Blogs

The Healing Power of Determined Hope: Actions the DAA is Taking to Eradicate Racism

By David McBride posted 7 days ago
Be the first person to like this.
In the wake of the recent protests against racism, fellow DAA board member @Mary Owusu and I hosted a Town Hall for members of the analytics community in late June to discuss ways racism is present in their lives. We also wanted to have an open discussion about ways members of the analytics community ...
0 comments

My 2020 Top Consultant of the Year Nomination

By Garrett Mark Scott posted 9 days ago
Be the first person to like this.
Weekly Client Performance Report Featured Project for Top Consultant of the Year An automated weekly email report providing client to client comparative data so we know which clients need the most help. This aids our key business requirement of client retention. We are a business with a bottom ...
0 comments

Onward and Upward with the Digital Analytics Association

By June Dershewitz posted 22 days ago
Be the first person to like this.
I’m here to share that I’ve recently become the President of the Board of the Digital Analytics Association (DAA). Beyond my day job, volunteer work is something I’ve always enjoyed. It’s gratifying to build connections with people around a shared mission, knowing that everyone who gives their time ...
0 comments

How Baseball Made Me a Better Leader

By Jeff Burkhardt posted 29 days ago
Be the first person to like this.
When I got into my late 30s, and I realized the Philadelphia Phillies probably weren’t going to call me to play second base for them anytime soon, I gave up playing men’s league baseball for a full-time seat behind home plate. At age 38, I became an officially licensed and certified Babe Ruth Umpire. ...
1 comment

The 5 types of mentors you need in your life

By Mai Alowaish posted 07-07-2020
3 people like this.
As I read an article in TED website about the 5 mentors you need in your life , I thought of all the analytics mentors in the past 5 years of my career and how each one represented one of those mentor types, and many of those great mentors are here in the DAA community so I wanted to mention them ...
2 comments

The Quanties, and Who Should Be Nominated For One

By Joseph Miscavige posted 07-02-2020
Be the first person to like this.
You should nominate yourself for a Quantie. I’m serious. You should. Right now. You can do it right here . You have until July 12th to do it. In fact, you only have to start the nomination and push the submit button by the 12th. The DAA will then contact the nominee to complete the nomination. What ...
0 comments

Web Analytics salaries in the UK are half what they are in the US. Could you benefit from hiring UK remote workers?

By Alban Gerome posted 06-28-2020
Be the first person to like this.
Good afternoon and greetings from London, I have attended yesterday the amazing virtual MeasureCamp Cincinatti. Congrats to everybody involved, the organisers, the sponsors, the speakers and the other attendees. I am not an expert in tax or legal matters, just a Web Analytics practitioner who was looking ...
0 comments

Resiliency Redefined

By Jeff Burkhardt posted 06-15-2020
1 person likes this.
I told myself, when I started to write this blog, that I would not stoop to a series of references involving the ‘P’ word – meaning Pandemic, while writing. After all, we have been overloaded with negative story after negative story, and one deflating article after another, about the damage the Pandemic ...
0 comments

No Layoffs Pledge

By Alex Yastrebenetsky posted 05-28-2020
Be the first person to like this.
Only a few years out of college, I was a software engineer working for one of the largest software companies in the world, Attachmate. Our Cincinnati office had 250 people; this used to be an independent company that was acquired by Seattle-headquartered Attachmate. One not-so-fine spring morning in ...
0 comments

Lack of Product Mindset is a show-stopper to the Insights-First culture

By Sushant Ajmani posted 05-25-2020
1 person likes this.
Being a Product Manager, I have to interact with both business users and analytics professionals across different business functions every week. Recently, I had a meeting with a Head of Supply Chain Operations at a large CPG brand. During our conversation, he expressed his growing frustrations around ...
0 comments