"Welcome to your first day at company WeHaveData! Here are your laptop and your account, and you're good to go, right? Let me know if you have any questions; I'll be in an office miles away."

Many of us have been in situations like this. What are the questions you should definitely ask? What things can you do to figure stuff out yourself? How can you get up to speed as efficient and with as little frustration as possible, for both you and your new colleagues/managers/project leads? In this talk I'll guide you through some strategies and tips&tricks on how to get an overview of the data-landscape of a new place, for ensuring a confident start. At the end of the talk, you'll have some checklists with topics to broach and resources to keep on hand.