Lauren Benezra has been volunteering with a local cat rescue since 2018. She recently took on the challenge of rebuilding their data stack from scratch, replacing a Jenga tower of incomprehensible Google Sheets with a more reliable system backed by the Modern Data Stack. By using Airtable, Airbyte, BigQuery, dbt Cloud and Census, her role as Foster Coordinator has transformed: instead of digging for buried information while wrangling cats, she now serves up accurate data with ease while... well... wrangling cats.

Viewers will learn that it's possible to run an extremely scalable and reliable stack on a shoestring budget, and will come away with actionable steps to put Lauren's hard-won lessons into practice in their own volunteering projects or as the first data hire in a tiny startup.

Speakers: Lauren Benezra, Senior Analytics Engineer, dbt Labs

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