November Capital Region Data Professionals Meeting

Greetings, data enthusiasts!

Our November meeting is scheduled for Monday, November 16th, at 5:30 pm! We will meet in person at: Troy Web Consulting, 135 Mohawk St, Cohoes, NY 12047.

Please RSVP if you are attending, so we can purchase an appropriate amount of food for everyone. Food is TBA and will be announced closer to the meeting date. For this meeting, we are welcoming our own Mawais Farooqui, who will be talking about the work involved in turning data into business insights. Thank you for taking the time to share your experiences with us!

Our meeting schedule is as follows:

5:30 PM: Food, soft drinks, and networking
6:15 PM: Chapter news and announcements
6:30 PM: Presentation

We usually wrap up between 7:30 PM and 8:00 PM. Mawais will be presenting, "How Business Data Becomes Management Decisions"

Session Details:
Using a fictional beverage company, this presentation will follow data from POS systems, online transactions, inventory systems, APIs, and CSV files. It will show how PostgreSQL, SQL, and Python are used to store, clean, and transform the data.

The prepared data will then feed into a Power BI dashboard that helps management analyze sales, monitor inventory, forecast demand, and make better business decisions.