Introduction It has become common to hear companies say “we are data-driven” or “we deliver solutions backed by data.” On a resume, candidates often list that they “perform data analytics” in their role. That all sounds really great and professional, but what do these phrases actually mean? My name is…
Data Science
Lucid’s Strategy & Analytics team has the main responsibility and objective of helping our internal stakeholders achieve business impact. The way we accomplish this is through a combination of strategic analyses (providing data-driven recommendations on key issues) and data modeling (collecting and transforming data to make it clean, accurate, useful,…
“Product analytics” can mean a lot of different things to different people. Intensive SQL modeling? Managing and analyzing user data? Running AB tests? Contributing to the vision of the product through strategic analysis? All of this and more can fall under the broad category of product analytics. Figuring out where…
Last year, Lucid Software’s data science and analytics teams moved to Apache Airflow for scheduling tasks. Airflow was a major improvement over our previous solution—running Windows Task Manager on analyst’s laptop and hoping it worked—but we’ve had to work through a few hurdles to get everything working. One interesting hurdle…
I’ve always loved learning about different ways messages are encoded. As a little kid I used simple substitution ciphers and created my own alphabets to encode messages to myself. From different books and my computer science classes in college, I learned more about cryptography. I found that, no matter how…
