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Real stories of data work from the folks in the trenches. Wednesday, 2025-09-24 https://databsconf.com/ header: Voyage Pro on Unsplash avi: vectorsmarket15 on Flaticon posts: @qethanm.bsky.social
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In our closing session, @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social 's name winds up in some … unexpected places. All because he spent some of his spare time working on a data project, and conversing with people online.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIIT...
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Who _are_ we, as data practitioners? What is it we actually _do_ ?
@davidasboth.com hosts our late-night philosophy session, to explore the changing role of the data scientist in a world of AI:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCR1...
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When your job is all numbers and data, it's easy to lose sight of higher-order business concerns. Sometimes you need to dig deeper into stakeholder requests to get them what they actually need.
Caleb Bowie shares his playbook:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N71X...
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It's tough enough to draw information from raw data. Even tougher when the very questions you're trying to answer are not clear.
Gabrielle Yang shares her process on moving from hazy business requests to meaningful insight:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDb7...
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For ~15 years companies have been very excited about data. Which is good! Until they heap a bunch of formatted-for-humans PDFs on your desk and expect you to work your magic.
As @fctry2.bsky.social explains:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo8k...
The "girl grinning as house burns" meme, with the text: "If prod burns, prod burns." (Credit: @gecky.me)
Bonus – @gecky.me later offered this as an addendum to her talk:
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Has anyone tried to convince you that they're having a data emergency?
They're probably not. According to @gecky.me data emergencies don't exist … except when they do:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxSh...
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Your CEO _really_ thinks genAI is amazing, in spite of the headlines about AI mishaps. What's the deal? And what can you do about it?
As @qethanm.bsky.social explains, it's all about sizing up the risk:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9pG...
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It's good to speed things up, right? Not always!
Data engineer Paul Rosenzweig sped up some processes, only to realize that the added speed came at a cost.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbLV...
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Reuters graphics journalist Prasanta Kumar Dutta shares his experience building Covid trackers in the early days of the pandemic. You know, when data sources were perfectly clean and available and ready for analysis. Right? Right?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI2d...
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That market research data looks good at first, but you sense that something's … off. Way off. From technical matters to cultural differences to people moving the goal posts …
Ramona Daniel explains it all:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSA6...
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How can data tell you when a customer will cancel their service? Are you taking the hard route in figuring this out? And what does this have to do with butter?
In other words ... Matthew Brandt talks about churn prediction:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9DB...
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Have you ever had to juggle 13k geospatial images of about 1GB apiece, dealing with coordinate systems and cleaning out watermarks? Krishna ( thechaoticneuron ) did, and he was kind enough to share his experience:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyFA...
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@randyau.com opened the live event by exploring how Data Behind the Scenes came about, reminding us that we can all find joy and make space.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JCI...
For the second #DataBS Conf preshow talk, Anindita Pattanayak (Enfold Proactive Health Trust) shared the team's journey to scrape, clean, and analyze court data:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbl7...
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Two talks actually took place _before_ the live event, as part of our preshow.
In the first one, Krysta Chauncey, Ph.D. described collecting UX data for autonomous vehicles. There was a bit of a magic act involved:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qel...
The videos from the #DataBS Conference have made it to YouTube!
Over the coming days, we'll highlight sessisons from the event -- one post per talk.
You can also sneak ahead by going straight to the YouTube playlist, here:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Aaaaand that's a wrap! Thanks everyone for joining.
If you weren't able to attend today, no worries. We'll post here when the videos have made it to YouTube.
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Two more talks -- AI (un)awesomeness and data (not)emergencies -- and now we're on to a quick break.
Wow! Satellite images, churn prediction, market research, data journalism, and dbt ...
And that was just the first block of talks. Stick around for more!
One awesome talk done, second one is on the wayyyyy!
Annnnnd we're off!
Conference chat will take place in our Discord channel, so we'll see you there: bit.ly/databs-chat
T-minus 30 minutes till Data Behind the Scenes!
screenshot of the title page of my Data BS Conf talk black text on a mint green background reads: There Are No Data Emergencies*
In about 44 hours, I'll be wrapping up my @databsconf.com talk. Full conference schedule is at databsconf.com/schedule/ and (free!) tickets are available at ti.to/databsconf/d...
Hello data people, register for a whole day of interesting data talks at DataBS Conf. It's on Wednesday!
I'm on at 4pm ET (9PM BST) talking about a failed data science project, the role of AI in our future, and some amateur philosophy. All in ~20 minutes.
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