The Data Scientist Show

Christopher Fricker is a senior director in analytics and BI at Renaissance Learning. He started his career in finance and later became a data science consultant working with Meta, Netflix, and pre-IPO tech companies doing analytics. We talked about the mental models that helped him grow from a finance analyst to an analytics leader.
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(00:00:00) Introduction(00:01:46) How to get promoted quickly(00:08:40) Power vs authority(00:11:21) First principal thinking(00:32:34) ROI of a data team(00:40:29) How to be persuasive(00:54:52) All Data is wrong(00:56:22) How he audits the data(01:00:52) How to make someone help you at work

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Daliana interviewed her friend of 10 years, Mike Lo, on how he went from a physics PhD to Sales Engineer at Databricks, and fun stories of their friendship in LA.

Mike Lo’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hellomikelo/

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Evelyn was an analytics manager at Amazon and now full time vlogger. We talked about how she became a vlogger, how she navigated her career after leaving Amazon, and what she learned about the creator economy.
Evelyn’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tapiocapress
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