Nine years ago, June joined a well-known tech company and found an opportunity to strengthen trust: in the data, in the reports, and in how effective the data team could truly be. Since then, the cornerstone of her work has been building trust. June shares stories about improving data quality, aligning strategies, and advancing data literacy. Learn how trust can shape collaboration and impact across any organization, and how to become a true partner in decision-making and business growth.

Building upon her 25-year career in analytics, June has recently added “angel investing” to her list of professional experiences. In this talk, she will share stories and insights describing what she’s learned as an analytics investor, including how she got her start, what it’s like to trend-spot and evaluate new tech, a reflection on learnings from the past two years, and a look ahead at promising new advancements.

A simple recipe for a delicious analytics platform: combine 3 cups of data schema with a pinch of JavaScript in a large pot of cloud storage. Bake in the deployment oven for a couple of months, and savory insights will emerge. Right? Why does this recipe have both 5-star and 1-star ratings?! On this episode, long-standing digital analytics maven June Dershewitz, Director of Analytics at Twitch, drops by the podcast's analytics kitchen to discuss the relative merits of building versus buying an analytics platform. Or, of course, doing something in between!

The episode was originally 3.5 hours long, but we edited out most of Michael's tangents into gaming geekdown, which brought the run-time down to a more normal length.

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