I genuinely enjoy giving conference talks and running workshops on topics like beginner’s tech skills, data analysis, and data engineering. In addition, I’ve been blogging for over a decade, used to run my own zine, and have been invited to write guest posts for other publications. If you’d like me to speak at your event in 2021, or would like me to write something, drop me an email!
You can also ☕ buy me a coffee ☕ to support my work creating and delivering workshops 🙂 I appreciate any support! buymeacoffee.com/sambail
Projects
Every once in a while, I hack together some smaller creative projects for fun… or start bigger things.
- In 2023, I launched a series of non-alcoholic bar pop-up events in NYC called “Third Place Bar”. Sign up for our newsletter, check out our upcoming events, and follow us on Instagram to stay in the loop on what’s happening.
- I started the “Blog Cast” podcast, a podcast that features my favorite tech blog posts, read out loud (so you can listen while going for a walk, doing chores…): https://anchor.fm/blog-cast
- I hacked together the little Color Palette Bot, just because I really love generative art Twitter bots, and wanted to write some JavaScript: https://twitter.com/ColPaletteBot
- A bunch of my friends contributed to “Quaranzine”, a multi-media zine I put together on Thanksgiving 2020 while many of us were home alone during the pandemic: https://quaranzine.glitch.me/
- I taught myself how to use GarageBand and wrote and recorded a few quarantine inspired cover songs while being home alone during the lockdown in 2020: “iso trap” – A quarantine inspired cover album
Talks, workshops, writing
Here’s a sample of content I’ve created in recent years, along with links to recordings or slides, where available.
- Podcast: Sober Sallies – Sam talks about starting a non-alc bar, 2023
- Podcast: Decompose.IO – Modern Data Stack (German), 2022
- “The Wonderful World of Data Quality in Python”
- Data Umbrella 2021 (demo repository and slides)
- Podcast: “Catalog & Cocktails” – Do you test your data? data.world podcast, 2021
- “Building a robust data pipeline with dbt, Airflow, and Great Expectations
- dbt Coalesce conference 2020 (recording)
- PyLadies Berlin 2021 (recording)
- ODSC East 2021 (updated demo repository and slides)
- “Learn to Bash!” and “Introduction to Terminal” Women Who Code workshop 2019 (initial version of the demo repository)
- PyLadies SWFL 2021 (updated demo repository)
- “Data testing and documentation with Great Expectations”
- Python Users Berlin 2020 (slides)
- “Your one-stop data shop – An intro to foreign data wrappers in Postgres”
- PostgresOpen 2019 (slides)
- “Messy Data and Reluctant Users – The Trouble with Healthcare Data”
- Infiniteconf 2019 (slides)
- DataCouncil NYC 2019 (recording)
- Introduction to healthcare data analysis with Pandas
- PyLadies Remote workshop 2019 (recording)
- Women Who Code NYC workshop 2019 (slides)
- Power To Fly Lunch & Learn: Getting The Most From Your Data, Ask A Data Insights Engineer 2018
- “Inspiring the next generation of Girl Geeks”, TEDx Huddersfield 2013
- Podcast: Sam & Nathan Rae talk about Manchester Girl Geeks, Northology podcast 2013
- Keynote talk, Hack to the Future 2012
- “Girls can love computing; someone just needs to show them how”, Guardian blog 2012
- Various academic conference and workshop papers and talks in the Description Logic and Semantic Web community, DBLP bibliography profile 2010-2014