Live from Santa Barbara! The Analytics Power Hour crew answered listener questions at Marketing Analytics Summit. AI efficiency mandates, data trust issues, and how analytics teams will evolve...and more! analyticshour.io/2026/05/26/2...

Trust is hard to build, easy to break. Outcomes vs outputs. The magic of randomization. The co-hosts of Analytics Power Hour share the foundational lessons that shaped their careers—wisdom that stays true no matter what tech comes next. analyticshour.io/2026/05/12/2...

Major oopsies happen when data looks too good to be true...but we ignore our gut feeling. @arikf.net shared his hard-learned lesson about trusting intuition alongside rigorous analysis on the latest Analytics Power Hour! analyticshour.io/2026/04/28/2...

Research and analytics should go hand-in-hand—but often don’t. Why? Stefanie Zammit from Bang & Olufsen joined the Analytics Power Hour to talk silos, bad personas, and why asking customers questions you already have the answer to is a mistake. analyticshour.io/2026/04/14/2...

Analysts and data workers *need* to figure out how to effectively adopt AI. As an organization, what are some effective ways to motivate analysts and other data workers to do that? John Lovett from SEER Interactive joined the Analytics Power Hour to discuss! analyticshour.io/2026/03/31/2...

Data platform selection—product analytics, BI, infrastructure—is tough! Analytical minds aiming for a data-driven decision tend to do detailed feature comparisons. @jason.quantable.com joined the Analytics Power Hour for a discussion of more effective approaches. analyticshour.io/2026/03/17/2...

"We left AI home alone… what could go wrong?" 🏠🤖 For the Analytics Power Hour podcast's International Women’s Day episode, @adblanche.bsky.social joined to talk AI hype, phantom value, and how data teams can stay in control instead of handing over the keys. analyticshour.io/2026/03/03/2...

Soft skills & project management & guerilla data fluency training & a slew of administrative tasks. This is the sort of work that many a data worker must take on regardless of their official remit. Or, so we claim on the latest episode of the Analytics Power Hour! analyticshour.io/2026/02/17/2...

If an experiment or an analysis turns up "nothing," was it still an experiment or analysis worth doing? If it's considered through a robust lens of "learning," then it might be! Mårten Schultzberg from Spotify joined the Analytics Power Hour to discuss! analyticshour.io/2026/02/03/2...

An analysis without business context is like an Oreo without filling. An analyst without business acumen is like a hamburger with no bun. And that's the topic of the latest episode of the Analytics Power Hour podcast. analyticshour.io/2026/01/20/2...

I've seen a lot of discussion about MCP and intriguing use cases it has enabled in this strange new AI-everywhere reality we're living in. It was fun and informative to record an episode of the Analytics Power Hour podcast trying to get a better handle on that world. analyticshour.io/2026/01/06/2...

It's almost a wrap on 2025, so the Analytics Power Hour kept with tradition and devoted an episode to reviewing the year: the show, the industry, and, if you listen to the whole thing, why I never pursued a career as a professional singer. analyticshour.io/2025/12/23/2...

Semantic layers seem to be getting a lot of play in the data world these days, so the Analytics Power Hour podcast snagged Cindi Howson from Thoughtspot for a chat about them! analyticshour.io/2025/12/09/2...

Reading up on permutations by way of a slick little alpaca shepherd / wool quality example from @jwilber.bsky.social . Visually showing p-value intuition using the observed results from an RCT. www.jwilber.me/permutationt...

Hi, my name's Tim, and I've used Bayesian structural time series while also being befuddled as to fundamentals of Bayesian methods overall. I had a prior that the latest episode of the Analytics Power Hour podcast would clear things up a bit for me, and it did! analyticshour.io/2025/11/25/2...

Stick around one profession long enough, and you're bound to start telling tales of your professional past. On this episode of the Analytics Power Hour, the co-hosts all shared some of the beliefs of their earlier selves that no longer hold up today. analyticshour.io/2025/11/11/2...

More data! More! More! Big! Yattabytes! Well, maybe not. Who's out there defending the value of small data? On the latest episode of the Analytics Power Hour, we sat down with @joedom.bsky.social to do just that! analyticshour.io/2025/10/28/2...

Some newly found details about why that already thin “return” line on Minard’s famous visualization of Napoleon’s march to/from Russia got even thinner: www.scientificamerican.com/article/anci...

The latest episode of the Analytics Power Hour podcast brought Chris Dalla Riva on to discuss how he listened to every #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 going back to 1958 to create a rich dataset. The parallels to the day-to-day work of the modern analyst were many! analyticshour.io/2025/10/14/2...

“Stop giving me tables. Give me the 'so what'.” On the latest episode of the Analytics Power Hour podcast, Flybuys CEO Anna Lee shares a CEO-level view of what makes analytics teams succeed, from productive curiosity to informed pragmatism. analyticshour.io/2025/09/30/2...

Do you know how old you are, your gender, and how much you tend to know lyrics for popular songs? Even if you don’t, this Sunday read from Walt Hickey is a fun one: open.substack.com/pub/numlock/...

What is a dashboard? According to @acotgreave.bsky.social and his co-authors, “A dashboard is a visual display of data used to monitor conditions and/or facilitate understanding." Whether or not you're already triggered, this podcast episode is worth a listen! analyticshour.io/2025/09/16/2...

Some people see Life as just a series of interconnected processes. I'm married to one of those people. That may be how she got name-checked on this episode. Like it or not, processes underpin many aspects of the analyst's job, and that made for a useful discussion! analyticshour.io/2025/09/02/2...

Something of a #showerthought: in 30 years, a bunch of middle-aged folks will be listening to and experiencing Taylor Swift nostalgically in the same way that I'm listening to Fleetwood Mac, CCR, Heart, and James Taylor now.

AI is changing the world! AI is going to replace analysts! Wait a minute. A LANGUAGE model is going to crunch numbers in a reliable AND useful way? Hmmm... The latest episode of the Analytics Power Hour podcast with guest Juliana Jackson thought this through. analyticshour.io/2025/08/19/2...

Fun and useful exploration of specific challenges of drawing district maps as the theme for today's Numlock News—@oliviawalch.bsky.social takes a day while @walthickey.bsky.social is on vacation. www.numlock.com/p/numlock-ne...

The latest episode of the Analytics Power Hour podcast was a discussion about ANOVA with @chelseaparlett.bsky.social . Don't worry. She hasn't changed her position that it's linear models all the way down! It was a fun and useful chat! analyticshour.io/2025/08/05/2...

Very useful explanation of the role of priors (and the challenges therein) when using a Bayesian approach with MMMs. The trick is to think really hard up front, ensure that thinking is consistent and reasonable, and then...keep thinking. 😀 getrecast.com/what-are-pri...

Kinda' fun. The Strava #measure group has hit 20 members. All activities, global membership. @lukascech.bsky.social is a beast... www.strava.com/clubs/measure

BI tools are much-maligned. Is that because THEY SHOULD BE or because THEY'RE TRYING TO MEET IMPOSSIBLE EXPECTATIONS‽ The latest episode of the Analytics Power Hour podcast tackled that question. analyticshour.io/2025/07/22/2...

Judging by the those green banners on LinkedIn, the latest episode of the Analytics Power Hour is worth a listen! Even if you're not actively on the market right now, chances are you will be some time in the next few years! analyticshour.io/2025/07/08/2...

"AI will free workers up to do higher-value work" is an abstract idea based on a vague notion that vast swaths of the workforce are spending significant portions of their time doing pseudo-mindless repetitive drudgery & all they need is "time" to do more and deeper thought work. I'm not buying it.

The latest episode of the Analytics Power Hour podcast was a deep dive into synthetic data with special guest Winston Li. The discussion was all about this sci-fi sounding data, how it's made, where it shines, and where it falls short! analyticshour.io/2025/06/24/2...

cc: @nduley.bsky.social

You get a data product! And YOU get a data product! Wait. What actually makes a data product a data product? It's trickier than we thought (and it seems useful to actually nail that down)! Thus...the latest episode of the Analytics Power Hour podcast. analyticshour.io/2025/06/10/2...

I pretty much knew what this piece was going to say, but I've always known I was above average when it comes to intuition on this sort of thing. 😜 today.yougov.com/society/arti...

Every time my watch notifies me that I've just achieved a move or stand goal when I've been sitting at my desk typing for over an hour.

Every analyst finds themselves grappling with the curse of knowledge on a regular basis: the name of the metric makes it sound simple, but the actual definition has nuance. What to do‽ analyticshour.io/2025/05/27/2...

Dr. Lindsay Juarez from Irrational Labs joined the Analytics Power Hour podcast for our latest episode—behavioral science meets analytics! analyticshour.io/2025/05/13/2...

It’s hard to imagine NOT looking back on 2025 and seeing it as a period of dramatic uncertainty. In the hear and now, that can be panic-inducing. Is it possible to harness that panicked energy for good? We think so: thefocus.factsandfeelings.io/being-eviden... youtu.be/U1sJdKb6IIM

The Analytics Power Hour podcast: 5 very human co-hosts who felt it was high time that they devote a sesh to their experiences of and thoughts about AI from an analytics perspective. analyticshour.io/2025/04/29/2...

Wild (for baseball fans). Same play (gets scored as just 6-3, I think? Not 5-6-3?) in the top and then bottom of the same inning of a minor league game: www.mlb.com/amp/news/min...

In his latest post, @tgwilson.bsky.social makes a case for navigating uncertainty by remaining evidence-driven by being simultaneously agile and focused. thefocus.factsandfeelings.io/being-eviden...

Ultimate Guitar data mined -> 680,000 songs -> a "Can't Get Much Higher" meandering and intriguing analysis: www.cantgetmuchhigher.com/p/i-analyzed...

Fantastic turnout for tonight’s Columbus Data and Analytics Wednesday!

We developed a forecast for how the latest episode of the Analytics Power Hour podcast would turn out and it exceeded our expectations so much that, well, it was an outlier! analyticshour.io/2025/04/15/2...

Thanks, Lukas! Great write-up!

Who's going to explain to the Executive Leadership Team that we're going to modern data stack our way from being ETL-oriented to being ELT-oriented? The thought is triggering light trauma from when CRM team introduced Sales Qualified Leads and wanted queries written to support SQL reporting.

"Tell me you're a solid analyst without saying you're a solid analyst." "I cringe every time I hear someone use the word 'insights'." Check! The latest episode of the Analytics Power Hour podcast explores...! analyticshour.io/2025/04/01/2...

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