Maggie Wolff

Maggie Wolff

Data Scientist

How AI is Changing Data Analytics

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Chris Byington has spent 15 years in analytics across consulting, startups, and tech companies, and the last decade leading teams. Recently, we sat down to chat about how analytics has evolved over this time, what he looks for when hiring, and how AI has impacted the role.

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Transcripts available on YouTube and Substack.

Highlights:

  • AI’s biggest gift to analysts is headspace
  • AI tools for analytics are useless without a semantic layer
  • Data teams are no longer seen as magicians
  • When AI speeds up analysis, the bottleneck is asking the right questions
  • Chris looks for two things when hiring - and neither is technical

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