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The Analytics Power Hour — 315 episodes

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#304: I Can Haz AI?

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#303: Funnels Assume Progress. Barriers Recognize Reality.

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#302: It Was a Dark and Stormy Insight...

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#301: It Turns Out Analysts Are Natural AI Crafters

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#300: Are Semantic Layers Really Necessary?

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#299: AI Can (Help) Build the Dashboard. It Can't Build the Buy-In.

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#298: Listener Questions Answered Live from Marketing Analytics Summit!

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#297: Durable Wisdom in an Age of AI Slop

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#296: Avoiding Major Oopsies: Twyman's Law, Intuition, and Valuing Accuracy Over Precision

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#295: Research and Analytics: the Peanut Butter and Chocolate of Data?

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#294: Adapting an Analytics Team to an AI World

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#293: Tool Selection and the Unhelpfulness of Feature Comparisons

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#292: AI Without Adult Supervision with Aubrey Blanche

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#291: The Data Work that Lives in the Shadows

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#290: Always Be Learning

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#289: The Imperative of Developing Business Acumen

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#288: Our LLM Suggested We Chat about MCP. Kinda' Meta, No?

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#287: 2025 Year in Review

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#286: Metrics Layers. Data Dictionaries. Maybe It's All Semantic (Layers)? With Cindi Howson

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#285: Our Prior Is That Many Analysts Are Confounded by Bayesian Statistics

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#284: I Used to Think...But Not Any More

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#283: Good Things (Can) Come in Small Datasets with Joe Domaleski

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#282: Using (and Creating!) Data to Understand Pop Culture with Chris Dalla Riva

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#281: Analytics: The View from the Corner Office with Anna Lee

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#280: Dashboards Must Die! Long Live Dashboards! with Andy Cotgreave

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#279: The Process(es) of Analytics (We Have Thoughts)

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#278: Is AI Good at Data Analysis? That's the Wrong Question? with Juliana Jackson

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#277: ANOVA? I Hardly Know Ya'! with Chelsea Parlett-Pelleriti

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#276: BI is Dead! Long Live BI! With Colin Zima

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#275: The Modern Data...Job Search with Albert Bellamy

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#274: Real Talk About Synthetic Data with Winston Li

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#273: Data Products Are... Assets? Platforms? Warehouses? Infrastructure? Oh, Dear. With Eric Sandosham

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#272: When the Metric is Calculated and Complex with Dan McCarthy

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#271: It Might Be Irrational, but Let's Talk Behavioral Science with Dr. Lindsay Juarez

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#270: AI and the Analyst. We've Got It All Figured Out.

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#269: The Ins and Outs of Outliers with Brett Kennedy

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#268: You Get an Insight! And YOU Get an Insight! with Chris Kocek

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#267: Regression? It Can be Extraordinary! (OLS FTW. IYKYK.) with Chelsea Parlett-Pelleriti

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#266: AI Projects: From Obstacles to Opportunities

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#265: Connected Wellness in the Age of AI with Michael Tiffany

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#264: When the Analyst's Toolbox Includes Assessing the Zeitgeist with Erika Olson

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#263: Analytics the Right Way

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(Bonus) 2024 Listener Survey...Wrapped!

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#262: 2025 Will Be the Year of... with Barr Moses

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#261: 2024 Year in Review

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#260: Once Upon a Data Story with Duncan Clark

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#259: Dateline Data

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#258: Goals, KPIs, and Targets, Oh My! with Tim Wilson

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#257: Analyst Use Cases for Generative AI

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#256: Live at MeasureCamp Chicago

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#255: Dear APH-y: Career Inflection Points

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#254: Is Your Use of Benchmarks Above Average? with Eric Sandosham

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#253: Adopting a Just In Time, Just Enough Data Mindset with Matt Gershoff

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#252: The Ever-Shifting Operating Environment of the Data Professional

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#251: The Continued Rise of the Analytics Engineer with Dumky de Wilde

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#250: Real World Data (RWD) Lessons from Healthcare-land with Dr. Lewis Carpenter

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#249: Three Humans and an AI at Marketing Analytics Summit

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#248: The Fundamentally Fascinating World of APIs with Marco Palladino

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#247: Professional Development, Analytically Speaking with Helen Crossley

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#246: I've Got 99 Analytical Methodologies and Need to Pick Just One

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#245: Dear APH-y - An Analytics Advice Call-In Show

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#244: Data Is Everywhere. Why Do We Limit Ourselves by Default?

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#243: Being Data-Driven: a Statistical Process Control Perspective with Cedric Chin

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#242: The Rise and Fall of Data Communities with Pedram Navid

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(Bonus) Marketing Analytics Summit Is Nigh!

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#241: The Analyst's Underutilized Tool: the Sketchbook with Dan White

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#240: Asking Better Questions with Taylor Buonocore Guthrie

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#239: Non-Technical Backgrounds in the Modern Analytical World with Kirsten Lum

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#238: The Many Problems in Dealing with Data Problems

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#237: Crossing the Chasm from the Data to Meaningful Outcomes with Kathleen Maley

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#236: The AI Ecosystem with Matthew Lynley

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#235: 2023 Year in Review with Josh Crowhurst

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#234: Establishing Expectations for Analysts

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#233: Analytics Mentors (Having One, Being One)

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#232: The Reality of Uncertainty Meets the Imperative of Actionability with Michael Kaminsky

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#231: Estimating the Effort for Analytics Projects

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#230: First, We Must Discover. Then, We Can Explore. With Viyaleta Apgar

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#229: Data and the ABCs (SERIES A, B, and C, That Is!) with Samantha Wong

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#228: What AI Can't Do with Dr. Brandeis Marshall

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#227: Demystifying Complex Data Science Concepts for Non-Technical Audiences with Dr. Nicholas Cifuentes-Goodbody

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#226: Training Analysts to be Curious and Use Business Context with MaryBeth Maskovas

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#225: From Stakeholder Buy-In to Stakeholder Knowledge of What That Means

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#224: The Chronic Undervaluing of Analyst Communication Skills

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#223: Explainability in AI with Dr. Janet Bastiman

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#222: A is for… Analytics. Agency. Acquisitions! with Bob Morris

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#221: Causal Inference Revisited (...DAGnabbit!) with DJ Rich

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#220: Product Management for Data Products and Data Platforms with Austin Byrne

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#219: To Generalize or to Specialize? That is the Question!

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#218: Delivering Value by Listening for Problems with Matty Wishnow

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#217: Rethinking Privacy with Jodi Daniels

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#216: Operationalizing a Culture of Experimentation with Lukas Vermeer

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#215: (A Very) Real Talk about Simulation with Frances Sneddon

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#214: Impostor Syndrome. Wait. Are We Even Qualified to Discuss That? with Julie Hoyer and Val Kroll

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#213: Data Contracts: What They Are, Their Role, and Their Evolution with Shane Murray

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#212: Innovation Through Analytics Within the Enterprise with Dr. Tiffany Perkins-Munn

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#211: What To Do Next?

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#210: Starting the Year with Culture with Aaron Dignan

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#209: 2022 Year in Review with Josh Crowhurst

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#208: Charting Your Path into Data Leadership with Katie Bauer

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#207: Data Visualization in a Low-Attention World with Philip Bump

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#206: AI Through a Social Justice Lens with Renée Cummings

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#205: Nailing the Data Science / Analytics Job Interview with Jay Feng

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#204: Data as a Product with Eric Weber

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#203: Is Analytics Addicted to Complexity? with Frederik Werner

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#202: Owning vs. Helping in Analytics

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#201: Getting to Clarity About (Statistical) Uncertainty with Dr. Rebecca Goldin

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#200: Hey, Jim, You Don't Look a Day Over 200 Episodes! with Jim Cain

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#199: Media Measurement Revisited: Matched Markets, Media Mix, and More with John Wallace

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#198: Live from Marketing Analytics Summit

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#197: Did the Dungeon Master Just Pass the Turing Test? with Hilary Mason

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#196: Offline Customer Data in a Connected World with Angela Bassa

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#195: Web3, Web4... Whatever it NFTakes with Anthony Mandelli

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#194: Can Data Help Optimize the Post-COVID Office? with David Stella

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#193: The Modern Data Culture Stack with Prukalpa Sankar

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#192: One Dimension of Data Strategy: Approaching Data Work Strategically with Emilie Schario

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#191: People Analytics: Data in the Service of Workforce Effectiveness with Andrew Marritt

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#190: I See Your Data Layer and Raise You a Metrics Layer with Benn Stancil

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Announcing Analytics Power Hour… Plus!

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#189: The Many Hats of the Chief Data Officer with Mai AlOwaish

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#188: Machiavelli for International Women's Day with Stacey Vanek Smith

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(Bonus) Women in Analytics and the DataConnect Conference with Rehgan Avon

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#187: K.P.I. - Three Letters at the Root of Analytical Angst

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#186: Where to Work: So Many (Types of) Companies to Choose From!

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#185: These Are Some (More) of Our Favorite Tips

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#184: Psychological Safety and Analytics with J.D. Long

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#183: 2021 Year in Review with Josh Crowhurst

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#182: Making Better Decisions and Being Useful with Cassie Kozyrkov

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#181: Qualitative + Quantitative = A Meet Cute for the Ages with Jenni Bruckman

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#180: Media Mix Modeling - Does It Deserve at Least a Third of Our Love?

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#179: Teaching Data Nerds How to Work with... People with James Hayes

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#178: The Modern Dashboard Dilemma

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#177: Design Thinking, Empathy, and the Analyst with Hilary Parker

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#176: Analytics on the High Seas: Data at the Helm of an Aircraft Carrier with Capt. Paul Lanzilotta

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#175: Searching to Be a Better Analyst with Wil Reynolds

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#174: Who Sits Where and Why and How...with the Data?

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#173: Finding (Baseball) Diamonds in the Analytical Rough with Ben Lindbergh

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#172: Data Translator? How About a Data Detective? with Tim Harford

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#171: We're Back! Plus: "Cassie's Ideas"

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#130 (Rebroadcast): Data Stories with Nancy Duarte

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#065 (Rebroadcast): Digital Analytics from a Psychological Perspective with Dr. Liraz Margalit

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# 84 (Rebroadcast): Bayesian Statistics and the Digital Analyst with Dr. Elea Feit

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#117 (Rebroadcast): What's in a Job Title? Maybe the Data Shows! with Maryam Jahanshahi

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#126 (Rebroadcast): When the Data Contradicts Conventional Wisdom with Emily Oster

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#070 (Rebroadcast): The Case for Customer Lifetime Value with Dr. Peter Fader

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#088 (Rebroadcast): User Research Meets Analytics with Els Aerts

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#051: The 1-Person Digital Analytics Team (Rebroadcast)

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#110 (Rebroadcast): Creating Balanced Teams (and Avoiding Groupthink) with Aubrey Blanche & Alison Vorsatz

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#161: Preparing for Being an OOO Analyst

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#160: Data Reliability and Observability with Barr Moses

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#159: Is Digital Advertising a Bubble Ready to Burst? with Tim Hwang

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#158: The Evolution of Testing & Optimization: Looking Back and Looking Forward with Ton Wesseling

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#157: 2020 Year in Review Episode

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#156: Giving Back to the Community and Solving Talent Challenges with Rob Jackson

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#155: Attribution Without Cookies with Dr. Joe Sutherland

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#154: Podcast Movie Club: The Social Dilemma

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#153: Remote from the Start: Consulting without Headquarters with Laura Stude

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#152: Fostering a Positive Data Culture

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#151: The Rise of the Analytics Engineer with Claire Carroll

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#150: The Curiosity of the Analyst with Dr. Debbie Berebichez

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#149: Making Statistics Accessible with Chelsea Parlett-Pelleriti

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#148: Forecasting (of the Political Variety) with G. Elliott Morris

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#147: The Podcast Book Club

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#146: The Manager/Analyst Relationship

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#145: COVID-19 Analysts, Policy, and Black Swans with Gary Angel

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#144: Landing the Dream Data Job with Ollie Darmon

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#143: These Are a Few (More) of Our Favorite (Analytics) Tips

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#142: Analytics Tribe of Mentors with Jen Yacenda

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#141: The State of Martech, Analytically Speaking, with David Raab

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#140: The Analyst as Cartographer: Customer Journey Mapping with Monica Weiler

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#139: Workshops: When the Best Analysis Is Actually Human Collaboration with Jody Weir

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#138: Pants-Optional Spreadsheeting: When the Analyst Works Remotely

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#137 - Data Science + Words: An NLP Meet Cute for Analysts with Dr. Joe Sutherland

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#136: An Analyst and a CRO Walk Into a Podcast with Michele Kiss and Valerie Kroll

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#135: Superweek 2020 – the Last Mile of Analytics

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#134: These Are a Few of Our Favorite (Analytics) Tips

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#133: Server-Side vs. Client-Side Tracking with Mike Robins

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#132: Reporting vs. Analysis

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#131: 2019 Year in Review

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#130: Data Stories with Nancy Duarte

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#129: Data Accuracy and Completeness with Yali Sassoon

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#128: Neuroscience, the Customer Experience, and the Data Therein with Diana Lucaci

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#127: Is Multi-Touch Marketing Attribution Dead? Should It Be? With Priscilla Cheung

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#126: When the Data Contradicts Conventional Wisdom with Emily Oster

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#125: Modern Browsers and the Destruction of the Analyst's Dreams with Cory Underwood

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#124: Image-ine What the Analyst Can Do Using Machine Vision with Ali Vanderveld

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#123: Ad Fraud with Augustine Fou

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#122: Dealing with Disparate Stakeholders with Astrid Illum

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#121: Onboarding the Analyst

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#120: Causal Inference with Bradley Fay

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#119: What Grinds Our Gears - MAS 2019

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#118: Ethics in AI with Finn Lattimore

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#117: What's in a Job Title? Maybe the Data Shows!

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#116: Analytics Education at Scale with Justin Cutroni from Google

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#115: Build vs. Buy with June Dershewitz from Twitch

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#114: ITP 2.0? 2.1? Whatever it takes!

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#113: Getting the Most Out of Conferences

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#112: Demystifying Data Science with Ian Thomas

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#111: Automation in Analytics with Erik Driessen

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#110: Creating Balanced Teams (and Avoiding Groupthink)

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#109: RAD Podcast Analytics with Stacey Goers from NPR

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#108: Smart Speaker Measurement with Steve Mulder from NPR

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#107: Bringing Data Science to the Enterprise with Dr. Katie Sasso

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#106: SQL and the Digital Analyst with Pawel Kapuscinski

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2018 Year in Review!

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#104: Getting the Data Collection Right with Adam Greco

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#103: Customer Data Platforms Revisited with Todd Belcher from CDP Resource

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#102: Data and Disasters (of the Natural Kind)

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#101: Diving into Data Lakes with Rohan Dhupelia from Atlassian

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#100 - Listener Questions Answered!

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#099: How Technical Should the Analyst Be? With Simo Ahava!

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#098: Successfully Managing the Analyst

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#097: Spotting and Assessing Analytics Talent with Simon Rumble

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#096: Analyzing Online Learning Options for the Analyst with Lizzie Allen-Klein

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(Bonus) 1:1 with Jodi Daniels: GDPR and CCPA (Privacy!) Updates

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#095: The Rise of BI with Taylor Udell

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#094: Scaling a Culture of Experimentation with Andrea Burbank from Pinterest

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#093: The Proclivities and Personal Perspectives of the Analyst

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#092: A Special Report - Data Journalism Meets Business Analytics with Walt Hickey

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#091: Data Literacy and (at!) MEE!

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(Bonus) 1:1 with Michele Kiss: Finding Time to Learn Stuff (like BigQuery)

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#090: A New Paradigm for Privacy with Sergio Maldonado

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#089: Bringing Statistics to Digital Analytics Data with Matt Policastro

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#088: User Research Meets Analytics with Els Aerts

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(Bonus) 1:1 with Chad Sanderson: The Pitfalls of A/B Testing

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#087: Offline Data in an Online World with James Fogelberg

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#086: Avoiding Analytics Rabbit Holes

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(Bonus) 1:1 with Krista Seiden: Growth Marketing

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(Bonus) Hot Takes from Adobe Summit 2018 with Michael and Tim

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#085: Moving Beyond Microsoft Excel

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#084: Bayesian Statistics and the Digital Analyst with Dr. Elea Feit

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(Bonus) 1:1 with Aurélie Pols: Privacy and GDPR

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#083: KPIs in the Absence of a Clear Conversion with Amy Sample

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#082: Superweek 2018 - GDPR, Machine Learning, and Tim's Hair

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(Bonus) 1:1 with Lee Isensee: The Measure Slack Team

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#081: The Career Growth Conundrum: Lead People or Crunch Data?

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#080: Making Sh** Happen with Evan LaPointe

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#079: When the Stakeholder Just. Doesn't. Get It! with Rusty Rahmer

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#078: 2017 - The Year in Review

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#077: Lions and GDPR and Bears, Oh My! with Jodi Daniels

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#076: Insights, Please. Actionable Ones!

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#075: Corralling the Cross-Device Visitor

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#074: The Google Cloud Platform with Mark Edmondson

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#073: When the Analyst Goes Independent with Adam Ribaudo

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#072: The Future Digital Analyst Redux with Corry Prohens

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#071: Reinforcement Learning with Matt Gershoff

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#70: The Case for Customer Lifetime Value with Dr. Peter Fader

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#069: The Bias of the Analyst

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#068 - Engaging with Your Local Analytics Community

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#067 - R You Considering Python? (With Ryan Praskievicz)

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#066: The Democratization of the Data

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#065 - Digital Analytics from a Psychological Perspective with Dr. Liraz Margalit

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#064: Analog (In-Store) Analytics with Gary Angel

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#063: The Trials and Tribulations of Tool Transitions

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#062: When and Where Does the Role of the Analyst End?

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#061: Selling the Value of Analytics with Sayf Sharif

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#060: The People and Personality Side of Analytics

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#059: Display Ads and Ad Fraud with John Nardone

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#058: Analytics in an Agile Organization with Simo Ahava

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#057: Open Data with Brett Hurt and Jon Loyens

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#056: Live from Superweek!

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#055: Systems Thinking with Christopher Berry

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#054: Pop Analytics with Kevin Hillstrom

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#053: Customer Data Platforms with Todd Belcher

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#052: The Year in Review - 2016

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#051: The 1-Person Digital Analytics Team with Moe Kiss

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#050: Internal Analytics Organizational Structures

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#049: The Future of Tag Management

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#048: Social Media Analytics with Hayes Davis

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#047: Assessing Analytics Job Descriptions

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#046: Measuring Podcasts at NPR with Steve Mulder

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#045: Identifying and Prioritizing Hypotheses

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#044: Artificial Intelligence with Dennis Mortensen

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#043: Open Source Analytics with Simon Rumble

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#042: Data Storytelling with Brent Dykes

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#041: The Productization of Customer Intelligence with Blair Reeves

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#040: Google BigQuery with Michael Healy

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#039: In Defense of Excel

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#038: To Outsource or Not Outsource -- That Is the Question

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#037: Growing Your Career without Changing Companies

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#036: Attribution Revisited with Jim Novo

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#035: Is Data Science the Future of Web Analytics?

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#034: Live from eMetrics...it's the Digital Analytics Power Hour!

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#033: Winning with Analytics

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#032: Questions and Answers with Tom Miller

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#031: Personalization: The OTHER Faustian Bargain

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#030: 2016 Predictions for Digital Analytics

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#029: (Reflections on) The History of Digital Analytics with Jim Sterne

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#028 Attribution!

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#027: Digital Transformation with Gary Angel

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#026: The Power Hour Year in Review

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#025: A/B Testing with Kelly Wortham from EY

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#024: Women in Digital Analytics with Krista Seiden

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#023: A European View of Analytics with Matthias Bettag

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#022: Wearables, Measurement, and Monetization, Oh My! with David McBride

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#021: Analytics in Sports with Ben Gaines

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#020: Can Data Curtail Culture and Creativity? A Corporate Conundrum!

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#019: R U Curious About R?

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#018: Analytics Advice for the Recent Grad

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#017: Data Visualization and Communication with Lea Pica

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#016: Digital Analytics Without a Clear Online Conversion

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#015: Digital Analyst Skills vs Talents

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#014: Mobile Measurement with Lee Isensee

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#013: Musings on the Measurement of Display Media

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#012: The Governance of the Data

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#011: These Are a Few of Our Favorite Insights

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#010: Reviewing the Latest CMOsurvey.org Survey Results

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#009: Working with Business Stakeholders

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#008: Building an Analytics Team

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#007: How Can Analysts Effectively Build Out Their Technical Chops?

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#006: What Is the Space for Tools that Aren't Google Analytics or Adobe Analytics

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#005: Big Data -- What an Executive Needs to Know

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#004: As an Analyst, When Is It Time to Move On?

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#003: Taming the Digital Analytics Technology Stack

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#002: What is a Dashboard?

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#001: Becoming a Better Digital Analyst