Thurs March 7th 2024 at 7pm CST
Our 4th annual Data Mishaps Night took place on March 7th 2024. It was a great time with almost 400 attendees!
Keynote Speaker: Hadley Wickham
Hadley Wickham is the Chief Scientist at Posit, and an Adjunct Professor of Statistics at the University of Auckland, Stanford University, and Rice University. He build tools (computational and cognitive) that make data science easier, faster, and more fun. He’s from New Zealand and currently lives in Houston, TX with his husband and dogs.
2024 Speakers
Geraldine Klarenberg
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer: how I gained a healthy dose of respect for my raw data
Lindsay Murphy
How I accidentally spent 25X my monthly ETL budget, and how I avoid doing it again”
Agenda
INTRODUCTION AND KEYNOTE [7:00 to 7:25]
PIPELINE PERPLEXITIES [7:25 to 7:45]
- [7:25] Lindsay Murphy : How I accidentally spent 25X my monthly ETL budget, and how I avoid doing it again
- [7:30] Aarsh Batra – GeoJSON Jolts: The Esri Expedition to R sf
- [7:35] Norma Padron – From Overanalysis to Empathy: Lessons from a Healthcare Data Quandary
- [7:40] Cynthia Huang – Silver linings: how a harmonisation mishap turned into a PhD thesis
DELETES AND DOUBLE-COUNTS [7:50 to 8:10]
- [7:50] James Lamb – Those tables were EMPTY! … for some definition of empty
- [7:55] Elena Dyachkova – The Big Stripe Unraveling
- [8:00] Geraldine Klarenberg – Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer: how I gained a healthy dose of respect for my raw data
- [8:05] Arpit Arora – Didn’t we count that already?
BUSINESS VALUE AND THE BOTTOM LINE [8:15 to 8:35]
- [8:15] Richard Bamattre – My personal museum of data visualization failure
- [8:20] Abigail Haddad – My Model Was Wrong. And It Didn’t Matter
- [8:25] Jasmine Daly – Confusing Business Expectations with Professional Passions
- [8:30] Elizabeth Beebe – How to Almost Spend $800,000 on Snowflake
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