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The Analytics Power Hour

Michael Helbling, Moe Kiss, Tim Wilson, Val Kroll, and Julie Hoyer

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Attend any conference for any topic and you will hear people saying after that the best and most informative discussions happened in the bar after the show. Read any business magazine and you will find an article saying something along the lines of "Business Analytics is the hottest job category out there, and there is a significant lack of people, process and best practice." In this case the conference was eMetrics, the bar was….multiple, and the attendees were Michael Helbling, Tim Wilson ...
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Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are as pervasive as they are critical to the functioning of the modern world. That personalized and content-rich product page with a sub-second load time on Amazon? That's just a couple-hundred API calls working their magic. Every experience on your mobile device? Loaded with APIs. But, just because they're…
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Cory meets a 13-year-old genius artist and feels like he hasn't done anything great with his life. We're back to talk about episode 6x5 of Boy Meets World including bits of nostalgia, a scene-by-scene recap, and a wholesome lesson to top it all off. Weekly Nostalgia: SNL digital shorts and Vine You can find us on social media: Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…
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Professional development is a big topic—way more than just thinking about what job you want in five years and setting milestones along the way. Thankfully we had Helen Crossley, Senior Director of Marketing Science at Meta, join Michael, Moe, and Val to dive deep into this topic! We explored how to set really good, meaningful goals, the challenges …
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Cory is hurt when Angela decides not to remain his friend after she and Shawn call it quits. We're back to talk about episode 6x4 of Boy Meets World including bits of nostalgia, a scene-by-scene recap, and a wholesome lesson to top it all off. Weekly Nostalgia: Defunctland and flip phones You can find us on social media: Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…
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From running a controlled experiment to running a linear regression. From eyeballing a line chart to calculating the correlation of first differences. From performing a cluster analysis because that’s what the business partner asked for to gently probing for details on the underlying business question before agreeing to an approach. There are count…
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From running a controlled experiment to running a linear regression. From eyeballing a line chart to calculating the correlation of first differences. From performing a cluster analysis because that’s what the business partner asked for to gently probing for details on the underlying business question before agreeing to an approach. There are count…
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Cory panics after signing up for too many college courses and looks to Mr. Feeny for guidance. We're back to talk about episode 6x3 of Boy Meets World including bits of nostalgia, a scene-by-scene recap, and a wholesome lesson to top it all off. Weekly Nostalgia: discontinued items from fast food chains and Bridgerton (season 1, specifically) You c…
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You know you’ve arrived as a broadcast presence when you open up the phone lines and get your first, “Long time listener, first time caller” person dialing in. Apparently, we have not yet arrived, because no one opened with that when they sent in their questions for this show. Our question is: why not?! Alas! That is a question not answered on this…
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You know you’ve arrived as a broadcast presence when you open up the phone lines and get your first, "Long time listener, first time caller" person dialing in. Apparently, we have not yet arrived, because no one opened with that when they sent in their questions for this show. Our question is: why not?! Alas! That is a question not answered on this…
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Amy can't make up her mind if she's angry or happy when Cory and Topanga return from a secret trip to the justice of the peace. We're back to talk about episode 6x2 of Boy Meets World including bits of nostalgia, a scene-by-scene recap, and a wholesome lesson to top it all off. Weekly Nostalgia: ride-on kids cars and YikYak (kinda) You can find us …
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It's the season 6 PREMIERE! Whoop whoop! Cory and Topanga slip away to make their decision about marriage. We're back to talk about episode 6x1 of Boy Meets World including bits of nostalgia, a scene-by-scene recap, and a wholesome lesson to top it all off. Weekly Nostalgia: dollar menus and 4th meal You can find us on social media: Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠…
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In order to produce a stellar analysis, have you ever requested a team to teardown a Tesla and count every last washer and battery cell? No? Well our guest this week, Jason DeRise, joined Tim, Julie, and Val to share that story and others on how alternative data can be used to enrich analyses. Luckily you don’t have to have a Wall Street-sized budg…
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The group is getting ready to graduate, and Mr. Feeny assigns them one last assignment about what they are feeling during the last few weeks of school. We're back to talk about episode 5x24, the season 5 finale, of Boy Meets World including bits of nostalgia, a scene-by-scene recap, and a wholesome lesson to top it all off. Weekly Nostalgia: the la…
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It happens occasionally. Someone in the business decides they need to just take the analysis into their own hands. That leaves the analyst conflicted — love the interest and enthusiasm, but cringe at the risk of misuse or misinterpretation. Occasionally (rarely!), though, such a person goes so deep that they come out the other side having internali…
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It happens occasionally. Someone in the business decides they need to just take the analysis into their own hands. That leaves the analyst conflicted — love the interest and enthusiasm, but cringe at the risk of misuse or misinterpretation. Occasionally (rarely!), though, such a person goes so deep that they come out the other side having internali…
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Friends' college acceptance letters shatter Cory's plans for the future. We're back to talk about episode 5x23 of Boy Meets World including bits of nostalgia, a scene-by-scene recap, and a wholesome lesson to top it all off. Weekly Nostalgia: Overhead Projectors and Fall Out Boy You can find us on social media: Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@thelostyears…
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Data communities have played a major role in the careers of many analysts, but times they are a-changin’. We’re not sure if we’re different, if the communities’ purposes and missions have shifted, or both. One thing we are confident in, though, is that Pedram Navid was absolutely the right guest to invite on to the show to explore the topic alongsi…
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Data communities have played a major role in the careers of many analysts, but times they are a-changin'. We're not sure if we're different, if the communities' purposes and missions have shifted, or both. One thing we are confident in, though, is that Pedram Navid was absolutely the right guest to invite on to the show to explore the topic alongsi…
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It's Prom night for the crew! And Cory and Topanga have a big decision to make. We're back to talk about episode 5x22 of Boy Meets World including bits of nostalgia, a scene-by-scene recap, and a wholesome lesson to top it all off. Weekly Nostalgia: Goodnight Moon and the Broadway musical Rent You can find us on social media: Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…
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Long-time listeners to this show know that its origin and inspiration was the lobby bar of analytics conferences—the place where analysts casually gather to unwind after a day of slides interspersed with between-session conversations initiated awkwardly and then ended abruptly when the next session begins. Of the many conferences where this occurs,…
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Long-time listeners to this show know that its origin and inspiration was the lobby bar of analytics conferences—the place where analysts casually gather to unwind after a day of slides interspersed with between-session conversations initiated awkwardly and then ended abruptly when the next session begins. Of the many conferences where this occurs,…
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After a reconciliation, Cory and Topanga pretend to be apart so Shawn can think he's the only one who can bring them back together. We're back to talk about episode 5x21 of Boy Meets World including bits of nostalgia, a scene-by-scene recap, and a wholesome lesson to top it all off. Weekly Nostalgia: getting a Nintendo Switch and local Dairy Queen …
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As a general rule, analysts are drawn to precision: let’s understand the business problem and then go figure out how the data can be acquired and crunched to provide something specific and useful. Fair enough. Where, then, do pencil and paper and 10-second sketches fit in? Or hastily and collaboratively drawn flippy chart or whiteboard sketches? We…
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As a general rule, analysts are drawn to precision: let's understand the business problem and then go figure out how the data can be acquired and crunched to provide something specific and useful. Fair enough. Where, then, do pencil and paper and 10-second sketches fit in? Or hastily and collaboratively drawn flippy chart or whiteboard sketches? We…
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When Topanga goes to an art exhibit with Angela, she meets a charming guy and threatens to break-up Cory and Topanga forever. We're back to talk about episode 5x20 of Boy Meets World including bits of nostalgia, a scene-by-scene recap, and a wholesome lesson to top it all off. Weekly Nostalgia: foreign language classes and Rooster Teeth You can fin…
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Eric's desire to act lands him a role on a television show, while Shawn questions whether he should remain friends with Topanga. We're back to talk about episode 5x19 of Boy Meets World including bits of nostalgia, a scene-by-scene recap, and a wholesome lesson to top it all off. Weekly Nostalgia: school libraries and The Lion King (mostly 2, but a…
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They say an analysis is only as good as the question that was asked, so for our 2024 International Women's Day Episode, Julie, Moe, and Val were joined by Taylor Buonocore Guthrie to discuss how to ask better questions. Every analyst is naturally curious, but the thoughtfulness that Taylor puts into what type of questions to ask, how to ask them, a…
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They say an analysis is only as good as the question that was asked, so for our 2024 International Women’s Day Episode, Julie, Moe, and Val were joined by Taylor Buonocore Guthrie to discuss how to ask better questions. Every analyst is naturally curious, but the thoughtfulness that Taylor puts into what type of questions to ask, how to ask them, a…
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Cory and Shawn start drinking at a high school party. But when they both agree to stop drinking after getting in trouble, Shawn breaks his promise and ends up finding out why he shouldn't have drank in the first place. We're back to talk about episode 5x18 of Boy Meets World including bits of nostalgia, a scene-by-scene recap, and a wholesome lesso…
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