Using Data to Make Informed Product Decisions

Lincoln Ritter, director of engineering at Animoto, shares how they use data to make more informed product decisions. Here's what to listen for: 02:01 What can we do with data? 04:21 Why should a company care about data and trends? 08:02 How can you become more data-driven? 12:28 How can you get more people involved in caring about data? 16:41 What are the tradeoffs when it comes to agility in software development? 18:29 How do you combat paralysis and help people on your team understand the data better? 20:58 Is data-supported a better term than data-driven? 22:50 What’s the difference between data engineering and data science? 24:59 How do you get data in the right format? 25:59 What kind of question might you have that requires information from multiple sources? 30:13 How do you decouple, consolidate, and keep data separate? 33:01 Do you think real-time data is necessary? 35:06 How would Animoto look at data and make a product decision? 39:04 When is split-testing useful and not useful?

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Using Data to Make Informed Product Decisions is an episode from Talking Code by Coderly.

This episode is 00:43:12 long.

This episode was published on Aug 18, 2015.

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