This episode was in response to some criticism Cedric made of Tristan Handy’s assertion that treating “data as an assembly line” is at the root of data usage problems in companies. Cedric clearly disagreed; Tristan was intrigued. They talk about why this ‘assembly line model’ isn’t necessarily a problem, and why a different approach to using data in business can solve many of the problems they both observe in the business world.

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Cedric Chin runs Commoncog — a publication about accelerating business expertise. He joins Tristan to talk about the analytics development lifecycle, how organizations value (or misvalue) data, and why “data teams are not some IT helpdesk to be ignored.”