End of Summer Double-Header: Data Models and Mages

Talk #1 - Data Modeling is Dead. Long Live Data Modeling!
Speaker: Joe Reis

Data modeling is on life support. Some say it’s dead. The traditional practices are increasingly ignored and forgotten. The result is often a loss of structure and a shared understanding of business rules and vocabulary.At the same time, data modeling is more critical than ever. With AI's rising popularity, many organizations rush to incorporate it into their infrastructure. Without consideration of the underlying data framework, the result will be unpleasant for many organizations.I n this talk, I argue that data modeling is a key enabler for success with AI. We must return to basics and revamp data modeling to work with modern business workflows and technologies. Long live data modeling!

Talk #2 - [Mage.ai demo](https://mage.ai)

Mage is an open-source data transformation and orchestration tool designed to give your data team magical ✨ powers.
In our demo, we’ll walk through an end-to-end pipeline with Mage, covering

• Ingesting data from a streaming source,
• Performing transformations, both in python and with dbt,
• Writing to a data source,

Finally, we’ll discuss how Mage fits into the modern data stack and how you can deploy it to your infrastructure or use it for your next data engineering/analysis project. By the end of our talk, you’ll be able to:

• Describe what Mage is and how it fits into the Modern Data Stack,
• Get started with your own Mage project,
• Deploy a Mage project.

Speaker - Matt Palmer

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Schedule:
6:30-6:50pm Grab some Pizza
6:50pm Announcements
7 :00-7:20pm Speaker #1
7:30-8:15pm Speaker #2
8:00-8:30pm Networking