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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Whether we use Data Studio, Excel, Google Sheets, Tableau, R, some other platform, or (most likely) some combination of platforms, at the end of the day, as analysts, a core mechanism we use for communicating with our stakeholders is data visualization. The difference between an excellent visualization and a mediocre one can easily be the difference between whether a stakeholder understands and acts upon the data or whether she, instead, struggles to internalize the information and actually put it to use. In this session, Tim will walk through some of the neuroscience and psychology that underpins best practices in data visualization, as well as provide platform-agnostic tactical tips that put these principles to effective use.