About this episode
Aaron Payne discusses the impact of analytics on decision-making and shares insights from a forecasting project in Colombia.
Aaron Payne, an MBA student at Georgia Tech studying business analytics and a Senior Insights Analyst at Chick-fil-A, joins Kyle Polich to talk about turning analytics into decisions that matter. They unpack a real-world forecasting project with Comfama in Colombia, including messy data realities, interpretability tradeoffs, and why "data science for good" starts with the people impacted.
People in this episode
Host: Kyle Polich
Guest: Aaron Payne
Topics covered
- data analytics
- forecasting
- business decisions
- data science
- real-world applications
Keywords
- data analyst
- business analytics
- forecasting project
- data science for good
- messy data
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Georgia Tech, Chick-fil-A, Comfama
Places: Colombia
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