The Analytics Power Hour Podcast
1) #291: The Data Work that Lives in the Shadows
We know what the work of the data practitioner is, right? It's everything from managing data ingestion to data governance to report development to experimental design to basic and advanced analytics. ...Show More
2) #290: Always Be Learning
From a professional development perspective, you should always be learning: listening to podcasts, reading books, connecting with internal colleagues, following useful people on Medium and LinkedIn, a...Show More
3) #289: The Imperative of Developing Business Acumen
That darn data. It's so complicated and fragmented and gap-filled and noisy that no amount of time is ever enough to truly get to the bottom of all of its complexity. As a result, it's pretty easy to ...Show More
4) #288: Our LLM Suggested We Chat about MCP. Kinda' Meta, No?
If there's one thing that we absolutely knew would be coming along with the increased interest and use of AI, it would be… more acronyms! And, along with the acronyms, we pretty much could predict tha...Show More
5) #287: 2025 Year in Review
It's the most…won…derful…tiiiiime…of the year! And by that, we mean it's the time of the year when we sit back, look at each other, and ask, "Where did all the time go?!" We brought back a very specia...Show More
6) #286: Metrics Layers. Data Dictionaries. Maybe It's All Semantic (Layers)? With Cindi Howson
Semantic layers are having something of a moment, but they're not actually new as a concept. Ever since the first database table was designed with cryptic field names that no business user could possi...Show More
7) #285: Our Prior Is That Many Analysts Are Confounded by Bayesian Statistics
Before you listen to this episode, can you quantify how useful you expect it to be? That's a prior! And "priors" is a word that gets used a lot in this discussion with Michael Kaminsky as we try to de...Show More
#285: Our Prior Is That Many Analysts Are Confounded by Bayesian Statistics
1:06:30 | Nov 25th, 2025
8) #284: I Used to Think...But Not Any More
As the world turns, a couple of things happen: 1) we grow and learn, and 2) the world changes. On this episode, inspired by a job interview question, the hosts walked through a range of thoughts and b...Show More
9) #283: Good Things (Can) Come in Small Datasets with Joe Domaleski
Does size matter? When it comes to datasets, the conventional wisdom seems to be a resounding, "Yes!" But what about small datasets? Small- and mid-sized businesses and nonprofits, especially, often h...Show More
10) #282: Using (and Creating!) Data to Understand Pop Culture with Chris Dalla Riva
Data does not just magically spring into existence. Someone, somewhere, has to decide what data gets created and the rules for its creation. We would claim that this often starts as a pretty simple ex...Show More
#282: Using (and Creating!) Data to Understand Pop Culture with Chris Dalla Riva
1:07:36 | Oct 14th, 2025