Join Us for an Evening of Growth and Grit: Data Mishaps Night
Have you ever worked on one of one of those projects where despite your best efforts, things just didn't go according to plan? Maybe your predictive model predicted everything but reality, or your data visualization ended up looking more like abstract art. Well, you're not alone, and it's time to pay tribute to these not-so-shiny moments at our annual Data Mishaps Night!
We're gearing up for an evening of shared data stories with a focus on the hard-earned lessons that come from our mistakes. Because let's be honest, the path to success is rarely a straight line, and every detour is packed with insights.
Data Mishaps Night: Where 'Oops' Meets 'Aha!'
At Data Mishaps Night, we believe that sharing our 'oops' moments in data can lead to collective 'aha!' moments. Because talking about our data blunders is how we:
Normalize the Bumps in the Road: Everyone trips up sometimes, and there's great value in that stumble.
Encourage Risk-Taking: Hear how stepping out of the comfort zone has led to breakthroughs, even if it's through unexpected challenges.
Strengthen Our Community: Sharing struggles and vulnerabilities brings our data community closer, creating a support system that's all about lifting each other up.
The Countdown Begins
We are less than 2 weeks away from the 4th annual Data Mishaps Night! By the numbers, we have nearly 1.4K registered attendees, 1 fabulous keynote speaker and 12 inspiring data practitioners who will share their data mishap!
Data Mishaps Night Speaker Lineup 2024
Our Keynote
Hadley Wickham will kick off our night of fun. If you have been in the data science space (or have had anything to do with #rstats ), you likely are very familiar with Hadley. 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 has made an impact on so many data scientists lives by building tools (computational and cognitive) that make data science easier, faster, and more fun.
Our Speakers
Elizabeth Beebe, LinkedIn, How to Almost Spend $800,000 on Snowflake
Aarsh Batra, LinkedIn, GeoJSON Jolts: The Esri Expedition to R sf
Cynthia Huang, Twitter, Silver linings: how a harmonisation mishap turned into a PhD thesis
James Lamb, LinkedIn, GitHub, Those tables were EMPTY! … for some definition of empty
Norma Padron, LinkedIn, TBD
Arpit Arora, Instagram, From Prediction to Perplexity: Notes from a data estimation gone awry
Jasmine Daly, Twitter, LinkedIn, Confusing Business Expectations with Professional Passions
Geraldine Klarenberg, Mastodon, TBD
Elena Dyachkova, Twitter, The Big Stripe Unraveling
Richard Bamattre , Twitter, My personal museum of data visualization failure
Abigail Haddad, LinkedIn, My Model Was Wrong. And It Didn’t Matter
Lindsay Murphy, LinkedIn, TBD
Join The Fun!
So, mark your calendars and join us for a night where we embrace the messiness of data work. Whether you're a seasoned data practitioner or just starting out, there's something for everyone.
Here's to the deleted data, the models that confuse even themselves, and the charts that make your audience dizzy. Here's to the growth that comes from all of it.
Don't forget to sign up at datamishapsnight.com – we can't wait to see you there!
