87: Why Is Now the Golden Age of Data Analytics? With Cindi Howson of ThoughtSpot

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Cindi’s career journey (2:36)
• Major shifts in analytics (6:34)
• Where we are in formation of the modern analytics cloud (9:07)
• The process of moving into the cloud (11:01)
• How to accelerate the digital transformation (17:29)
• Common patterns amongst company cultures (19:42)
• Data regulations affecting change (22:34)
• ThoughtSpot customer base (24:06)
• The need to know SQL (27:42)
• Power users leveraging the AI Insights (31:24)
• Who should audit technology (32:33)
• The ways that education is happening best (36:28)
• Stuck in descriptive analytics (40:43)
• Changes in company structure (43:54)
• Defining an analytics engineer (46:57)
• The impact on IT as a function (50:33)
• Enjoying data analytics (53:06)

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