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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