The Data Stack Show - The PRQL: Data Comedy and Synthetic Controls with Evan Wimpey of Elder Research

Episode Date: August 12, 2024

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Welcome to the Data Stack Show prequel. This is a short bonus episode where we preview the upcoming show. You'll get to meet our guest and hear about the topics we're going to cover. If they're interesting to you, you can catch the full-length show when it drops on Wednesday. Welcome back to the show. We are here today with Evan Wimpey from Elder Research. Evan, welcome to the Data Stack Show. We are super excited to chat with you. Awesome. Yeah. Thanks, guys. Happy to be on.

Okay. Give us a quick background. Sure. So yeah, you mentioned Elder Research. It's where I'm a director of analytics. I've been there about five years doing analytics consulting work as a data scientist. And now tell another data scientist what to do. And whenever I get a chance, I'm trying to make them laugh as well, do a little data comedy. Sometimes they're at Elda Research and sometimes for anybody in the data space who could use a little bit of laugh. That's awesome, Evan. So one of the topics we spoke on before we started the show here was synthetic controls, kind of a data science-y topic. So I'm excited to dig in more on that.

Any other, anything else you want to cover on the show? Yeah, I won't be able to stop myself from telling a couple of jokes, but yeah, synthetic controls are great. And we'll dive into some of the technical stuff. Great, well, let's do it. Yeah, looking forward to it. All right, that's a wrap for the prequel.

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