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From spreadsheets to strategy: what does data look like from the CEO's chair? For this episode, we sat down with Anna Lee, CEO of Flybuys and former CFO/COO of THE ICONIC, to get her view on data-led leadership and what great looks like in data and analytics. Discover how Anna's journey from finance to the corner office has shaped her approach to leveraging evidence for strategic decision-making. From productive curiosity, to informed pragmatism, and how data teams can build trust with leadership, this is a candid conversation about analytics from the top down. Whether you're embedded in a squad or building the next big data platform, this one's for anyone who's ever wondered what it takes to truly influence the C-suite! This episode's Measurement Bite from show sponsor Recast is an overview of the fundamental problem of causal inference from Michael Kaminsky! For complete show notes, including links to items mentioned in this episode and a transcript of the show, visit the show page.

Worms without eyes shouldn’t see colour — yet C. elegans can. In this episode, we dive into a landmark study that shows how worms use blue-to-amber light ratios to make foraging decisions. When exposed to toxic blue pigments like pyocyanin, worms avoid them — but only under white light. The twist? They do it all without opsins.

We explore:

How worms detect and avoid blue-pigment-secreting P. aeruginosa Why light potentiates avoidance, but only for certain spectral ratios How lite-1 and GUR-3 receptors mediate spectral sensitivity Natural variation in colour preference across wild strains The discovery that stress-related genes jkk-1 and lec-3 underlie colour-guided behaviour

This episode uncovers a new form of opsin-free colour vision, expanding our understanding of how simple organisms read complex environments.

📖 Based on the research article: “C. elegans discriminates colors to guide foraging” Dipon Ghosh, Dongyeop Lee, Xin Jin, H. Robert Horvitz & Michael N. Nitabach Published in Science (2021) 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abd3010

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Fanduel, America's leading sports betting company, migrated all of its data pipelines to integrate with dbt Cloud in order to make data transformation processes more reliable, scalable, and maintainable.

In this presentation, the Fanduel team shares the challenges faced during the migration, including overcoming the inertia of established data infrastructure, integrating with legacy systems, and ensuring a smooth transition without disrupting ongoing data operations. The migration process fostered newfound collaboration among data analysts, product owners, and engineers, with the added benefit of accommodating future business needs.

Speakers: Phillip Tan, Technical Program Manager, Fanduel; Michael Lee, Senior Data Engineer, Fanduel; Harry Williams, Senior Data Engineer, FanDuel

Register for Coalesce at https://coalesce.getdbt.com

Hear from two guests. First, Michael Milirud (Sr Manager, Product Management, Databricks) on Lakehouse monitoring and observability. Second guest, Denny Lee (Sr Staff Developer Advocate, Databricks), discusses Delta Lake. Hosted by Holly Smith (Sr Resident Solutions Architect, Databricks) and Jimmy Obeyeni (Strategic Account Executive, Databricks)

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It's not only the year of mobile...AGAIN, but it's the year of mobile measurement! While our intrepid hosts have all tagged an app or two in their day, they thought it would be entertaining to be joined by someone meek, unopinionated, and inexperienced in the world of mobile analytics who would sit back and tell them how wise they were. But, instead, they recruited Lee Isensee from Search Discovery. Displaying his Bostonian politeness with lines like, "I'm sorry to cut you off again Michael, but I'm not," Lee weighs in on the subject with grace and wisdom. This episode has mobile proportions, in that we squeezed an hour into a very mobile 40 minutes.