Data Culture

What do Marie Kondo and the Small Data movement have in common? It's about minimalism. Challenge the need to collect everything and all data. Can you declutter your data warehouse or focus on the hot data, which is the data you’re actually using for business questions, metrics, customer segmentation that spark joy, I mean spark revenue/ impact for your organization. Looking forward to seeing the ongoing debate of big vs small data or ... drop everything and just call it data. Shoutout to Sheila Sitaram, Ryan Boyd ??, Jordan Tigani and the MotherDuck team on putting together the Small Data SF conference! I had a great time joining Ravit Jain, James Winegar, Jake Thomas and Josh Wills for a panel on Data Minimalism that wrapped up the conference! Personal highlights from the conference: - sessions featuring the next frontier of the data industry and latest developments from Ollama, DuckDB, LangChain, Posit PBC - catching up with Lindsay Murphy and hearing her talk on Squeezing Maximum ROI out of Small Data - meeting Margaret Lawrence Rosas - the genius behind Looker's customer success and now she's at MotherDuck - always great to see Jack Sweeney, Diego Jara Simkin, Trevor Heath, Nouras Haddad, Tyson Mao - a reminder that your laptop is quite powerful and you can build AI locally

The most common question I get when folks ask for career advice is: How do I become Head of Data? Excited to join Benjamin Rogojan on Aug 6th at 4pm ET to share how I pivoted into data and went from IC to Senior Director to CEO of Data Culture. If you know someone who would find this insightful, please share or if you simply want to come and say hi ??

? Thrilled to share our latest collaboration with NationSwell on this Place-based Impact microsite. It was such a pleasure designing this alongside Charlotte Eckstein & developing alongside Sey' Adem Cileli + Prashanth Selvam. Huge thanks to Amy Lee, Minna Son, Taylor Onderko, Brooke Josebachvili and to the entire Place-based Impact Collaborative for trusting Data Culture with this vision! ?? Check out the site at: https://lnkd.in/e6RQkgg6

?? Last week Preql hosted another inspiring event for #NYTW: The Road to AI Readiness Starts with Data Leaders across product, startups and data orgs shared their thoughts on how ready we are to implement AI-powered solutions. A couple takeaways: 1?? Most organizations are still looking for business use cases 2?? AI requires experimentation, which means you need your leadership team to be truly bought in 3?? AI should be a part of your larger data strategy, not just a set of new tooling to invest in 4?? We’re still at the very beginning of the journey! Step one is making sure you have a strong data foundation Thank you to all participants, especially?Celina Wong, CEO at Data Culture, Sebastian Okser, PhD CTO at Cyndx, Aleksandr Tiupikov CEO at Datalynx #AIReadiness #DataDriven #AI #DataOwnership

NY Tech Week is kicking off today. There are over 700 events throughout the city ?? ! I was curious how many events had AI in its title so of course, I took the calendar of events and ran a count. About 20% of the events have AI in the title this year. Many folks, both technical and non technical ranging from executives to analysts, I've spoken with feel overwhelmed and unprepared for implementing AI or knowing how to create an AI strategy. A well-known strategy for strategy is what you say no to. But how do you know what to say no or yes to? You can start by exploring your organization's path to AI readiness. We, Data Culture will be discussing this topic during our Tech Week event with co-hosts, Preql and Datalynx on Thursday, 6/6 from 6:30-8:30pm. Hope to see you there! If you're attending any other NY Tech Week events, let me know or give them a shout out. https://lnkd.in/dK_HJ6uy #techweek

Data Culture along with Sigma Computing, Preql, Rivery and Databricks hosted a Women in Data event last night Orla Clifford, Lia Schiza, Taylor McGrath and I shared our personal experiences, pivotal moments and perspective on the future of data + AI for companies and for AI/ Data professionals. Thank you to Lauren Le Rêve and Lizzie Case for your hard work in organizing the event! It was great to hear from attendees the panel resonated with them and gave tangible insights for them to walk away with. Thank you coming Samantha Lohier, Alexa Garrison, Catherine P. and many more!

We're heading to Austin for Data Council next week! ?? Our team will be speaking - Samantha Lohier and Celina Wong. Share your favorite Austin spots!

We are so proud of our latest data for good visualization project with NationSwell! Shout out to our team Marisa Ruiz Asari, Charlotte Eckstein, Neil Oliver and Sey' Adem Cileli. We loved working with Allie Mahler, Austen McEnaney, Andrea Tan, Syd Goin, Brooke Josebachvili and the whole team at Nationswell. ?? The Case for Childcare is an important mission and message! Linked here: https://lnkd.in/etwcSjCP #dataforgood #childcare #datavisualization #figma #webflowdeveloper #illustration #customdatavisualization

We are so EXCITED to finally share our latest data visualization project for Chartmetric! A special congratulations to Marisa Ruiz Asari, Neil Oliver, and Sey' Adem Cileli for their hardwork on this collaboration. You can check out the project here: https://lnkd.in/eA2BTdYq #datavisualization #datastorytelling #musicdata #datajournalism