Data engineers build critical pipelines that underpin the computational infrastructure that powers our global economy. Analytics engineers translate impossibly complex business semantics into precise frameworks that give modern companies digital eyes and ears, making them the most agile and responsive organizations ever created. Data scientists find revolutionary truths among vast expanses of noise and distraction, unearthing tiny diamonds in endless mines of numerical dirt.

This talk isn’t about any of that.

This talk is about commas. It’s about capitalization. It’s about indentation. It’s about the tedious arguments that no sensible person should ever care about, but we, as data people, can’t seem to resist. It’s about indulging in our unhinged debates, analyzing data on billions of queries, and giving us all a reason to bury our flag a bit deeper into whatever petty hill we’ve each chosen to die on. Let the good times roll.

Will it tell us anything useful? No. Will there be slides that you can take pictures of to show your leadership team why your role is valuable? Absolutely not. But there will be lots of charts , graphs , and misplaced commas.

Speaker: Benn Stancil, CTO, Mode

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