One of the more popular courses you could take at my college to fulfill the finance major requirements was Behavioral Finance. The main "textbook" was Inefficient Markets and we learned about how ther

Data analytics and business analytics are still relatively new areas of study (in terms of academics). The subject borders business and computer science. When I went to school, the only data analytics

Future Dear Analyst episodes will get more sporadic since, well, life gets in the way. Unfortunately curiosity (in most cases) doesn't pay the bills. Nevertheless, when I come across an idea or person

No, this isn't an episode about how Facebook's algorithm and feed works. The data science function is popping up in companies small and large given the amount of data swimming around. No other company

The Google Workspace team announced a slew of Google Sheets functions a few months ago (February 2023). These functions look familiar and that's because Microsoft Excel released most of them two years

This news is a bit old but I figured it's juicy enough to talk about its future implications on Excel and artificial intelligence in general. Mid-March 2023, Microsoft announced Copilot, it's artifici

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When you think of data pipelines, data warehouses, and ETL tools, you may be thinking about some large enterprise that is collecting and processing data from IoT devices or from a mobile app. These co

It's that time of the year again where data professionals look at their data predictions from 2022 and decide what they were wrong about and think: "this must be the year for XYZ." Aside from the fact

This is a re-broadcast of an episode of the Secret Ops podcast hosted by my friend Ariana Cofone. Ariana is an operations consultant and her podcast is all about business operations. While I've never