The Data Coach Podcast: Recent Episodes

Lorena Vazquez

Welcome to the Data Coach, a podcast about how Data+People = a Data driven culture. You’ll hear from me, Lorena Vazquez, a passionate data lover , an advocate for data-driven organizations, and now your data coach.

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In this episode, I go over the importance of data quality, the dimensions that we measure data against, and some real-life cases where bad quality data can impact our lives.

Research mentioned in the podcast:

ttp://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/morse/research/papers/discrim.pdf?_ga=2.164751094.872800600.1597026580-336955722.1597026580

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In this episode I talk about data engineering fundamentals. I want to make sure that regardless of your technical experience, we’re all on the same page when it comes to terminology and the skill set of data engineers.

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Building KPIs YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR01lHgaZes

The Data Playbook YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVbkuiRUJyrgDNRDjpUmtwA/

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  • What is Prescriptive analytics?

  • Why is it used?

  • Where is it used?

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Continuing on the Back to Basic Series, this episode will cover predictive analytics.

In a time when we wished we knew what to do before things get worse, how can predictive analytics help in settling the uncertainty. I talk about how predictive analytics is used in the real world and how we are seeing it used today with the pandemic.

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Continuing on the Back to Basic Series, this episode will cover diagnostic analytics.

I’ll go over :

  • what it means

  • how it’s useful

  • talk through a use case of it in real life.

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We're going back to basics and starting with descriptive analytics? I'll cover what it means, why you need it, and how it's used in the real world.

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What do you do when you don't have a $200k data scientist? It’s time to go back to the basics. In this episode, I will be talking about slowing down and not jumping on the AI bandwagon before you are ready. Walk before you run, that’s the motto.

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  • Agile development

  • Collaboration in data projects

  • Creating a data village at work

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Data literacy:

  • what is it?

  • why it’s important?

  • how to get started?

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Show Notes:

  • What is bad data?

  • How to fix it? (data governance)

  • How to prevent it from going bad again?

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  • What are teams?

  • What is the difference between centralized vs decentralized teams

  • Which one is better?

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Show Notes

  • What are the different kinds of data teams?

  • Do we always see these teams in every organization?

  • Why have these teams?

  • How does collaboration between these teams work?

  • Communication strategies

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  • Why I started this podcast

  • Why it is important to talk about data cultures

  • What you can do to help