Navigating Data Challenges and Insights During the Pandemic

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The chapter discusses the challenges and pride in utilizing data during the pandemic, emphasizing the need for quick decision-making amid uncertainty. It highlights the importance of diverse data sets in understanding rapidly changing consumer behaviors and utilizing methods like web robots. The speakers reflect on their experiences during the early days of the pandemic and stress the significance of exploring unconventional data sources for strategic advantages.

In order to produce a stellar analysis, have you ever requested a team to teardown a Tesla and count every last washer and battery cell? No? Well our guest this week, Jason DeRise, joined Tim, Julie, and Val to share that story and others on how alternative data can be used to enrich analyses. Luckily you don’t have to have a Wall Street-sized budget in order to tap into the power of alternative data. Looking just outside your tried and true data sets and methodologies to see how you might be able to add to your mosaic of understanding a business question can be powerful! In this episode we talk about some of the considerations and approaches when you put down that hammer and see the world around you is more than just a bunch of nails. For complete show notes, including links to items mentioned in this episode and a transcript of the show, visit the show page.