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- First episode
About Data are Sexy
This podcast is for aspiring and established business leaders. In short episodes, we focus on extracting insights from the data fundamental to your business. It's "Data are Sexy" - a show produced by the US-based Tara Kenyon Group. You can also find us in the Podfolio at tarakenyon.com where you'll find me and the work I do in data analytics, risk management, business strategy, and critical thinking. While these fields may not be as sexy or glamorous as Edris Elba or Gal Gadot, I'm deeply passionate about assisting executives in harnessing the power of their data—Not only to compete with analytics but to absolutely dominate their markets with data-driven strategies that turn data into profits. Join me on this journey as we discover how to leverage data to turbocharge your business's prosperity, all while relishing extraordinary benefits. Now, THAT'S sexy. tarakenyonphd.substack.com (https://tarakenyonphd.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)
- Publisher
- Tara Kenyon, PhD
- Category
- business · education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 May 2022
- Latest episode
- 3 May 2024
Latest episodes
17 episodes in the feed.
3 May 2024
2.07: PODCAST UPDATE
Hi, everyone, and welcome to “Data Are Sexy,” the podcast that boldly proclaims the allure of data. I’m Tara Kenyon, your host, and I’ve got some exciting news to share with you today. For those of you who follow my work, you know I've been bringing you insights through my blogs, the new “Smart Boss” newsletter, and, of course, this very podcast. But after a lot of thought, I've decided to streamline things and offer all my content in one fantastic place: Substack! Now, why Substack? Substack lets me create a more interactive and engaging experience for you. You can expect in-depth articles in the Smart Boss newsletter, exclusive podcast episodes like this one, and even announcements for online Kentara Analytics offerings – all under one roof! Of course, as always, you’ll be able to get this podcast wherever you typically get your podcasts—Substack will let you know when a new episode comes out. I should state that I’m not getting paid by Substack to make this switch; I’m not affiliated with Substack in any way except for placing my content on it. This is not a paid promotion. And I haven’t monetized any of my content, so subscribing to my Substack is free and super easy. I'm really excited about this move and the chance to connect with you in a more focused way—reducing the effects of this “Monkey Mind” of mine. On Substack, I can dive deeper into topics, offer bonus content, and even foster a community where we can discuss data, analytics, business science, and being a Smart Boss together. Subscribe today! Don't forget to leave a comment and let me know what kind of content you'd love to see. Thanks for joining me today on the “Data are Sexy” podcast. See you on the next episode and thank you for sharing your time with me today. I really appreciate it. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tarakenyonphd.substack.com (https://tarakenyonphd.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
14 Mar 2024
2.06 - Data Stories Unveiled: Crafting Narratives for Leadership Influence
As a non-technical leader navigating the data landscape, your prowess in presenting data is a beacon that guides your team towards informed decision-making. As is usual for this podcast, we won’t dive into complex code or intricate algorithms. Instead, we’ll explore techniques for clear and persuasive data communication, tailored to resonate with diverse audiences. This is not just about data; it’s about enhancing your leadership through the art of compelling communication. Join me as we unravel the secrets of presenting data with clarity and influence. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tarakenyonphd.substack.com (https://tarakenyonphd.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
7 Mar 2024
2.05 - The Data Compass: Your Strategic Map to Leadership Mastery
In this episode, we’ll explore the essentials of data navigation, offering insights beyond coding complexities. While the claim to unveil all data access secrets might be ambitious, our focus is on practical strategies and the importance of data quality. It’s not anything miraculous. Rather, it’s a step toward mastering the art of turning data into actionable insights. Join me to discover practical applications, moving beyond theory into tangible leadership skills. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tarakenyonphd.substack.com (https://tarakenyonphd.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
16 Nov 2023
2.04 - The Art of Persuasion: Data as Narrative
Imagine data as the ink and paper of a story waiting to be written. In this episode, we'll explore the art of transforming data into narratives that engage, inform, and inspire. You'll discover how to weave data into a compelling story that resonates with your audience and drives meaningful action. If you’d like to learn more, check out my online course called “Data Visualization Mastery,” presented by Kentara® Analytics. You can find it directly on Kentara’s Teach:able website - kentara.teachable.com (http://kentara.teachable.com) OR, if you’d like a deep discount, go to kentara-analytics.com/ (http://kentara-analytics.com/)courses where you can see this and other courses on business science, data visualization, and data-rich leadership. Attributes: Theme music is “Bossa Jazz (https://www.melodyloops.com/tracks/bossa-jazz/)” by Media Sushi and is used in accordance with the Melody Loops End User License Agreement (https://www.melodyloops.com/support/full-license/) #67244499368. Crescendo sound by Setuniman (https://www.freesound.org/people/setuniman/) at freesound.org (http://freesound.org). Mentioned in this episode is Gapminder's Dollar Street (https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street (https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street)), a free and interactive website that visually represents the daily lives of people from around the world based on their income. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tarakenyonphd.substack.com (https://tarakenyonphd.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
9 Nov 2023
2.03 - Crafting Insights: The Visual Alchemy of Data
Why should you, the non-technical business leader, engage with this episode of the Data are Sexy podcast? Imagine being an art connoisseur entering a gallery filled with abstract masterpieces. To fully appreciate the art's beauty, you don't need to be a painter, but you do need to understand the nuances, the stories behind each stroke, and the emotions the artist intended to convey. Similarly, this episode is your guided tour through the world of data visualization, where data becomes a canvas for revealing insights. It's not about code or complex algorithms, but about understanding how data visuals tell compelling stories. This knowledge is the brush that paints a clearer path to better decision-making, business growth, and a deeper connection with the intricate world of data. It's the most important habit you can develop for navigating this artistic realm. Link to Charles Minard's visualization of Napoleon's Russian campaign of 1812: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Minard#/media/File:Minard.png (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Minard#/media/File:Minard.png) If you’d like to learn more, check out my online course called “Data Visualization Mastery,” presented by Kentara® Analytics. You can find it directly on Kentara’s Teach:able website - kentara.teachable.com (http://kentara.teachable.com) OR, if you’d like a deep discount, go to kentara-analytics.com/ (http://kentara-analytics.com/)courses where you can see this and other courses on business science, data visualization, and data-rich leadership. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tarakenyonphd.substack.com (https://tarakenyonphd.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
2 Nov 2023
2.02 - Visual Storytelling: Crafting Insights through Data
Imagine being able to express complex ideas and findings effortlessly, capturing your audience's attention and leaving a lasting impression. The language of data visualization is your gateway to achieving this. It's not just about creating charts; it's about crafting narratives that resonate with your viewers, helping them understand and connect with the data on a deeper level. Starting with this episode, we are going to show you the skills necessary to become a master communicator through visuals, making your data-driven insights more accessible and engaging. Resources/Sources cited in this episode: Leonardo da Vinci – RCIN 912660, Studies of Water c. 1510-12 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leonardo_da_Vinci_-_RCIN_912660,_Studies_of_water_c.1510-12.jpg). From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. Solar system planets size comparison (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18141684). Author: Lsmpascal (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lsmpascal), licensed under the Creative Commons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Creative_Commons) Attribution-Share (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en) Alike 3.0 Unported (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en) license. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tarakenyonphd.substack.com (https://tarakenyonphd.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
26 Oct 2023
2.01 - Data Unveiled: Your Passport to Informed Decisions
Imagine having a unique skill, a lens through which you can see beyond the numbers and spreadsheets, where data become not just a series of digits, but a map to understanding your business, your industry, and your customers. This episode should revolutionize your perspective on data. You'll see how data can be your most potent tool for informed decision-making. Key Point: Recognize the role of data as valuable assets for informed decision-making If you want more information on Dr. John Snow, visit this Wikipedia link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Snow). This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tarakenyonphd.substack.com (https://tarakenyonphd.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
3 Nov 2022
1.09 - Dominate with Analytics: Creating a Customer Relevancy Model
All businesses want to find some way to differentiate themselves from their competition. You are overwhelmed, and your customers are overwhelmed, too. The data you have on hand today speaks volumes about becoming and staying relevant to your customers. It is the analytics behind that data that will cut through all the noise competing with you and your value proposition. In this episode, I provide a tip for helping you compete with analytics, differentiate with analytics, and best of all, dominate with analytics. Sources cited: Crawford, F. A., & Mathews, R. (2001). The Myth of Excellence: Why Great Companies Never Try to Be the Best at Everything (1st ed.). New York: Crown Business. Kleiner, A. (2003). Who Really Matters: The Core Group Theory of Power, Privilege, and Success (1st ed.). New York: Currency/Doubleday. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tarakenyonphd.substack.com (https://tarakenyonphd.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
19 Oct 2022
1.08 - Strategic Selectivity: You CAN have it all, just not all at the same time
Here’s a data point for you: How about something that promises that 74% of the value of an initiative is realized in the first year of roll-out? To achieve this, it’s important to understand that traditional strategic planning is failing us—and always has. The process never seems to deliver all that it promises at the beginning. Chances are that you have already undertaken the creation of a strategic plan in the traditional sense, but you are stuck. Today’s episode gives you a way to manage your strategic initiatives, create quick wins and minimize losses – turning data into money. Sources cited: “The Numbers Behind Successful Transformations” by Kevin Laczkowshi, Tao Tan, and Matthias Winter. McKinsey Quarterly (17 October 2019). https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/transformation/our-insights/the-numbers-behind-successful-transformations (https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/transformation/our-insights/the-numbers-behind-successful-transformations) Trout, J., & Rivkin, S. (1999). The Power of Simplicity: a Management Guide to Cutting Through the Nonsense and Doing Things Right. New York: McGraw-Hill. Keller, G., & Papasan, J. (2013). The ONE Thing: the Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results. Austin, Texas: Bard Press. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tarakenyonphd.substack.com (https://tarakenyonphd.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
21 Sept 2022
1.07 - Canary in a Coal Mine: Retaining Key Talent with Data-Rich Analytics
Think about this: The canaries placed in coal mines aren’t there to mine coal. On the business side of your organization, your rising stars and key talent typically aren’t the ones mining data and performing data analyses. Rather, they are learning your market and your product and service offerings. With a few extra skills and coaching, they can become a sentinel species for detecting risks to your business and provide advance warning of dangers and better, provide predictive indicators for your business potential. In this episode, I illustrate how business executives can learn to attract and retain their rising stars without threatening established managers and executives in their succession plans. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tarakenyonphd.substack.com (https://tarakenyonphd.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
6 Sept 2022
1.06 - You are Wonder Woman, and Data [are] Your Magic Lasso
"You are Wonder Woman, and Data [are] Your Magic Lasso." If there was ever a metaphor I wish I had thought up myself, it's that one. It came from presentation and speaking coach Joel Schwartzberg in his Harvard Business Review article entitled, “Present Your Data Like a Pro.” Joel Schwartzberg's article (https://data-are-sexy.captivate.fm/present-pro) Joel, being the expert presentations coach that he is, shows the importance of explaining how data supports the major points of a presentation. Data, like Wonder Woman's lasso, are "𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘭[s] 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘸 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘴..." In this episode, I’m going to show you how data draw out compelling truths and give you a few actionable tips for using DIVA – that’s the acronym for Data Insights, Visualization, and Analytics—and knowing what to ask from your data team. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tarakenyonphd.substack.com (https://tarakenyonphd.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
17 Aug 2022
1.05 - Data and Value Creation
This episode delivers a four-step process to create value for your company, excellence for your strategies, and as always, a way to turn data into money. And here’s an introduction to that process – it is grounded in four laws: The Law of Intent The Law of Insight The Law of Intervals The Law of Integration You can find episodes dedicated to each of these Laws in future Data are Sexy podcasts. Source data: “Combining motivational and volitional interventions to promote exercise participation (https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1348/135910702169420): Protection motivation theory and implementation intentions” by Sarah Milne, Sheina Orbell, and Paschal Sheeran. British Journal of Health Psychology (16 December 2010). “Project Management Statistics: Trends and Common Mistakes in 2022 (https://teamstage.io/project-management-statistics/),” TeamStage. “The Numbers Behind Successful Transformations (https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/transformation/our-insights/the-numbers-behind-successful-transformations)” by Kevin Laczkowshi, Tao Tan, and Matthias Winter. McKinsey Quarterly (17 October 2019). This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tarakenyonphd.substack.com (https://tarakenyonphd.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
9 Aug 2022
1.04 - Be a DIVA: Turn Data into Money
Are you a DIVA? I'm not talking about the hair flip, glamorous, “don’t-you-know-who-I-am?” type of diva. DIVA is an acronym for “Data Insights, Visualization, and Analytics.” The Macmillan dictionary defines glamorous as “attractive and interesting in an exciting and unusual way.” Think of how much you could communicate to your Board, your team, your regulators, and your stakeholders IF you could present your company’s data in as “attractive and interesting in an exciting and unusual way.” And I'd like to define “DIVA” as such as well. The bottom line is: If you want to turn data into money, you need to be a DIVA. #datainsights #datavisualization #dataanalytics #diva This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tarakenyonphd.substack.com (https://tarakenyonphd.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
1 Jul 2022
1.03 - The Magic of Analytics: Getting Your Data Investment to Pay-Off
Today’s podcast is all about the Magic of Analytics. Specifically, it is about you, the non-technical business leader, and how to get your investment in data to pay off. I've included three little tips to use when you are looking at your own data. And I’ll give you these tips with the backdrop of the three types of Data Analytics: Descriptive, Predictive, and Prescriptive. The tips are questions you ask yourself (or of those reporting the data): What is this? What does it mean? What must I do? Extra resources: The Art of the Longview (https://www.amazon.com/Art-Long-View-Planning-Uncertain/dp/0385267320/ref=sr_1_1?crid=7ITODDI5DB9W&keywords=the+art+of+the+long+view+peter+schwartz&qid=1656682233&sprefix=The+art+of+the+Long+view%2Caps%2C87&sr=8-1) by Peter Schwartz This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tarakenyonphd.substack.com (https://tarakenyonphd.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
23 Jun 2022
1.02 - The Most Controversial Word in "Data are Sexy"
If you do a search on the word “sexy” on this podcast platform, beware of what you’ll find. I would further recommend that you save the search at a time when small children aren’t present! Of course, I named this podcast “Data are Sexy” for a reason. It got your attention, didn’t it? Today, I’m going to talk about the most controversial word in the phrase “data are sexy” – and it’s not the one you think it is. #datainsights #datavisualization #dataanalytics This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tarakenyonphd.substack.com (https://tarakenyonphd.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
26 May 2022
1.01 - Find Me Something Interesting
Are you among the business leaders that often ask their data analysts to "mine the data and tell me something interesting."? (See "I have data. I need insights. Where do I start? by Rama Ramakrishnan Rama's article (https://data-are-sexy.captivate.fm/rama) ) Ramakrishnan says it's because business leaders are under pressure to show some ROI from all the money that's been spent on systems to collect, store, and organize the data. I submit that there are actually three separate reasons why you may be doing this: You need to know that all this investment in hardware, software, and HR isn’t a cruel version of the Emporer’s New Clothes. You may not know what to ask for. You may be afraid of what you might find. Get the most out of your data investment by instructing your teams to solve very specific problems. Magic happens. You can reach Tara Kenyon at TaraKenyon.com (https://data-are-sexy.captivate.fm/tarakenyon) . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tarakenyonphd.substack.com (https://tarakenyonphd.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
2 May 2022
Data are Sexy
Join Dr. Tara Kenyon as she explores why data and analytics are important to the non-technical business leader and turn data into money. You can reach Tara Kenyon at TaraKenyon.com (https://data-are-sexy.captivate.fm/tarakenyon). This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tarakenyonphd.substack.com (https://tarakenyonphd.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
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