Data Mining for Educators
This session provides an overview of available data from BARD and other accident data for use in teaching boating safety. The focus will be on methods to query available data with an understanding of BARD structure (in brief) and its direct impact and limitations on the queried results that are pulled (e.g., If you pull in data from the fatal table, you limit your queried results to only those records that relate to fatalities to the exclusion of all other accidents, etc.)
Joe McCullough
Boating Law Administrator • Alaska Office of Boating Safety
Joe moved to Alaska in 1992 after visiting for the summer and falling in love with the ocean and the mountains. He has worked for the Alaska Department of Natural Resources for 26 years, starting out as a volunteer in Kachemak Bay State Park.Joe also worked as a park ranger in Anchor Point and on the Kenai River. He was hired as the Education Coordinator for the Alaska Boating Safety Program in 2002. In June he was promoted to Boating Law Administrator.
Joe loves teaching and is a nationally certified boating safety instructor, NSBC boat control instructor trainer, Alaska Police Standards Council instructor and an American Canoe Association instructor.
Joe was the recipient of the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators’ (NASBLA) Boating Safety Award in 2006 and NASBLA’s Educator of the Year Award in 2012. He graduated with a B.A. Degree from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA. Joe lives in Anchorage with his wife and daughter.
Tammy Terry
Natural Resources Law Enforcement Program Administrator
Ohio DNR, Div. of Parks and Watercraft, Law Enforcement Section
2024 Chair, NASBLA Engineering, Reporting & Analysis Committee