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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 a ...
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#254: Is Your Use of Benchmarks Above Average? with Eric Sandosham
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It’s human nature to want to compare yourself or your organization against your competition, but how valuable are benchmarks to your business strategy? Benchmarks can be dangerous. You can rarely put your hands on all the background and context since, by definition, benchmark data is external to your organization. And you can also argue that benchm…
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#253: Adopting a Just In Time, Just Enough Data Mindset with Matt Gershoff
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While we don’t often call it out explicitly, the driving force behind much of what and how much data we collect is driven by a “just in case” mentality: we don’t know exactly HOW that next piece of data will be put to use, but we better collect it to minimize the potential for future regret about NOT collecting it. Data collection is an optionality…
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#251: The Continued Rise of the Analytics Engineer
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We’re seeing the title “Analytics Engineer” continue to rise, and it’s in large part due to individuals realizing that there’s a name for the type of work they’ve found themselves doing more and more. In today’s landscape, there’s truly a need for someone with some Data Engineering chops with an eye towards business use cases. We were fortunate to …
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#250: Real World Data (RWD) Lessons from Healthcare-land with Dr. Lewis Carpenter
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A claim: in the world of business analytics, the default/primary source of data is real world data collected through some form of observation or tracking. Occasionally, when the stakes are sufficiently high and we need stronger evidence, we’ll run some form of controlled experiment, like an A/B test. Contrast that with the world of healthcare, wher…
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#249: Three Humans and an AI at Marketing Analytics Summit
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How good are humans at distinguishing between human-generated thoughts and AI-generated…thoughts? Could doing an extremely unscientific exploration of the question also generate some useful discussion? We decided to dig in and find out with a show recorded in front of a live audience at Marketing Analytics Summit in Phoenix! With Michael in the rol…
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#248: The Fundamentally Fascinating World of APIs with Marco Palladino
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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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#247: Professional Development, Analytically Speaking with Helen Crossley
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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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#246: I’ve Got 99 Analytical Methodologies and Need to Pick Just One
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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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#245: Dear APH-y – An Analytics Advice Call-In Show
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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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#244: Data Is Everywhere. Why Do We Limit Ourselves by Default?
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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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