The Analytics Power Hour

Here’s a question analysts almost never ask themselves before walking into a room: why am I actually here? Not “because it’s the weekly meeting” or “because someone asked me to pull the campaign readout.” But WHY—what...

There’s a certain type of person who first encounters Excel and, instead of running in terror, leans in and grins. Rob Collie has spent his career—from the Excel team at Microsoft to helping birth Power BI to now...

If you’ve ever poured months into building a semantic layer only to watch it become shelfware the moment the business pivoted, Jacob Matson has some thoughts. And a metaphor. Your data is a jungle—and a semantic layer...

<p>If you’ve ever poured months into building a semantic layer only to watch it become shelfware the moment the business pivoted, Jacob Matson has some thoughts. And a metaphor. Your data is a jungle—and a semantic...

<p>There are roughly a thousand ways to roll out a new analytics platform, a BI tool migration, or an AI initiative to your organization. Most of them involve a town hall, an email with a link to some training...

<p>Picture this: four analytics professionals, one live audience, a bunch of submitted questions, and absolutely no filter when it comes to sharing their real thoughts about AI, stakeholder management, and the state of...

<p>What do colors, soup kitchens, and mountain climbing have in common? They’re all part of the mental models that have shaped how we think about analytics, and they’re exactly the kind of durable wisdom that matters...

<p>What do diamond ring shopping, Uber pricing psychology, and active user metrics gone wrong have in common? They all highlight our complicated relationship with precision versus accuracy—and how that relationship can...

<p>Research and analytics: are they more like peanut butter and chocolate, or more like oil and water? On this episode, we dig into the surprisingly common (and surprisingly unfortunate) divide between these two...

<p>AI is moving fast. But so is life. AI is widely recognized as a must-adopt technology, but how and where are data workers expected to find the time for that?! Organizations are struggling to find effective ways to...

<p>The one rule about the Analytics Power Hour is that we don’t talk about specific tools. But that doesn’t mean we won’t talk about tool SELECTION! Jason Packer recently released the second edition of Google Analytics...

<p>As Kevin McCallister once taught us: just because the house is still standing doesn’t mean everything’s under control. Everyone’s racing to adopt AI, but has anyone actually read the fine print? For this year’s...

<p>We know what the work of the data practitioner is, right? It’s everything from managing data ingestion to data governance to report development to experimental design to basic and advanced analytics. It’s writing (or...

<p>From a professional development perspective, you should always be learning: listening to podcasts, reading books, connecting with internal colleagues, following useful people on Medium and LinkedIn, and so on. Did we...

<p>That darn data. It’s so complicated and fragmented and gap-filled and noisy that no amount of time is ever enough to truly get to the bottom of all of its complexity. As a result, it’s pretty easy to fill all of our...