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5 Ways To Save Dollars For Your Corporate Analytics Training

Learning and development managers are often tasked with finding the right analytics training, last minute when the business is bleeding and the need is urgent. If you are in these shoes, this short article would help find the best training, quickly.

Leaders: Your Step-by-Step 2017 Analytics Plan

Analytics is not optional anymore. If you are not acing it, here is your 2017 analytics plan.

For Leaders: Your Step-by-Step 2017 Analytics Plan

Analytics is not optional anymore. If you are not acing it, here is your 2017 analytics plan.

The Secret Ingredient To Successful Analytics Career Transition

Frustrated with your analytics career transition? Stop sabotaging yourself! Here is how.

The Athena Boom: Women In Analytics

It was 2008. I had just entered a meeting room full of just women—for the first time ever in my life! I walked back out to check the meeting room name to make sure I was in the right place. I was the recently hired senior analyst meeting the Adobe campaign [...]

Analytics Lessons Learned Paragliding

I recently went paragliding off Pacifica, California. No, I am usually not a thrill seeker, but this was my best option between two scary choices: either glide in the air or jump out of a plane. Let me explain. I recently turned 40. To mark the milestone, I decided to hang out [...]

The Day I Cooked For 'Pre-IPO Google' Chef Charlie!

So I cooked for Chef Charlie. Let me explain. I'll start at the beginning. It was early 2004. I had recently joined Google's AdSense team (yep, you haven't seen this on my resume, there is a reason for it). Google's pre IPO fever wasinfectious. And everybody was 'high' including me ... such [...]

A Data-Driven Culture Requires Analytics-Trained Team

Yesterday, the admissions team from a well-known and respected university sent me an invitation to schedule time with them to see how I might be a fit for their MS program. Their outreach was based on my academic background. So while Haas School of Business similarly contacted me last year [...]

A Data-Driven Culture Requires Analytics-Trained Team

Yesterday, Kellogg’s Admissions team sent me an invitation to schedule time with them to see how I might be a fit for their MS program. Their outreach was based on my academic background. So while Haas School of Business similarly contacted me last year to teach their executive MBA students [...]

Got Analytics? Nobody Cares! Here Is Why.

Often I start my analytics conference keynote addresses by asking the audience to share the issues they face in their organizations. For the past decade, in nearly every conference, the #1 problem cited by analysts and their managers has been the same: their team built the best possible model (read: [...]