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The Data Scientist Show
From financial analyst to director of analytics, how to get promoted quickly, 7 elements of influence - Christopher Fricker - The Data Scientist Show #085
Mar 15, 2024
01:13:51
Christopher Fricker is a senior director in analytics and BI at Renaissance Learning. He started his career in finance and later became a data science consultant working with Meta, Netflix, and pre-IPO tech companies doing analytics. We talked about the mental models that helped him grow from a finance analyst to an analytics leader.
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(00:00:00) Introduction (00:01:46) How to get promoted quickly (00:08:40) Power vs authority (00:11:21) First principal thinking (00:32:34) ROI of a data team (00:40:29) How to be persuasive (00:54:52) All Data is wrong (00:56:22) How he audits the data (01:00:52) How to make someone help you at work
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