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Robert Yi

Chief Product Officer, Hyperquery

Robert Yi is a Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Hyperquery, a new kind of data notebook for teams. Previously, he spent time at Airbnb and Wayfair, working across a wide range of projects in data science, product analytics, and open-source. Before that, he earned his Ph.D. in geophysics from MIT and his bachelor's in physics from Harvard. Find him on Twitter: @imrobertyi.

Robert Yi

Sessions / 2023 / 1 talk

  • How to Be a 10x Analyst

    There's a tendency of analytics folks to heavily over-index on technical prowess. Shiny object syndrome draws us from technology to technology, technique to technique, and we forget that analytics is fundamentally not a technical profession. We are a domain in which excellence is predicated on our ability to translate, consult, advise the business with data-driven intelligence. We've gone too far into the engineering world, and lost the spirit of business *intelligence*. In this talk, I'll talk through how we can get it back. Let's define once and for all what a 10x analyst looks like, and spoiler alert: your query optimization ninjitsu doesn't make the cut.

Sessions / 2022 / 1 talk

  • Dashboards, dashboards everywhere: how to fix analytics collaboration

    Analytics is a cross-functional, collaborative endeavor. Yet modern analytics workflows still revolve around tools ill-suited for collaboration: context-less dashboards, overwhelming notebooks, disconnected docs/spreadsheets. I'll discuss why failings in these tools can be held responsible for the most salient problems in analytics organizations today, then proceed to share how analytics needs to change to address these problems. Finally, we'll talk about what you can do about it (and how Hyperquery can help).

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