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Stancil: Companies should hire social science graduates for data analytics roles
“If you want to find these folks, there's a really good place to look which is hiring social scientists. So social scientists are trained to think this way. They are analytical thinkers without some of the technical and quantitative background that a lot of STE…”
Benn Stancil: Data orchestration should be deadline-driven rather than task-triggered
“The way we've built DAGs are kind of like, when do I start the, like, when do I kick over the first one, and then we line it up such that we hope the thing arrives at the end. And the way it would make more sense to me is you just tell the thing, I need this t…”
Benn Stancil: Self-serve data tools provide access, not analysis
“It is strictly like a data access tool. It doesn't tell you what to do with that data after the fact. It doesn't actually tell you how to analyze it. And so this access is not analysis.”
Stancil: Knowing SQL and charts doesn't make someone a data analyst
“Me knowing SQL and me knowing how to create a chart doesn't make me an analyst any more than knowing Photoshop makes me a designer.”
Stancil: Mode is a BI tool built for people who dislike traditional BI
“It is a BI tool basically, but a BI tool built for people who don't like BI.”
Stancil: Being data-driven means strategic decision-making, not dashboards
“And so, ah, a very uncontroversial statement for this group is probably that data driven means it is not dashboards and daily emails to execs, ah, it is decision making and strategic analysis.”
Stancil: Unverified data analysis quickly turns into hard-to-erase corporate myths
“Things that may or may not be true end up becoming part of the culture, and it's very hard to get rid of it once they're there.”
Stancil: Technical data skills are learnable, analytical thinking is harder to teach
“They're gonna need SQL skills, they're gonna, they might need Python or R skills, they'll need something like Excel but those things are learnable, whereas I think, like, the way of thinking is often harder to teach.”