October 1, 2022

Episode 23: Automotive Industry Analytics an Interview with Data Analysts and their Tech Recruiter at ACV Auctions

In this episode Andrew Melbourne, a recruiter, Maggie Mai, a product analytics team lead, and John Ghosen, analytics engineer from ACV auctions will talk about what kind of data analytics ACV Auctions does. Listen to the episode to learn about how their career paths lead to this area, the ACV hiring process for data analysts, and Maggie’s advice for communicating with non-data scientists.

0:00 Intro

0:48 What does ACV do?

1:50 What Maggie, John, and Andrew do at ACV

7:00 How is your time split between working alone or as a team?

8:00 What software and programming languages do you use?

9:19 What kind of skills are ACV looking for when hiring?

11:26 Communicating non-data scientists

14:17 Favorite part of being a data analyst

15:25 Professional development

19:28 John and Maggie’s career path

22:40 The interview process at ACV

24:53 Advice for people interested in data analysts

25:09 Resources for data analysts

26:48 Outro

Resources

• StackOverflow
• W3Schools 
• 3Blue1Brown
• Careers at ACV
• Andrew Melbourne LinkedIn 

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September 1, 2022

Episode 22: Ethics and Health Insurance data with Onyinye Daniel from Highmark Health

In this episode Onyinye Daniel, Vice President, Data & Analytics Strategy at Highmark Health, talks about her career in healthcare from the research side, to working at a hospital and now on the payer side in health insurance. Listen to the episode to learn how Onyinye’s background in health policy and bioethics has shaped her career.

0:00 Intro 

0:34 What Onyinye does at a VP at Highmark Health 

3:28 What data does Highmark have? 

5:41 How does Highmark use their data? 

8:03 What software does Highmark use to analyze data 

11:16 The challenge of building a data science team 

12:16 Professional development for data scientists 

14:39 Onyinye’s career path 

17:13 Ethics in data science 

19:05 Differences of working in different healthcare roles 

22:20 Resources for new data scientists 

22:55 Advice for new data scientists 

24:10 Outro 

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August 1, 2022

Episode 21: The Importance of Data Management with Scott Taylor, The Data Whisperer

In this episode Scott Taylor, The Data Whisperer and Principal Consultant for Meta Meta Consulting, talks about how to tell a better story so that your company can focus on the importance of data management. Scott also talks about the importance of knowing your business and his experience working in consulting.  

0:00 Intro 

0:53 What Scott does 

4:25 Scott’s favorite part of his job 

6:24 Scotts career path from History to data management 

11:15 What education do you need to be a data scientist 

14:06 Consulting 

18:09 Improving your communication 

19:40 Using LinkedIn for Business 

20:51 Resources for Data Scientists 

22:47 Scotts advice for new data scientists 

24:14 Outro 

Resources: 

• Scott's YouTube
• Scott's Book Telling Your Data Story
• MetaMeta Consulting
• People to follow 

• • Kate Strachnyi
  • Andrew Jones
  • Dave Langer
  • Susan Walsh
  • George Firican

• Data science resources 

• • https://www.kdnuggets.com/ 
  • Start with Why book 

• Communication resources 

• • 110 Techniques of Communication 
  • Using Video to Build Relationships

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