Suddenly you and your organization are tasked to transform your electricity system into one that is cleaner, more resilient, and more affordable. And it that was not enough, it needs to happen in collaboration with other industry sectors, such as transportation, agriculture, manufacturing, and others. Without the data about data, the metadata, you will not be able to understand the origin, structure, quality, and relevance of the data you need to conduct relevant analytics. We typically understand metadata as being a database schema, but there is more to metadata than that. Have you thought about “Usage Metadata” which can help you in allocating funds for maintaining a dataset? Or “Business Metadata” so you know who the data owners and data stewards are? And using “Descriptive Metadata” to communicate the meaning of your data? Metadata is the foundation for your analytics program. Learn how to use it and how to best expand your metadata!

During this session you will learn:

• What metadata is and why it is important for analytics
• Considerations for metadata management
• How to jumpstart utility analytics with embedded metadata management