I am pleased to share that I'll be presenting to the Pittsburgh chapter of the Association for Talent Development (ATD) on Friday, June 18, 2021 at 12pm Eastern. The event will be online and free to …
It’s time to open source your data tools and processes
When I took an empirical finance in graduate school [redacted] years ago, the course was conducted in SAS. I've never used SAS since: it's too expensive! That same course today is conducted in …
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What McKinsey gets right and wrong about the “analytics academy”
In September 2019, McKinsey Quarterly released an article titled, "The analytics academy: Bridging the gap between human and artificial intelligence." When McKinsey (a "Big Three" management …
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Building the data academy: Identifying students
Not everyone in your organization wants or even needs to be a machine learning engineer, but they still have a role in how your organization works with data. That's the of the point of the data …
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Building the data academy: Measuring program ROI
Most executives won't get too excited about building something as grandiose-sounding as a "data academy" to bring large-scale data literacy to your organization. It's notoriously difficult to develop …
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Building the data academy: assessing candidate skills
Analytics is a rapidly evolving field of high business value, so your organization needs a robust up-skilling strate …
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