Data Council Week (Ep 3): Product Analytics the Right Way With James Greenhill of PostHog

April 27, 2022

Welcome to a special series of The Data Stack Show from Data Council Austin. This episode, Eric and Kostas chat with James Greenhill, the Platform Team Manager and Lead at PostHog. During the episode, James shares about how PostHog fits in the data space, why we even have product analytics to begin with, starting from the metrics versus events, and more.

Notes:

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

  • How James got started in data (2:42)
  • What makes PostHog different (10:43)
  • Why we need product analytics (13:40)
  • Capturing and collecting data (15:17)
  • Dealing with drift on a platform like PostHog (19:45)
  • Starting from the metrics versus events (22:50)

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