Locally Optimistic hosts periodic events focused on data leadership, data tools, and making your team more effective. All Locally Optimistic meetups and events are remote and open to all community members.
Add all Locally Optimistic events to your calendar here, or check out upcoming and past events below. Community member Emilie Burke also created a Zap to add any new Locally Optimistic videos to Todoist.
Upcoming Data Leadership Events
- February 1, 2021
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💁 Locally Optimistic Meetup - Data Consulting & Freelancing
February 1, 2021 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
https://trove.zoom.us/j/97359119089?pwd=Z3dZcGFzTkxOdHNiVm4rL2FlSUhTUT09What does it take to transition from a traditional data role into freelancing or consulting? Scott Breitenother, Irina Kukuyeva, Michael Kaminsky, and Gabi Steele will talk about their own transitions and answer community questions about how, when, and whether to make the leap.
Hope to see you there!
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- February 18, 2021
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🤝 Locally Optimistic: Monthly Business Reviews
February 18, 2021 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
https://trove.zoom.us/j/97359119089?pwd=Z3dZcGFzTkxOdHNiVm4rL2FlSUhTUT09Ilan Man will host a conversation on one mechanism to get a lot of value from your data - a monthly business review program. He'll explore how to get buy in, how to align on KPIs, and how to facilitate effective meetings - as well as answer community questions.
https://locallyoptimistic.com/post/mbr-program-part-1/
Hope to see you there!
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Past Locally Optimistic Events
Data Leadership Meetups
LO’s meetups are an opportunity for community members to lead conversations about data leadership topics important to them. If you are interested in leading a meetup or suggesting a topic, please join the conversation in #virtual-events in our Slack community – this is a great opportunity to start speaking about data topics in a low-risk way with an amazing community supporting you!
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Locally Optimistic Meetup - Data Product Managers
In this meetup, we dig into Data product managers - what makes a data PM successful, what kinds of teams can benefit from having one, and what are the challenges of adapting a traditional PM role to a data team? -
LO Meetup - Governance and Compliance
Sanjana Sen of Fishtown Analytics and Stephen Bailey of Immuta lead a conversation about compliance and data governance. How do various organizations handle data access control, data tagging, anonymization, and other key compliance activities? What are some frameworks to help think through key compliance and governance solutions? -
Locally Optimistic Meetup - Lean Data Science
Michael Kaminsky leads a conversation about Lean Data Science. How can you take an iterative, business metrics-driven approach to data science that delivers more value, more quickly?
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Locally Optimistic Meetup - Linear v. Circular Projects
Alexis Johnson-Gresham and Caitlin Moorman lead a conversation about breaking down data projects into circular and linear tasks, and how to use that framework to improve stakeholder communication and project planning.
Blog post part 1: https://locallyoptimistic.com/post/linear-and-circular-projects-part-1/
Blog post part 2: https://locallyoptimistic.com/post/linear-and-circular-projects-part-2/ -
Locally Optimistic Meetup - Data Clinics
Jacob Frackson of Dialogue and Sami Yabroudi of Ro lead a discussion about implementing data clinics to manage the chaos of ad-hoc requests and deliver better results to happier stakeholders.
Jacob's article: https://towardsdatascience.com/implementing-data-clinics-will-save-time-and-get-more-done-e1f003e1c5ee
Sami's article: https://medium.com/ro-data-team-blog/data-clinic-and-data-requests-ro-453196829847 -
Locally Optimistic Meetup - Agile Analytics
Alexis Johnson-Gresham and Michelle Ballen lead a conversation about applying agile methodologies to analytics teams - what works, what doesn't work, and how you can adapt agile to suit analytics better. This Locally Optimistic blog series is a great primer: https://www.locallyoptimistic.com/post/agile-analytics-p1
https://www.locallyoptimistic.com/post/agile-analytics-p2
https://www.locallyoptimistic.com/post/agile-analytics-p3
Tool Talks
LO’s Tool Talks are an opportunity for community members to learn about emerging data tools. They consist of a product demo and lots of time for community questions about the tool and uses cases, with both the tool’s team and actual users available to answer questions. If you are interested in leading a tool talk or suggesting a tool for us to feature, please join the conversation in #virtual-events in our Slack community!
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Locally Optimistic Tool Talk - Census
Sean Lynch from Census talks about moving data back out of your data warehouse and into the tools your teams use every day. Includes Q&A from the community about why you might use Census, the new dbt integration, and upcoming improvements. -
Locally Optimistic Tool Talk - Great Expectations
Sam Bail of Superconductive, the team behind https://greatexpectations.io, discusses how Great Expectations helps data teams eliminate pipeline debt through data testing, documentation, and profiling. We begin with a walk through of the tool, with lots of community-led Q&A and some sneak peeks of what is coming up for Great Expectations.
Slides from Sam's talk: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_i4rQc-Z7fHGGnOfV2bufhkAeyJfY0RS/view?usp=sharing -
Locally Optimistic Tool Talk - Iteratively
A conversation with Patrick Thompson and Ondrej Hrebicek of Iteratively (https://iterative.ly/about/) walk us through how to capture clean, consistent events data and answer questions from the Locally Optimistic community about Iteratively. -
Locally Optimistic Tool Talk - Spectacles
Dylan Baker, Josh Temple, and Tom Miller talk about continuous integration and Looker, with their open source tool, Spectacles (https://www.spectacles.dev). -
Locally Optimistic Tool Talk - Castor
A conversation with Tristan Mayer of Castor (https://en.castordoc.com/) about democratizing data, automating data dictionaries, and what's next for Castor. -
Locally Optimistic Tool Talk - Airflow for Beginners with Astronomer.io
A conversation with Viraj Parekh of Astronomer (https://www.astronomer.io) creates a basic Airflow job from scratch in 20 minutes and answers questions from the Locally Optimistic community about getting started with Airflow.
AMAs
LO’s AMAs are casual interviews with some of our amazing community members, who tell their stories about building and leading data teams, career progression, and their own data journeys. This series is on hold, but if you are interested in helping us revive AMAs, please speak up in #virtual-events in our Slack community!
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Locally Optimistic AMA: Matt Mazur
WordPress.com's Simon Ouderkirk sits down with Matt Mazur, Locally Optimistic community member, freelance data analyst, and serial entrepreneur, to discuss career journeys, analytics knowhow, and communication - also some laughs.
Sharp viewers will also catch Simon mixing up Trotsky and Tolstoy, classic!
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Locally Optimistic AMA: Claire Carroll
WordPress.com's Simon Ouderkirk sits down with Claire Carroll, Locally Optimistic community member, dbt Community Manager and Analyst at Philadelphia based Fishtown Analytics to discuss career progression, learning from other teams, green flags and red flags, and of course, the infamous LEFT JOIN OR DIE t-shirt!
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Locally Optimistic AMA: Taylor Murphy
Simon Ouderkirk of WordPress.com sits down with Taylor Murphy of Gitlab to discuss Analytics journeys, a data organization translation of DevOps, hiring for data roles, and moving from a leadership spot into an individual contributor role.
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Locally Optimistic AMA: Sam Swift
Simon Ouderkirk, Director of Data and Analysis at WordPress.com, sits down with Sam Swift of Bowery Farming to discuss working in data and analysis, the trouble with job titles, and the nature of negotiation within organizations. -
Locally Optimistic AMA: Caitlin Moorman
Caitlin Moorman joins Simon to discuss building a data team, thinking about how to help folks climb their own ladder, and the mysteries of measurement!
