In this bonus episode, Eric and John preview their upcoming conversation with Evan Wimpey of Elder Research.
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Eric Dodds 00:03
Evan, welcome to the data stack show PRQL. 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,
Evan Wimpey 00:30
Awesome. Yeah, thanks guys. Happy to be on.
Eric Dodds 00:31
Okay, give us a quick background.
Evan Wimpey 00:33
Sure. So yeah, you mentioned elder research. It’s where I’m a director of analytics. 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 Delta research, and sometimes, for anybody in the data space who could use a little bit of laugh,
John Wessel 00:55
that’s awesome. Evan, so one of the topics we we spoke on before we started the show here was synthetic controls, kind of a data science topic, so I’m excited to dig in more on that. Any other, anything else you want to cover on the show? Yeah,
Evan Wimpey 01:09
I won’t be able to stop myself from telling a couple of jokes, but yeah, synthetic controls are great and dive into some of the technical stuff,
Eric Dodds 01:17
great. Well, let’s
John Wessel 01:18
do it. Yeah, looking forward to it.
Eric Dodds 01:19
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