33 Tangents

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33 Tangents - Episode #154 - Data That Is Nothing More Than A Distraction Apr 07, 2021

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We’ve all experienced the situation with a client where we know the data they are talking about is nothing more than a distraction. It can be data that they have identified as needing to be collected or data they already collect.

When asked about it, you get the response that “just might need it in the future”.

On this week’s episode of 33 Tangents, Jim and Jason talk about their experience with this, the risks, and the warning signs that the data will either be a distraction or a new toy that isn’t used in 3 months.

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33 Tangents - Episode #153 - From The Archives: Talking Publishing Analytics and Personalization with Todd Schauman, the CS Monitor's Head of Promotion and Analytics Mar 31, 2021

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This episode was originally published on November 16, 2018.

During a trip to Boston, Jim had a chance to sit down and talk with Todd Schauman, Head of Digital Promotion and Analytics at the Christian Science Monitor, who has a great deal of experience working in the publishing space.

While there are tried and true implementation best practices for implementing analytics for an ecommerce site, it’s much less the case for a publishing site. We ask Todd his thoughts on why that is.

With the cost of implementing, maintaining, and running an analytics practice, how does Todd make the case to his management? What are some unique options that are available to non-profit publishing organizations?

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33 Tangents - Episode #152 - The Toxic Cesspool that is Social Media Mar 24, 2021

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It’s not a far stretch to say that the current state of social media is that of a toxic cesspool. Many would say that that the social media platforms that are widely used today started out with the good intention of enabling people to connect with greater easy and frequency.

Today social media allows people to isolate in bias confirming echo chambers. It has devalued relationships to where they are only valued by number of friends and number of likes.

On this week’s episode of 33 Tangents, Jason and Jim talk candidly about their feelings on social media and what it does to people. They discuss the positive and negative things they’ve observed with it and how they are both taking deliberate steps with it going forward.

How did we get to this point and where do we go from here?

Have you changed how you view and/or use social media?

How has it impacted your life?

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33 Tangents - Episode #151 - What concerns you the most in the current state of analytics? Mar 17, 2021

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Digital Analytics is all about identifying problem areas and potential solutions for a business? That doesn’t mean the space doesn’t have problems itself.

On this week’s episode of 33 Tangents, Jim and Jason talk about what they see as issues within the digital analytics space and their thoughts on how to address them.

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33 Tangents - Episode #150 - It’s Our 150th Episode and We’re Doing It Live Mar 10, 2021

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It’s the 150th episode of the 33 Tangents Podcast and the recording session was live streamed on YouTube for the first time. Jim and Jason talked about the evolution of the podcast and all of the little steps that were taken along the way. They also discussed the analytics content creators that have influenced them.

Of course technology always knows when you’re trying something new and this was no different. Technical issues caused the episode to wrap up early but like when trying anything the first time you learn and make it better next time.

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33 Tangents - Episode #149 - Embracing Learning from Mistakes and How That Can Propel Your Testing Program Mar 03, 2021

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It seems like there is a great deal of talk about the importance of learning from mistakes. The problem with that however is that most people are so fearful that they do everything they can to either avoid making mistakes or to hide them when they do happen. People do not feel encouraged to take calculated risks that will provide opportunities to learn?

Why is this the case? Why is there talk about it but fear when faced with it? How can this overall mindset within an organization impact the testing organization runs and the degree to which the testing tools are used?

On this week’s episode of 33 Tangents, Jim and Jason tackle the topic of making mistakes, why people are fearful to take risks, why most organizations are barely scratching the surface with their testing program.

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33 Tangents - Episode #148 - Talking Analytics and Remote Work with Aginity CEO Rick Hall Feb 24, 2021

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On this week’s episode of 33 Tangents, Jason and Jim are joined by Rick Hall to talk about analytics and remote work.

Rick Hall is a software entrepreneur focused on the analytics market for more than 30 year. He has led the development of over a dozen software products and taken several companies from the early stage to an eventual sale. Most recently he led a group in the purchase of Aginity in March of 2020 and is currently serving as CEO.

Aginity’s mission is to empower individuals, teams, and departments to realize the full potential of enterprise analytics. Aginity provides the industry’s only active analytic catalog solution for data analysts, data engineers, data scientists, and business users, enabling them to interact with their data and analytic code in a whole new way. Aginity was an early innovator in Analytics Management and launched Aginity Pro early this year.

Episode Highlights

[1:10] - Introductions.
[5:30] - Sustainable Analytics.
[12:36] - How important is it that organizations have a central person responsible for data accuracy.
[26:15] - The future of retail and in-store analytics.
[32:10] - The challenges organizations are seeing with privacy coompliance.
[35:00] - Remote work.
[43:30] - Impact of remote work on small towns and rural areas.
[52:00] - What Aginity does to build camaraderie with a remote team.
[57:00] - Wrap up.

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33 Tangents - Episode #147 - Sustainable Analytics and Data Hoarders Feb 17, 2021

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What is sustainable analytics and how can it impact your organization?

Doesn’t having less data mean I have a don’t have the full picture of the business?

On this week’s episode of 33 Tangents, Jim and Jason discuss the thought process that goes into a sustainable analytics approach, what it means to be a data hoarder, and how much data is too much.

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33 Tangents - Episode #146 - Answering Listener Questions Feb 10, 2021

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How do you explain to your organization’s leadership that the work involved with an analytics implementation is never finished? That it’s not something that is “set it and forget it”?

How do you tell a client that their analytics foundation is incredibly flawed and needs to be rebuilt?

On this week’s episode of 33 Tangents, Jim and Jason answer some questions from listeners.

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33 Tangents - Episode #145 - The So-Called “Cookie-less” Future Feb 03, 2021

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It feels like we have another round of “all cookies are dying” conversations happening again. Companies are being pushed to adopt some sort of server side technology now or all data will be lost.

What is actually happening? What is the truth? Is it all fear, uncertainty, and doubt or is there some legitimacy to it? Do companies need to jump immediately or is there still time to see how things develop?

On this week’s episode of 33 Tangents, Jim and Jason discuss what they’re seeing, what they’ve seen before, and their recommendations for those that are feeling pushed one way or another.

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