44: Leveraging Data in a Post-Covid World with Ruben Ugarte of Practico Analytics

Highlights from this week's episode: 

• Ruben's background (2:36)
• Massive shifts in data caused by COVID (4:47)
• Big Tech is no longer untouchable (9:54)
• Accelerations in the BI space (15:17)
• A focus on people and on trust (23:43)
• Numbers are filtered by the biases of the people viewing them (28:46)
• AI trends and adoption (38:06)
• Using qualitative data for insights, particularly at early stages (40:56)
• Recommendations for taking stock of who is using the data and assessing what their skills are (50:06)

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