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**The Sequel Show**

Your next favorite data podcast, hosted by Boris Jabes, CEO of Census, and featuring all the data nerds you know and love.

Brought to you by Census. https://getcensus.com

Latest Episodes:

What you should do when you mess up your data w/ Benn Stancil, Founder & CAO @ Mode Oct 20, 2022

Show notes

Some of our topic highlights include:

Confidence intervals and precision needs vs wants
The Spam bot problem and issuing corrections
Shipping to vision vs shipping to need (and knowing when to say no)
Market-based economy for data asks
The Microsoft SQL servers con
Analytics-driven change rather than product team-driven change

As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the episode over on Twitter @borisjabes.

Want to discuss the best practices we covered in this episode? Come hang out in The Operational Analytics Club, where all your favorite data leaders gather to sharpen their skills.

Know someone that you think would be an awesome guest on The Show (hint: you can totally nominate yourself)? Reach out to our content and community team.

Resources:

Music by the talented Joe Stevens: https://www.joestevenssound.com/

The value of investing in your data w/ Cyril Marques, Founder & CEO @ Montreal Analytics Oct 06, 2022

Show notes

Some of our topic highlights include:

His background and path to founding Montreal Analytics
The importance of investing in your data
Why clients trust Cyril and his team
How Montreal Analytics leads organizations in the right direction
Learning through trial and error
Whether a shared data stack is the best path forward

As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the episode over on Twitter @borisjabes.

Want to discuss the best practices we covered in this episode? Come hang out in The Operational Analytics Club, where all your favorite data leaders gather to sharpen their skills.

Know someone that you think would be an awesome guest on The Show (hint: you can totally nominate yourself)? Reach out to our content and community team.

Resources:

Music by the talented Joe Stevens: https://www.joestevenssound.com/

The role of efficiency, automation, & collaboration in the modern sales era w/ Peter Kazanjy, Co-founder & CRO of Atrium Sep 29, 2022

Show notes

Some of our topic highlights include:

The right amount of precision in different scenarios
What modern sales is (and what you need to be successful)
Why salespeople are crucial to your customers
Using automation to inform sales behavior
The trick for identifying talent before you have the data and track record
The importance of pipeline hygiene versus “being good at sales”
Remote work vs clustered work

As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the episode over on Twitter @borisjabes.

Want to discuss the best practices we covered in this episode? Come hang out in The Operational Analytics Club, where all your favorite data leaders gather to sharpen their skills.

Know someone that you think would be an awesome guest on The Show (hint: you can totally nominate yourself)? Reach out to our content and community team.

Resources:

Music by the talented Joe Stevens: https://www.joestevenssound.com/

Getting to the “science” in data science w/ Sarah Krasnik, data consultant & advisor Aug 18, 2022

Show notes

Some of our topic highlights include:

How Sarah got into the world of data
Data modeling vs data building (and depth vs variety)
The organizational pieces that need to fall in place before you get to the science in data science
How experience in sales helps with technical product translation
Why Sarah started writing (and what she gets out of it)
UI power features and their feasibility
The code vs no-code debate

As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the episode over on Twitter @borisjabes.

Want to discuss the best practices we covered in this episode? Come hang out in The Operational Analytics Club, where all your favorite data leaders gather to sharpen their skills.

Know someone that you think would be an awesome guest on The Show (hint: you can totally nominate yourself)? Reach out to our content and community team.

Resources:

Music by the talented Joe Stevens: https://www.joestevenssound.com/

Tipping points: How individual decisions make big impacts in data careers & data teams w/ Emily Hawkins, data engineering manager @ Drizly (LIVE @ Summer Community Days) Aug 11, 2022

Show notes

Some of our topic highlights include:

Emily’s background, her journey to data, and what she does at Drizly
Answers to your burning questions, like: What type of alcohol is the most popular?
How Emily moved up the data ranks from engineer to manager
Value of optimizing old vs building new
The evolution of data sharing throughout Emily’s career
How data engineers and data analysts differ at Drizly

As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the episode over on Twitter @borisjabes.

Want to discuss the best practices we covered in this episode? Come hang out in The Operational Analytics Club, where all your favorite data leaders gather to sharpen their skills.

Know someone that you think would be an awesome guest on The Show (hint: you can totally nominate yourself)? Reach out to our content and community team.

Resources:

Music by the talented Joe Stevens: https://www.joestevenssound.com/

How an understanding of human psychology can create an impactful data story w/ Jessica Zhang, data scientist @ Notion Jul 14, 2022

Show notes

Some of our topic highlights include:

Jessica’s early career in banking
Differences between data across different types of companies
How data roles differ from consumer banking to investment banking
The importance of statistical rigor and running experiments
The art of persuasion and corporate psychology in data
How to improve interconnectivity between departments
What B2B SaaS companies can learn from B2C companies
Striking the right balance in data

As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the episode over on Twitter @borisjabes.

Want to discuss the best practices we covered in this episode? Come hang out in The Operational Analytics Club, where all your favorite data leaders gather to sharpen their skills.

Know someone that you think would be an awesome guest on The Show (hint: you can totally nominate yourself)? Reach out to our content and community team.

Resources:

Music by the talented Joe Stevens: https://www.joestevenssound.com/

Building a culture that prioritizes learning opportunities w/ Scott Breitenother, founder and CEO of Brooklyn Data Co. Jun 23, 2022

Show notes

Some of our topic highlights include:

Scott’s journey to becoming “unhireable”
Why management consulting is so intense
Why you need tool conventions
The risk of analysis paralysis
The value of career learning vs salaries
To what degree trust is earned through work and wisdom rather than title or name
Empowering others through data

As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the episode over on Twitter @borisjabes.

Want to discuss the best practices we covered in this episode? Come hang out in The Operational Analytics Club, where all your favorite data leaders gather to sharpen their skills.

Know someone that you think would be an awesome guest on The Show (hint: you can totally nominate yourself)? Reach out to our content and community team.

Resources:

Music by the talented Joe Stevens: https://www.joestevenssound.com/

Building a better future for interviewing and evaluating technical talent w/ David Corea, senior analytics manager at CoderPad May 27, 2022

Show notes

Some of our topic highlights include:

How CoderPad approaches technical interviewing for their data team
What makes running technical interviews at most organizations so difficult
How we, as interviewers, can do a better job at helping candidates see we’re on the same side
What analytics teams should track during their hiring process
How to build KPIs that reflect your rate of learning in your organization
The five “whys” (and how to ask them)

As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the episode over on Twitter @borisjabes.

Want to discuss the best practices we covered in this episode? Come hang out in The Operational Analytics Club, where all your favorite data leaders gather to sharpen their skills.

Know someone that you think would be an awesome guest on The Show (hint: you can totally nominate yourself)? Reach out to our content and community team.

Resources:

Music by the talented Joe Stevens.

How community supports, inspires & pushes the data industry to learn faster w/ Tristan Handy, founder and CEO of dbt Labs May 12, 2022

Show notes

Some of our topic highlights include:

The history of dbt Labs (and the dbt community)
How community became an opportunity for the dbt Labs team to transfer their internal culture and values outward (and how they did so)
The original vision and purpose behind the dbt community (and how it’s matured)
How community helps data practitioners glean second-hand gold from software engineering (and what this means for functional engineering)
How real time is real time enough?
How to help engineers better conceptualize the world of modern data
The bull and bear cases for the semantic layer
If data and analytics will develop into a singular-language world

As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the episode over on Twitter @borisjabes.

Want to discuss the best practices we covered in this episode? Come hang out in The Operational Analytics Club, where all your favorite data leaders gather.

Know someone that you think would be an awesome guest on The Show (hint: you can totally nominate yourself)? Reach out to our content and community team.

Resources:

Music by the talented Joe Stevens.

How to choose what goals, metrics, and systems to obsess over with Barr Moses, Co-founder & CEO of Monte Carlo Data Apr 04, 2022

Show notes

Some of our topic highlights include:

The history and background of Monte Carlo
Why the planning process is so important for data teams
How to set (and crush) a data goal
The difference between being obsessed with systems and being obsesses with goals
How data teams waste time
How often data downtime and data issues are tied to a lack of knowledge transfer and process within an org
How we can continue to improve the corporate culture around data

As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the episode over on Twitter @borisjabes.

Want to discuss the best practices we covered in this episode? Come hang out in The Operational Analytics Club, where all your favorite data leaders gather.

Know someone that you think would be an awesome guest on The Show (hint: you can totally nominate yourself)? Reach out to our content and community team.

Resources:

Music by the talented Joe Stevens.