How to Make Your Analytics Analytics Don't Work

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When I was in college I worked in a Starbucks and I would work there and I was playing that explains so much. Waffle House has like some really impressive process they follow like they speak some like shorthand to each other if you listen. No matter what the process looks like and the number of simulations going through it just remember keep analyzingThanks for listening let's keep the conversation going with your comments suggestions and questions on Twitter at analytics hour on the web at analytics hour dot IO.

When it comes to simulation, we're all really asking the same question: are we living in one? Alas! We did not tackle that on this episode. Instead, with Julie Hoyer as a guest co-host while Moe is on leave, we were joined by Frances Sneddon, the CTO of Simul8, to dig into some of the nuts and bolts of simulation as a tool for improving processes. It turns out that effectively putting simulations to use means focusing on some of the same foundational aspects of effectively using analytics, data science, or experimentation: clearly defining the problem, tapping into the domain experts to actually understand the process or scenario of focus, and applying some level of "art" to complement the science of the work! For complete show notes, including links to items mentioned in this episode and a transcript of the show, visit the show page.