This talk will discuss how Stanley Black & Decker is creating a Data Science educational environment. This allows all company members hands on access to Data Science training and online python development environment. Leveraging the power of Wordpress as an LMS with 3Blades as a Data Sciences development platform, a robust Data Science learning environment was created. Come hear about the development of this learning environment and what we have learned from our initial company release.

1. Creating A Company
Wide Data Science
Learning Environment
Robert Joseph, PhD
Senior Data Scientist & Analytics Community Manager
Digital Accelerator
August 2017

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Agenda
1. Who Am I
2. The Problem We Are Solving
3. About Stanley Black & Decker
4. The Solution
5. The Process
6. The Learning
7. Questions

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About Me
• BS and MS from Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
• MS and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University
• Over 30 years State-Of-The Art Development
• Over 10 years as Professor
• Patent for Internet Radio Station & DJ System
• Proud Father of 2 Teenage Boys
• Senior Data Scientist solving Data Science
Problems and Building an Educational
Environment

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Problem We Are Solving
The Digital Accelerator is
a center of excellence
tasked with advancing digital
across the enterprise

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What Does This Mean
For Data Science
Providing assistance
to everyone in the company
to raise the bar with
using data to guide solutions

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Stanley Black & Decker
• 175 Year Old Fortune 500 Company
• 40,000 Employees
• 12 Billion In Revenue Last Year
• Multiple Mergers and Acquisitions
• Different Divisions
- Tools (Staley, DeWALT, Black + Decker,
Newell, Craftsman, Porter Cable, Mac
Tools, etc.)
- Security (2nd Largest Commercial Security)
- Healthcare
- Oil & Gas

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The Solution
Goals
• Upskilling SBD Employees.
- People who know the business, teach
them new tools and techniques.
• Sharing lessons learned across enterprise.
How
• Create an environment and shared
resources that allow people to access
information and tools that foster their
analytics understanding and growth.
• Foster a community around Analytics

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Implementing the Solution
• Facebook Workplace
• Education Courses
- Taught small group in person
- Phase onlin course
• Allow users to use tools without IT
installation (3Blades) - HUGE
• Easily extend tool to be used for
real work and collaboration
• Provide other resources of
knowledge (blogs, article reviews,
etc.)

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Demo

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Learnings
• Use Staged approach
• Integration of 3Blades Big win
• Add analytics to whatever you do
- Web analytics for system usage
- Individual and group conversations
about making improvements
• Spread the work out
• Continue to innovate and improve
• Have formal and informal feedback
mechanisms

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Contact Me
• LinkedIn: @drrobertjoseph
• Email: robert.joseph@sbdinc.com