Data Behind the Scenes
Schedule of talks
Who said what, and when.
You can watch the whole event through our YouTube playlist or review the talk descriptions here.
Preshow
We had two talks that we couldn't fit into the schedule, but the speakers pre-recorded their talk for us to share before the main event:
- Wizard without the Curtain by Krysta Chauncey, Ph.D. (Action Potential Acumen, LLC)
- Scraping, Cleaning, and Embracing the Mess: Lessons from analysing court data in India by Anindita Pattanayak (Enfold Proactive Health Trust)
The live event
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10:00 ET
Event opens
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10:10 ET
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10:20 ET
Tailoring satellite images
Krishna ( thechaoticneuron ) (He/Him) -
10:45 ET
Churn Prediction: We thought it was hard but it was easy
Matthew Brandt aka mattytwoshoes -
11:10 ET
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11:35 ET
From Chaos to Clarity: Data Journalism in the COVID era
Prasanta Kumar Dutta (he/him) -
12:00 ET
How I Made dbt Builds 6x Faster (Then Rolled It Back)
Paul Rosenzweig (He/Him) -
12:25 ET
(break)
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13:30 ET
There Are No Data Emergencies*
Amanda Alvarez (She/Her) -
14:20 ET
The Unreasonable Expectations of "Data"
Joshua Noble (He/Him) -
14:45 ET
(break)
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15:15 ET
Bring Ambiguity to Impact, a guide for data people to lead through complexity
Gabrielle Yang (She/Her) -
15:40 ET
Found in Translation: Building Metrics Stakeholders Need, Not What They Want
Caleb Bowie (He/Him) -
16:05 ET
The Data Science Ship of Theseus: is it still data science if AI is involved?
David Asboth (He/Him) -
16:30 ET
Lunchtime project to cabinet briefing
David Hood (He/Him) -
16:55 ET
Closing remarks
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