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You spend two weeks buried in data. You isolate signal from noise. You build a model, run a forecast, and uncover a multi-million dollar opportunity for your organization. This is the moment that defines your job, the insight that can change the company’s trajectory. You present your findings to leadership. You walk through the charts, […]

Your Analysis Is Worthless (Without a Story)

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August 13, 2025

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For decades, the analyst’s job has been to be a historian. You receive a request. You pull the data. You explain what already happened. “Why did sales dip in Q2?” “What was the conversion rate on last week’s campaign?” You are the keeper of the company’s memory, expertly explaining the past. This role is a […]

Your Opportunity is Unstructured

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August 6, 2025

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You have the framework for your new career. You have the commands to master your new tools. You understand why your role must evolve beyond automatable tasks. You know how to write prompts that get results. This will only get you so far. Using an LLM for one-off tasks is like putting a Formula 1 […]

‘InsightOS’: Stop Prompting, Start Partnering

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July 30, 2025

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Last week, I told you to get off the melting iceberg. The repetitive, rule-based work of the Operator quadrant in my Human-AI Career Nexus is being automated. This is not a threat. It is an opportunity to focus on what matters: investigation, design, and innovation. Many of you know this. You are using powerful Large […]

LLM Prompting: The Analyst’s New Command Line

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July 23, 2025

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We ended our last series on brand strategy with a declaration. The analyst is the Guardian of Objectivity. Your role is to ground strategy in fact. To be the firm, dispassionate voice of data in a world of intuition and opinion. That role is critical. But it is no longer enough. Objectivity without foresight is […]

AI Is Coming For Your Tasks, Not Your Job

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July 16, 2025

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Here was the “Godfathers of AI” — a man who helped invent deep learning — sounding the alarm about a future he’d helped build. In interviews, he warned that AI might soon outpace our control. That rogue systems could emerge. That we may have already gone too far. And yet, in nearly the same breath, […]

The End of the Beginning: What AI Means for Analysts Now

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April 9, 2025

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In the rapidly evolving world of data analytics, achieving success as an analyst requires a delicate balance between creativity and precision – the “art” and “science” of analysis. While technology has revolutionized what can be achieved, the fundamental qualities that make an analyst exceptional have remained unchanged: curiosity, optimism, and audacity. But what does this […]

AI Won’t Replace You, But a Better Analyst Might

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October 23, 2024

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In a previous post, we detailed the process of switching from Excel to R and taking advantage of the numerous advantages of utilizing R for data analysts who are prepared to handle larger datasets, intricate analyses, and automation. But mastering coding in R is a daunting challenge. If you’ve ever been intimidated by the thought […]

Boost Your R Skills with AI

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October 16, 2024

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Discover how LLMs like ChatGPT are revolutionizing data analytics by reducing the need for coding and learn essential tips for using them effectively.

Top 5 Tips For Using LLMs To Code In SQL, R, and Python

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May 22, 2024

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Explore the impact of AI on the insurance industry, from enhancing risk assessment and fraud detection to personalizing customer experiences, as well as the challenges insurers face and outlines why the sector is uniquely positioned to succeed in integrating AI into its operations, promising a more efficient, precise, and customer-focused future.

Navigating the Future of AI in Insurance

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March 5, 2024

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