Some of our topic highlights include: Confidence intervals and precision needs vs wants The Spam bot problem and issuing corrections Shipping to vision vs shipping to need (and knowing when to say no) Market-based economy for data asks The Microsoft SQL servers con Analytics-driven change rather than product team-driven change As always, I'd love t…

Some of our topic highlights include: His background and path to founding Montreal Analytics The importance of investing in your data Why clients trust Cyril and his team How Montreal Analytics leads organizations in the right direction Learning through trial and error Whether a shared data stack is the best path forward As always, I'd love to hear…

Some of our topic highlights include: The right amount of precision in different scenarios What modern sales is (and what you need to be successful) Why salespeople are crucial to your customers Using automation to inform sales behavior The trick for identifying talent before you have the data and track record The importance of pipeline hygiene ver…

Some of our topic highlights include: How Sarah got into the world of data Data modeling vs data building (and depth vs variety) The organizational pieces that need to fall in place before you get to the science in data science How experience in sales helps with technical product translation Why Sarah started writing (and what she gets out of it) U…

Some of our topic highlights include: Emily’s background, her journey to data, and what she does at Drizly Answers to your burning questions, like: What type of alcohol is the most popular? How Emily moved up the data ranks from engineer to manager Value of optimizing old vs building new The evolution of data sharing throughout Emily’s career How d…

Some of our topic highlights include: Jessica’s early career in banking Differences between data across different types of companies How data roles differ from consumer banking to investment banking The importance of statistical rigor and running experiments The art of persuasion and corporate psychology in data How to improve interconnectivity bet…

In episode 12 of The Right Track, Stefania Olafsdottir speaks with Emilie Schario of Amplify Partners. Together they discuss impact-driven development, actionable tactics for prioritizing relationships within data teams, the quandary of data job titles, and insights on improving data trust. The post appeared first on Heavybit.…

Some of our topic highlights include: Scott’s journey to becoming “unhireable” Why management consulting is so intense Why you need tool conventions The risk of analysis paralysis The value of career learning vs salaries To what degree trust is earned through work and wisdom rather than title or name Empowering others through data As always, I'd lo…

In episode 11 of The Right Track, Stef Olafsdottir speaks with Che Sharma, CEO and Founder of Eppo. This conversation includes many unique insights from Che’s experience scaling Airbnb’s early data culture, as well as lessons on leading data teams, defining a good North Star metric, and leveraging experimentation tools. The post appeared first on H…

Some of our topic highlights include: How CoderPad approaches technical interviewing for their data team What makes running technical interviews at most organizations so difficult How we, as interviewers, can do a better job at helping candidates see we’re on the same side What analytics teams should track during their hiring process How to build K…

Some of our topic highlights include: The history of dbt Labs (and the dbt community) How community became an opportunity for the dbt Labs team to transfer their internal culture and values outward (and how they did so) The original vision and purpose behind the dbt community (and how it’s matured) How community helps data practitioners glean secon…

Some of our topic highlights include: The history and background of Monte Carlo Why the planning process is so important for data teams How to set (and crush) a data goal The difference between being obsessed with systems and being obsesses with goals How data teams waste time How often data downtime and data issues are tied to a lack of knowledge …

In episode 10 of The Right Track, Stef speaks with Boris Jabes, CEO and Co-Founder of Census. They discuss the impact of SaaS on product releases, the challenges of stale data, insights on data ownership and how product management has evolved. The post appeared first on Heavybit.By Heavybit

As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the episode over on Twitter @borisjabes. Know someone that you think would be an awesome guest on The Show (hint: you can totally nominate yourself)? Reach out to our content and community team. Resources: Jessica Cherny on LinkedIn Jessica Cherny on Twitter Data Angels on Twitter Ironclad on LinkedIn Ir…

In episode 9 of The Right Track, Stef speaks with Erik Bernhardsson, founder of Modal Labs and an early engineer at Spotify. This conversation covers cohort analysis, data team recruiting, and Erik's experiences building and refining data cultures. The post appeared first on Heavybit.By Heavybit

As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the episode over on Twitter @borisjabes. Know someone that you think would be an awesome guest on The Show (hint: you can totally nominate yourself)? Reach out to our content and community team. Resources: Bigeye’s website Bigeye on Twitter Bigeye on Linkedin Bigeye on Medium Egor on Linkedin Music by th…

As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the episode over on Twitter @borisjabes. Know someone that you think would be an awesome guest on The Show (hint: you can totally nominate yourself)? Reach out to our content and community team. Resources: Marc Stone on Linkedin ClickUp's website ClickUp on Linkedin ClickUp on Twitter Music by the talent…

Before we get into the episode notes, I want to take a beat to thank all of you for supporting the Show over the last year. It's been amazing watching it go from a fun way to connect with some of my favorite folks in data to a full, polished podcast (featuring even more awesome people). We couldn't do it without you and I'm looking forward to givin…

In today’s episode, I talk with Erik Bernhardsson, the former CTO at Better.com and early engineering manager at Spotify. We talked about how to build recommendation systems (including whether you should build them at all). We also covered some best practices on building and scaling data teams, what the essence of music is, and whether data teams s…

In today’s episode, I talk with Benn Stancil, chief analytics officer & co-founder at Mode. Honestly, this might be my favorite episode of the Show to date. We had a hearty discussion about data teams and Benn's perspective as someone who started his career as an analyst with an economics degree. Our conversation turned to more philosophical notes …

In today’s episode, I talk with Lior Gavish, the co-founder and CTO of Monte Carlo. We talk about his security background, his previous company Sookasa, and the origin story of Monte Carlo, and much more (including the infamous data mesh). We also get into managing and detecting operational issues, what data managers should learn before installing …

In episode 8 of The Right Track, Stef speaks with Josh Wills of WeaveGrid. They address common misconceptions about data and product analytics, tips for hiring data product managers, and many invaluable lessons Josh has learned from his time at companies like Slack, Google, and Cloudera. The post appeared first on Heavybit.…

Well, Sequel Show fans, we officially have some amazing theme music. Huge thanks to the talented Joe Stevens for our new theme song that makes all my synth-wave dreams come true. In today’s episode, I talk with Stefania Olafsdottir, the co-founder and CEO of product analytics platform Avo. We covered an amusing amount of ground--as always in The Se…

In episode 7 of The Right Track, Stef speaks with Benn Stancil of Mode. They discuss the value of analytics for the end user, the emerging role of analytics engineer, building and maintaining data trust, and tactics for optimizing data teams. The post appeared first on Heavybit.By Heavybit

In episode 6 of The Right Track, Stef Olafsdottir speaks with Laurie Voss of Netlify. They discuss the roles in modern data teams, how Netlify uses data, insights on early data hires, and whether or not self-serve analytics will ever work. The post appeared first on Heavybit.By Heavybit

In our latest episode, analytics engineer and community builder extraordinaire Claire Carroll sat down with us to talk about her journey from data analyst to analytics engineer to co-founder of analyticsengineers.club, an educational community for aspiring AEs. We cover a lot of ground, discussing her data-industry origin story, the fundamentals th…

In episode 5 of The Right Track, Stef is joined by Elena Dyachkova of Peloton. They discuss the intersection of fitness and data, as well as the tools Peloton uses for data management, governance, and analytics. The post appeared first on Heavybit.By Heavybit

In this live episode with Snowplow CEO and Co-founder Alex Dean, we dive into all things Snowplow and data collection. Alex runs us through the history of Snowplow--how the company was born and how it evolved--as well as what parts of the platform have grown in complexity. We break down what it means to think about events in a mind-frame of abundan…

In this live recording, I'm joined by Nick Schrock, the creator of Dagster.By Census

In episode 4 of The Right Track, Stef speaks with Claire Armstrong of Fender. They unpack the digital products Claire’s overseen at Fender, how her career has interwoven her passions for both music and tech, and tactics for approaching data with user empathy in mind. The post appeared first on Heavybit.…

In episode 3 of The Right Track, Stef is joined by Nick Threapleton of Culture Amp. They discuss tactics for building data cultures, Nick’s journey from marketing analytics to product analytics, and empowering teams to use data in their work. The post appeared first on Heavybit.By Heavybit

In episode 2 of The Right Track, Stef speaks with Maura Church of Patreon. They examine data literacy within orgs, the democratization of data science, and tactics for integrating data scientists into product teams. The post appeared first on Heavybit.By Heavybit

In April 2021, we hosted our first Operational Analytics Conference on Clubhouse. This is the full recording of the first session talking about the next General of Data Tool with this panel Boris Jabes - Founder & CEO at Census Christophe Bogaert - head of data platform at Tasman Analytics Scott Breitenother - Founder of Brooklyn Data Co. (and the …

In April 2021, we hosted our first Operational Analytics Conference on Clubhouse. This is the full recording of the fith session talking about the next data in product management with the following panel: Boris Jabes - Founder & CEO at Census Jeff Feng - a PM at Google Adam Kinney - principal PM at Mixpanel James Mayfield - co-founder of Transform …

In April 2021, we hosted our first Operational Analytics Conference on Clubhouse. This is the full recording of the fourth session talking about the Building and Leading Modern Data Teams next General with the following panel Rachel Bradley-Haas- Co-founder of Big Time Data Joey Freund - Data Development Manager at Shopify Garegin Ordyan- Director …

In April 2021, we hosted our first Operational Analytics Conference on Clubhouse. This is the full recording of the third session talking about the worse data mistakes with the following panel Julie Beynon - Head of Analytics at Clearbit Jeff Sloan - Data Product Manager for Treatwell Olya Tanner, Customer Data Architect here at Census Brooks Taylo…

In April 2021, we hosted our first Operational Analytics Conference on Clubhouse. This is the full recording of the second session talking about the Data-Driven Culture. Our panel is Michelle Ballen-Griffin - Head of Data and Analytics at Billie Jeff Ignacio - Head of Growth and Revenue Operations at Upkeep Sean Lynch - a co-founder here at Census …

In April 2021, we hosted our first Operational Analytics Conference on Clubhouse. This is the full recording of the first session talking about the next General of Data Tool with this panel Boris Jabes, - Founder and CEO of Census Martin Casado- General Partner at a16z George Fraser - CEO of Fivetran Jeremiah Lowin - Founder & CEO of Prefect Barr M…

In this debut episode of The Right Track, Stef Olafsdottir of Avo speaks with John Cutler of Amplitude. They discuss the growing proximity of product teams to customers, managing organizational inertia, and building better data cultures. The post appeared first on Heavybit.By Heavybit

Welcome to The Right Track, the podcast for people building data cultures. We’ll hear from leaders in engineering, product, and data, as they share their frustrating and inspiring stories on building the best products for their customers by mastering outcome-driven development, self-serve analytics, and great data culture. The Right Track is hosted…

In this episode, we talk with TJ; He's the head of data at the largest streaming service “you’ve never heard of.”By Census

In this live recording, I'm joined by Olya Kudriavtseva - Head of Data @ Wave.tv Taylor Murphy - Data Lead @ Gitlab/Metlano Seth Rosen - Co-founder @ Hashpath James Densmore - Dir of Data Infrastructure @ Hubspot We ended up talking about the difference between the various data-related engineering jobs.…

In this initial episode our guests were: George @ Fivetran Tristan @ dbt Arjun @ Materialize We discussed why we built our companies, the past, present and future of data warehouses, what data teams will look like in the future and how all of this will affect what we do every day.By Census