Data Crunch

Jason Kolaczkowski has worked in both a large-company data shop and in a company trying to help large companies fix their problems. He shares his perspective as senior director of healthcare analytics at NextHealth and former Kaiser employee on the importance of streamlining data definitions—and many other helpful insights. Jason Kolaczkowski: But rather than sort of be the good steward and try and anticipate the problems and make sure that the business never feels any pain from those problems, I found eventually it's sort of the opposite—that you have to expose the business to the pain of those problems to create the level of urgency required to get them to participate.  Ginette Methot: I’m Ginette, Curtis Seare: and I’m Curtis, Ginette: and you are listening to Data Crunch, Curtis: a podcast about how applied data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are changing the world. Ginette: Data Crunch is produced by the Data Crunch Corporation, an analytics training and consulting company. Ja