Analytics Power Hour
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The podcast where @tgwilson, @mymo, @moemkiss, @valkroll, & @JulieMHoyer discuss the analytics issues of the day, with producing by @joshcrowhurst
Joined December 2014
Can a discussion of the processes behind analytics be lively and engaging? The idea for making an episode based on that topic made it through our content planning process. You be the judge. Give it a listen!
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What is "process" in analytics? On the one hand, it can be seen as a detailed sequence of minutia by which anything that needs to be repeated in the world of analytics gets carried out in a structu...
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We asked ChatGPT to tell us why it biffed so badly when we uploaded all of our online store's data to it and asked for insights. It told us we needed a session with Juliana Jackson. So that's what we did.
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Imagine a world where business users simply fire up their analytics AI tool, ask for some insights, and get a clear and accurate response in return. That’s the dream, isn’t it? Is it just around the...
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There's definitely variation across our episodes. We haven't deeply analyzed it, though. If we did, would we use ANOVA? Maybe. @ChelseaParlett joined us for a bit of stats talk on our latest episode.
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Did you know that, upon closer inspection, many a statistical test will reveal that "it’s just a linear model" (#IJALM)? That wound up being a key point that our go-to statistician, Chelsea Parlett...
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Is your company thrilled with its BI platform(s)? If you say, "Yes," you're lying like Billy Crystal in The Princess Bride. BI tools are much-maligned. Is it their fault, or are they tasked with the impossible? @drinkzima from @omni joined us to discuss.
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Product managers for BI platforms have it easy. They "just" need to have the dev team build a tool that gives all types of users access to all of the data they should be allowed to see in a way that...
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A bad time to plant an apple tree is when you're hungry. A bad time to start networking is when you need a job. Our latest episode with Albert Bellamy has some great perspectives and tips!
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It’s a process few people genuinely enjoy, but it’s one which we all find ourselves going through periodically in our careers: landing a new job. We grabbed MajorData himself, Albert Bellamy, for a...
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Our latest episode was a deep dive into synthetic data with special guest Winston Li. We talked all about this sci-fi sounding data, how it's made, where it shines, and where it falls short!
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Synthetic data: it's a fascinating topic that sounds like science fiction but is rapidly becoming a practical tool in the data landscape. From machine learning applications to safeguarding privacy,...
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You get a data product! And YOU get a data product! Wait. What actually makes a data product a data product? It's trickier than we thought (and it seems useful to actually nail that down)!
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Is it just us, or are data products becoming all the rage? Is Google Trends a data product that could help us answer that question? What actually IS a data product? And does it even matter that we...
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Our kingdom for a metric that is simple, clear, and as easy to interpret as it is to query!
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No matter how simple a metric's name makes it sound, the details are often downright devilish. What is a website visit? What is revenue? What is a customer? Go one level deeper with a metric like...
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We're making the experience of listening to our latest episode, with behavioral scientist @lindsaypjuarez, as frictionless as possible!
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Data that tracks what users and customers do is behavioral data. But behavioral science is much more about why humans do things and what sorts of techniques can be employed to nudge them to do...
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We thought about having Claude as a guest for this episode, but we ultimately decided to keep it strictly human. The conversation was more organic that way.
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We finally did it: devoted an entire episode to AI. And, of course, by devoting an episode entirely to AI, we mean we just had GPT-4o generate a script for the entire show, and we just each read our...
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Is our latest show pretty much like our past shows, or is it. an outlier? Give it a listen and you can decide!
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How is an outlier in the data like obscenity? A case could be made that they're both the sort of thing where we know it when we see it, but that can be awfully tricky to perfectly define and detect....
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We visited the home pages of 10 random BI and analytics platforms and 100% of them included the word "insights" at least once on them. Is that an insight? No. Our latest episode explores why it's not.
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Do you cringe at the mere mention of the word, "insights"? What about its fancier cousin, "actionable insights"? We do, too. As a matter of fact, on this episode, we discovered that Moe has developed...
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Linear regression is so often explained using visuals -- a chart with an x and a y axis -- that we thought it would be fun to try an exploration in audio format. Luckily @ChelseaParlett was able to join us so that we could pull it off!
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Why? Or… y? What is y? Why, it's mx + b! It's the formula for a line, which is just a hop, a skip, and an error term away from the formula for a linear regression! On the one hand, it couldn't be...
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To celebrate International Women's Day, we had an all female crew dive into the topic of AI projects with guest, @kath0134! Kathleen shares several helpful frameworks to ensure your next AI use case is set-up for success.
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In celebration of International Women’s Day, this episode of Analytics Power Hour features an all-female crew discussing the challenges and opportunities in AI projects. Moe Kiss, Julie Hoyer and Val...
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Out: the quantified self. In: Connected wellness. Either way, it's hyperspecific personal data collected as a continuous stream. The implications? Many! @kubla from @fulcradynamics joined us to talk about them.
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Every listener of this show is keenly aware that they are enabling the collection of various forms of hyper-specific data. Smartphones are movement and light biometric data collection machines. Many...
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Just because you can't validate your hypothesis with the tools in your toolbox you're most comfortable with doesn't mean you shouldn't try new ones! In this episode, we're joined by Erika Olson for some culture-obsessed stories and tips!
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We all know that data doesn't speak for itself, but what happens when multiple instruments of measurement contain flaws or gaps that impede our ability to measure what matters on their own? Turning...
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What's the opposite of a 280-character post on X? How about a 75,000 word book? The path from one to the other leads right through our latest episode: the launch of a book co-authored by @tgwilson.
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Every so often, one of the co-hosts of this podcast co-authors a book. And by “every so often” we mean “it’s happened once so far.” Tim, along with (multi-)past guest Dr. Joe Sutherland, just...
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We asked. You responded. We learned. Now, we want to share back! Join us for a special bonus episode where we dive into some of the surprising findings from our 2024 listener survey as well as some talk about some new listener goodies!
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The start of a new year is a great time for reflection as well as planning for the year ahead. Join us for this special bonus episode where we talk through some of our favorite learnings and takeaw...
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What's coming to the data world in 2025? We asked Claude, but their answer was a hallucination. So we went with one of the smartest humans we know and had @BM_DataDowntime from @montecarlodata on the show to see where asking the question took us!
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Every year kicks off with an air of expectation. How much of our Professional Life in 2025 is going to look a lot like 2024? How much will look different, but we have a pretty good idea of what the...
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Would you believe we've been making this little show for ten years? Thanks for listening! It wouldn't seem real to us save for the fact that our annual Year in Review episode feels like a deeply entrenched tradition.
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Ten years ago, on a cold dark night, a podcast was started, 'neath the pale moonlight. There were few there to see (or listen), but they all agreed that the show that was started looked a lot like...
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