Psychology I/O Colloquium presents Richard P. DeShon, Michigan State University

Data Wrangling in Organizational Science

The data organizational scientists work with are rapidly increasing in magnitude, velocity, and complexity. Data errors and analytic mistakes are, concomitantly, more likely.  To motivate the talk, recent high visibility data and data analysis mistakes will be highlighted. Then examples of large, complex data will be presented.  The remainder of the talk will focus on data 'best practices' emphasizing data fidelity testing, data cleaning, data scoring, and restructuring data into 'Tidy' form.

Richard (Rick) DeShon is an Industrial and Organizational Psychologist actively engaged in both research and practice designed to improve organizational effectiveness and increase the experienced meaningfulness of work.  He was educated in Ohio - earning his BS in Psychology at The Ohio State University in 1988 and his PhD in Industrial and Organizational Psychology at the University of Akron in 1993. He then moved far from Ohio to a land known as "Michigan" joining the Psychology faculty at Michigan State University where he remains employed as a professor.  His research has been substantially funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and NASA and published in top tier journals such as Psychological Bulletin, Psychological Methods, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Research Methods, and the Journal of Management.  Over the course of his academic career he has earned numerous awards, such as the Earnest J. McCormic Award Early Career Contributions from the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and has been privileged to work with many great graduate students who now hold both academic and practice positions all over the world. Dr. DeShon recently completed his terms as Associate Editor at the Journal of Applied Psychology and is currently leading the Healthy Organizations Initiative at Michigan State University.  In addition to these roles, Dr. DeShon was President of DeShon & Associates from 2000-2013 and is currently President of STRAmetics, a people strategy company.

All are welcome