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Mark Cuban Crashed my Lecture, w/ IU's Dr. Wayne Winston Raw Data By P3 Adaptive
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Every guest on Raw Data By P3 has been top-notch, but we haven't yet had a Doctor on...until now! Dr. Wayne Winston is Professor Emeritus of Decision Sciences at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, he's won numerous teaching awards, is a prolific writer, has consulted the NBA's New York Knicks and the Dallas Mavericks, and he's a 2 time Jeopardy winner! He's a highly entertaining and intelligent guest and we're honored to present this episode of Raw Data By P3 with Dr. Wayne Winston
Click Here to check out Dr. Winston's book-Analytics Stories: Using Data to Make Good Things Happen
Episode Timeline:
2:00 - Wayne's history and impressive pedigree 3:16 - Wayne makes a bold statement about a famous former student 4:41 - JRR Tolkien comes up in a random and interesting way 8:26 - The Jeff Sagarin connection 9:49 - Some great forecasting stories 13:33 - Random events and coincidence that lead you to where you are now 17:40 - The word is finally mentioned...Excel! And the subsequent Excel discussion 25:07 - Tenure process in a University, and how academics are rated 34:16 - Wayne's trips to Microsoft, and how he affected the Excel team 39:22 - Wayne's amazing new book-Analytics Stories: Using Data to Make Good Things Happen 45:24 - Does High School math need a revamping? 50:54 - Bitcoin-Is it legitimate? 55:10 - The Gender Gap in STEM Fields 1:06:04 - Excel VS Python 1:18:07 - Analytics In Sports 1:28:13 - The Election and Politics, and a prediction! Episode Transcript:
Rob Collie (00:00:00):
Hello friends. Boy, do we have a real treat for you today because we are welcoming the Wayne Winston to the show. Now Wayne has shaped and changed many, many, many lives. He's essentially the Excel Yoda figure at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. His students even include like back in the day, Mark Cuban. The tagline for our podcast here is "Data with the human element", and I don't think anyone could really personify that more than Wayne. An amazing personality, a great guy, and there's no doubt that he's up to his eyeballs in data and data techniques all day, every day. He crunches data on really an amazing range of topics from sports to politics, to social justice. He's always bringing it back to the people involved and how it affects them. And the man's got a freaking Wikipedia page for crying out loud. So no more to delay, let's get after it
Announcer (00:00:56):
Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention please?
Announcer (00:01:00):
This is the Raw Data by P3 podcast with your host, Rob Collie, and your co-host, Thomas LaRock. Find out what the experts at P3 can do for your business. Go to powerpivotpro.com. Raw Data by P3 is data with the human element.
Rob Collie (00:01:18):
Welcome to the show, Wayne Winston. I am over the moon, seriously, over the moon about having you on the show.
Dr. Wayne Winston (00:01:27):
Thanks Rob. Well, you guys have done wonders for the world with Power BI.
Rob Collie (00:01:31):
Well, I appreciate that and knowing what I was going to be up against today... what we were going to be up against today, I drank even more coffee than usual. I knew I needed more to do battle with the great Wayne.
Dr. Wayne Winston (00:01:44):
Oh, thanks.
Rob Collie (00:01:45):
So Wayne, let's just start off. I met you a long time ago when I was still at Microsoft. It's probably like-
Dr. Wayne Winston (00:01:51):
Early 2000s.
Rob Collie (00:01:52):
Yeah, probably like 2004, 2005. You wear a number of hats in your professional life. Why don't you just take a moment and give us a quick summary?
Dr. Wayne Winston (00:02:01):
Okay. So I went to MIT undergrad. I don't want to say what year. Studied math. Then I went to Yale, studied Operations Research Management Science, never took a business course in my life. And then I got the only job I've really ever had, teaching quant methods in the Indiana Kelley School of Business, which is ranked in the top 10 in the co
Every guest on Raw Data By P3 has been top-notch, but we haven't yet had a Doctor on...until now! Dr. Wayne Winston is Professor Emeritus of Decision Sciences at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, he's won numerous teaching awards, is a prolific writer, has consulted the NBA's New York Knicks and the Dallas Mavericks, and he's a 2 time Jeopardy winner! He's a highly entertaining and intelligent guest and we're honored to present this episode of Raw Data By P3 with Dr. Wayne Winston
Click Here to check out Dr. Winston's book-Analytics Stories: Using Data to Make Good Things Happen
Episode Timeline:
2:00 - Wayne's history and impressive pedigree 3:16 - Wayne makes a bold statement about a famous former student 4:41 - JRR Tolkien comes up in a random and interesting way 8:26 - The Jeff Sagarin connection 9:49 - Some great forecasting stories 13:33 - Random events and coincidence that lead you to where you are now 17:40 - The word is finally mentioned...Excel! And the subsequent Excel discussion 25:07 - Tenure process in a University, and how academics are rated 34:16 - Wayne's trips to Microsoft, and how he affected the Excel team 39:22 - Wayne's amazing new book-Analytics Stories: Using Data to Make Good Things Happen 45:24 - Does High School math need a revamping? 50:54 - Bitcoin-Is it legitimate? 55:10 - The Gender Gap in STEM Fields 1:06:04 - Excel VS Python 1:18:07 - Analytics In Sports 1:28:13 - The Election and Politics, and a prediction! Episode Transcript:
Rob Collie (00:00:00):
Hello friends. Boy, do we have a real treat for you today because we are welcoming the Wayne Winston to the show. Now Wayne has shaped and changed many, many, many lives. He's essentially the Excel Yoda figure at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business. His students even include like back in the day, Mark Cuban. The tagline for our podcast here is "Data with the human element", and I don't think anyone could really personify that more than Wayne. An amazing personality, a great guy, and there's no doubt that he's up to his eyeballs in data and data techniques all day, every day. He crunches data on really an amazing range of topics from sports to politics, to social justice. He's always bringing it back to the people involved and how it affects them. And the man's got a freaking Wikipedia page for crying out loud. So no more to delay, let's get after it
Announcer (00:00:56):
Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention please?
Announcer (00:01:00):
This is the Raw Data by P3 podcast with your host, Rob Collie, and your co-host, Thomas LaRock. Find out what the experts at P3 can do for your business. Go to powerpivotpro.com. Raw Data by P3 is data with the human element.
Rob Collie (00:01:18):
Welcome to the show, Wayne Winston. I am over the moon, seriously, over the moon about having you on the show.
Dr. Wayne Winston (00:01:27):
Thanks Rob. Well, you guys have done wonders for the world with Power BI.
Rob Collie (00:01:31):
Well, I appreciate that and knowing what I was going to be up against today... what we were going to be up against today, I drank even more coffee than usual. I knew I needed more to do battle with the great Wayne.
Dr. Wayne Winston (00:01:44):
Oh, thanks.
Rob Collie (00:01:45):
So Wayne, let's just start off. I met you a long time ago when I was still at Microsoft. It's probably like-
Dr. Wayne Winston (00:01:51):
Early 2000s.
Rob Collie (00:01:52):
Yeah, probably like 2004, 2005. You wear a number of hats in your professional life. Why don't you just take a moment and give us a quick summary?
Dr. Wayne Winston (00:02:01):
Okay. So I went to MIT undergrad. I don't want to say what year. Studied math. Then I went to Yale, studied Operations Research Management Science, never took a business course in my life. And then I got the only job I've really ever had, teaching quant methods in the Indiana Kelley School of Business, which is ranked in the top 10 in the co
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