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DESCRIPTION:Data work often gets blocked by the unglamorous parts: brittle 
 pipelines\, unclear ownership\, slow deployments\, and systems that are ha
 rd to trust. This talk is about deliberately making data infrastructure 
 “boring” — predictable\, observable\, and easy to change — so that
  the data itself can be used in lots of exciting ways.\n\nClimate Policy R
 adar is a non-profit building open\, credible databases and AI powered too
 ls to support informed climate\, nature\, and development action.\n\nUsing
  a real-world journey from an unreliable ingest to a steadier\, federated 
 platform\, this talk will walk through the principles and trade-offs that 
 matter most: resilience over heroics\, incremental delivery over big-bang 
 rewrites\, and transparency over intuition. The focus is not on specific t
 ools\, but on the engineering moves that turn data pipelines into dependab
 le systems: orchestration that supports recovery\, interfaces that unblock
  downstream teams\, quality signals that can be acted on\, and a shared la
 yer (data lake/warehouse) that aligns definitions and reduces duplication.
 \n\nAttendees will leave with a practical mental model for taking maturing
  data flows and making them boring — in a good way.
DTSTAMP:20260602T212836Z
LOCATION:Doddington Forum
SUMMARY:Making tech boring to keep data exciting - Fred O'Loughlin\, Kerry 
 Parker\, Mark Cottam
URL:https://pretalx.com/pydata-london-2026/talk/AMGUEK/
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