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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Dave Mathias makes analytics legible as a set of product, communication, and organizational decisions rather than a purely technical exercise.
Dave Mathias treats data as a working part of product decisions, education, sales software, and organizational change. His interviews move quickly from a guest's background to the choices beneath an analytics program: which information different roles need, how teams define…
Dave Mathias gets you from a sales dashboard to the awkward question: what if its data is wrong?
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Experimentation lasts when numbers are read alongside the human context behind them.
Heidi Hernandez presents experimentation as something teams build through small starts, steady trust, and enough room to keep testing. Her anthropology background gives the discussion its clearest angle, since the focus keeps returning to user context and product design instead…
A practical conversation about role-aware design and UX research in data and reporting tools.
Go Beyond the Data keeps its focus on how different users need different things from data and reporting tools. Michael Guillet keeps the discussion grounded, with practical attention to UX research, role-based views, configurable dashboard panels, and ways to show incomplete…
A clear reminder that data work is a human problem first.
Rachel Stouvet's conversation with Dave Mathias and Matt Jesser keeps circling back to a simple point: analytics work tends to fail less because of the tools than because of the people around them.
A practical look at how institutions use data to understand learning and improve measurement.
David Niemi frames learning analytics as a practical problem: how schools use data to improve measurement and instruction. The conversation stays close to the work as it moves from Kaplan's measurement and evaluation work into the different sources institutions can bring…
A practical discussion of how audience and setting shape the right data visualization choice.
Kristen Sosulski treats data visualization as a matter of judgment, not decoration. The discussion keeps returning to audience, setting, and storytelling, weighing when a graphic should stay static and when interactivity earns its place, especially across live and online…
AI research, explained by the people doing it.
Talking shop with the people behind data products
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
Dave Mathias welcomes Heidi Hernandez for a conversation about building a culture of experimentation.
Dave Mathias talks with Michael Guillet about bringing product thinking and data thinking closer together.
Rachel Stouvet joins Dave Mathias and Matt Jesser for a conversation about data work.
An interview with Brian O'Neill, founder of Designing for Analytics, discussing his work in UX design for data products and his background as a percussionist.
David Niemey makes the case for looking at learning through evidence.
Kristen Sosolsky joins Dave Mathias and Matt Jesser for a conversation about data visualization and the choices that make it work well.