The Hell, According to a Data Scientist
The talk takes inspiration from a famous literary piece, Dante Alighieri's "Inferno" (in Italian, the Hell) to offer data scientists a moral revenge on the data sinners they constantly encounter in their professional life. While Dante populates his Hell with political enemies and even former Popes, I redraw the map of Dante's Inferno finding a place and an adequate punishment for data sinners. With the help of the audience, I will make sure that creators of invalid CSV files, users of identifiers so unique that they are even longer than the recommended PEP 8 line length, and all other data sinners find their well-deserved place in Hell. The bottom line of the talk is that data scientists' life will not improve until organisations begin to manage their data properly and realise that data products and infrastructures can be developed only when data satisfy minimal usability criteria, such as machine-readability.