Name: Data Engineering at a Natural History Museum
Start: 2026-10-15T15:30:00-0400
End: 2026-10-15T16:20:00-0400

Data Engineering at a Natural History Museum

Thursday October 15, 2026 3:30pm - 4:20pm EDT

Auditorium (Basement)

We are building a new ETL system at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History in order to answer questions that can't be approached with the built-in analytics of our business systems. This talk walks through the system build-out: from the initial motivating questions, to ETL concepts, to the pipelines in production today. The stack is self-hosted on local VMs, but the same principles apply to cloud-native environments. Tools covered: Airflow, Python/pandas, Postgres, SQL, and dbt.

Speakers

Peter Hedman

Data Visualization Analyst

Peter Hedman has worked at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History since 2018, where his work spans data engineering, analytics, and IT infrastructure. He began by creating and presenting planetarium shows and is now building a new ETL system to enable easier and better reporting... Read More →

Thursday October 15, 2026 3:30pm - 4:20pm EDT
Auditorium (Basement) 525 Superior Ave, Cleveland, OH 44114, USA

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