2022

Data Mishaps Night Agenda

The second annual Data Mishaps Night took place on Thursday, Feb 24th 2022 with approximately 500 attendees and 13 wonderful speakers sharing their stories of data mistakes and learnings.

Welcome and Introduction

7:00 – 7:10

From the Co-Organizers

• Laura Ellis (@littlemissdata) and Caitlin Hudon (@beeonaposy) will kick off with a brief introduction and some housekeeping/logistics.

Keynote

7:10 – 7:25

Hilary Mason

Theme: “Quality” Data Curation and Downstream Quagmires

7:25 – 7:50

Speakers

• Stefania Olafsdottir | CEO + Co-Founder | @StefaniaBje
• Hannah Gunderman | Data, Gaming, and Popular Culture Librarian | @HannahGunderman
• Vonn Johnson | Data Analyst | @johnsovo
• Jacqueline Nolis | Head of Data Science | @skyetetra

Theme: “I’ll just …” (Prod Stories)

7:50 – 8:15

Speakers

• Rebecca Hadi | Director of Data Science | @beehadi26
• Elizabeth Beebe | Data Scientist | @emfbeebe
• Janelle Coburn | Manager, Operations Technical Services, Statistician | @janelle_coburn
• Eric Nantz | Statistician | @theRcast

Theme: Machine “Learning” and “Directional” Metrics

8:20 – 8:45

Speakers

• Varun Kumar | Data Scientist | @varun_invent
• Josh Laurito | Director of Data | @joshlaurito
• Michael Mahoney | PhD Student | @MikeMahoney218
• Maura Church | Director of Data Science and Data Engineering | @outoftheverse

Closing Remarks

8:45 – 8:50

From the Co-Organizers

• Closing remarks from Laura Ellis and Caitlin Hudon

Housekeeping Notes

• Twitter – Before, during and after the event, we will be using the hashtag #DataMishapsNight to continue the conversation. Note that we won’t have time for Q&A during the event.
• Recording – This event will not be recorded. We want to give presenters a chance to talk openly and honestly about their mistakes without the pressure of an eternal recording.
• Slides – After the event, we will collect any slide decks that speakers would like to share and link to them from this page.