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The Analytics Power Hour#272: When the Metric is Calculated and Complex with Dan McCarthy
No matter how simple a metric’s name makes it sound, the details are often downright devilish. What is a website visit? What is revenue? What is a customer? Go one level deeper with a metric like customer acquisition cost (CAC) or customer lifetime value (CLV or LTV, depending on how you acronym), and things can get messy in a hurry. In some cases, there are multiple “right” definitions, depending on how the metric is being used. In some cases, there are incentive structures to thumb the definitional scale one way or another. In some cases, a hastily made choice...2025-05-271h 03
The Analytics Power Hour#272: When the Metric is Calculated and Complex with Dan McCarthyNo matter how simple a metric's name makes it sound, the details are often downright devilish. What is a website visit? What is revenue? What is a customer? Go one level deeper with a metric like customer acquisition cost (CAC) or customer lifetime value (CLV or LTV, depending on how you acronym), and things can get messy in a hurry. In some cases, there are multiple "right" definitions, depending on how the metric is being used. In some cases, there are incentive structures to thumb the definitional scale one way or another. In some cases, a hastily made choice...2025-05-271h 03The Analytics Power Hour#241: The Analyst's Underutilized Tool: the Sketchbook with Dan WhiteAs a general rule, analysts are drawn to precision: let's understand the business problem and then go figure out how the data can be acquired and crunched to provide something specific and useful. Fair enough. Where, then, do pencil and paper and 10-second sketches fit in? Or hastily and collaboratively drawn flippy chart or whiteboard sketches? We could draw you a picture to explain, but podcasts are an audio medium, so, instead, we brought on the illustrious illustrator, consultant, and author, Dan White. From triangles, to rolling snowballs, to trees, to Venn diagrams, to the conjoined triangles of success...2024-03-191h 05
Hawk TalkHelbling, Lainhart, and the PlayoffsJoin hosts Tom and Chloe as they take a look back at Senior Night this past Friday at the South River-North County Football game as well as a look ahead to an exciting week of playoff games in soccer, field hockey, cheerleading, cross country and football. Plus we have soccer coach Dan Helbling and goalie Logan Lainhart to talk about South River's BIG regional semifinals victory over Severna Park and preview Tuesday's regional finals at JM Bennett.Bullroast tickets are on sale now to support the Boys and Girls Basketball team. This year's event will be held a...2023-10-3024 minHawk TalkWeek of Oct 31 - Volleyball, Playoffs and DanIt’s playoff week here at HawkTalk for our soccer, volleyball, field hockey, cross country, football and cheerleading teams. Join our host, Tom Frank, as he talks to South River volleyball seniors Lindsey Hutchins, Isabelle Hoge and Mia Keen, as well as bonus guest, soccer goalkeeping coach Dan Helbling. All that and so much more on this week’s #HawkTalk. Let’s Go Seahawks! Let us know what you think of the show by adding a review on Apple and/or hitting us up @SRHawkTalk on Instagram. Hawk Talk is hosted by Tom Frank and recorded each week a...2022-10-3135 min
Eptac Puma¿Eres una persona ahorrativa o malgastador? Andreina, Clara y Juan Carlos nos dan sus opiniones en un entretenido debate.Pedro Rojas desde Washington nos trae las ultimas noticias desde la Casa Blanca. También y a propósito del tema del día, Andreina, Clara y Juan Carlos, comparten sus posiciones frente a sus hábitos de consumo, si despilfarran o son muy conservadores en las compras y que tan “antojados” son de cosas que realmente no se necesitan.Además, nos acompañó el experto Donato Helbling para hablarnos de las bondades de la terapia de baño de hielo que es una práctica muy común especialmente en los países nórdicos. Y es que, en términos...2022-02-1958 min
Buenos Días América¿Eres una persona ahorrativa o malgastador? Andreina, Clara y Juan Carlos nos dan sus opiniones en un entretenido debate.Pedro Rojas desde Washington nos trae las ultimas noticias desde la Casa Blanca. También y a propósito del tema del día, Andreina, Clara y Juan Carlos, comparten sus posiciones frente a sus hábitos de consumo, si despilfarran o son muy conservadores en las compras y que tan “antojados” son de cosas que realmente no se necesitan.Además, nos acompañó el experto Donato Helbling para hablarnos de las bondades de la terapia de baño de hielo que es una práctica muy común especialmente en los países nórdicos. Y es que, en térmi...2022-02-1958 min
From Tanks to TeleportationExecutives by Day, Superheros by NightThe private and public sectors are two completely different worlds that often speak different languages. That’s why people such as Erringer Helbling and Doug Beck, who have worked in both, are vital in building bridges between the sectors allowing the best innovation possible for our nation’s security. Helbling is the Director of Operations for HawkEye 360 and a Captain in the U.S. Army Reserve for DIU, and Beck is the Vice President of the Americas and Northeast Asia at Apple and a Captain in the U.S. Navy, who helped start DIU. The two embody the sentiment “execut...2020-12-1842 min