#203: Is Analytics Addicted to Complexity? with Frederik Werner
The Analytics Power Hour
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The Problem Is That When You Slice Orders, It's Not Going to Add Up
The modern data stack is it's complicated because it's all adding layers to try to get to simplicity and clarity. Frederick: There's this long continuum where it starts with simple and then step two is oh crap it's more complicated than we wish it would. He says if the person who's trying to use it cares about it, they recognize that okay to slice it the sums aren't going to add up but they're going to be good enough. "If you have five or ten minutes to say understand this disconnect hopefully they are willing enough to not see it"
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