)

Kinobi

Advising in the area of Data, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence & Data Science Advisor

SG LinkedIn Top Voice/Tech Community Lead/Speaker,Panelist,Advisor,Instructor,Mentor/ArtificialIntelligence/Building Capabilities&Ecosystem/Solving Intelligence,AGI/数据分析与人工智能/ACLP

Koo has traversed through data analytics, data science, and artificial intelligence in his career for the past 19 years.

With an MBA degree and vast experience, he is able to determine where possible values are from data collected. He does it differently by building internal capabilities, through training, consulting, and mentoring, allowing businesses to continuously take advantage of their data.

Uniquely, Koo is experienced in the full process of getting value from data, from data collection, management & governance to implementation of insights through strategy and business performance measurement. 

His research interest is in how an organization can build Data Science & Artificial Intelligence capabilities, Artificial General Intelligence, and Smart Cities with a focus on the standard of living.

Co-founded DataScience.Sg (grassroots community) in Nov 2013, growing it to more than 10,000 members (as at 2020). Former Chairman of Working Committee, Singapore SAS User Group. 

Conducted more than 2000 man-hours of related training mostly in Singapore and various countries and received average ratings of 4.4 (out of 5.0). Supervised Masters students on their data science project. Instructor and lecturer in various institutions such as NUS SCALE, SMU Academy, SUSS, and ESSEC. Chief Mentor & Trainer in SAS-IMDA Data Science Programme. 

Gave talks at NLB, BCA, IRAS. Facilitator for IDA Data Science MOOC Initiative (1st & 2nd Cohort). (http://bit.ly/1lLfj8s) - spoken to more than 200 people on Data Science. Appeared in an SG TV program, "Time Machine" (https://bit.ly/2jYEmMQ). Speaker at MicroElectronics Tech Asia (https://bit.ly/2QubPxj), SAS Bites &  SAS Forum (http://bit.ly/1vEvP4O). Facilitator at Data Literacy Bootcamp for Journalists organized by World Bank & IDA (https://bit.ly/2OlGEni). Presented papers at SAS Global Forum. Data Ambassador for DataKind Singapore. (http://bit.ly/1Q0vXiP).

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