

Val Kroll (she/her)
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@valkroll
Likes: deep dish pizza, numbers, yoga. Dislikes: pennies, horror movies, white sox fans. Is: thoughtful, sarcastic, driven.



Have you ever wished you could just hit a big "reset" button on your analytics program? Not on the data collection—on the processes and approaches in place for putting that data to meaningful use? You're not alone. thefocus.factsandfeelings.io/the-signs-that…

The data best suited to validate a hypothesis? It's useful to think of options as a ladder of evidence types: anecdotal, descriptive, & scientific. This is very different from the alliterative trope of: descriptive > diagnostic > descriptive > predictive. youtu.be/u_TPEpxou6E

Our Head of Solutions co-authored a book, which we think is great! We're so proud, and it's some great content. That doesn't mean we're not going to push him outside of his comfort zone with some of the promotion of it.



Do you suspect that you and your organization might be doing analytics the wrong way? Well, stop that! Check out this overview of @tgwilson's recently published book to get some thoughts on how: thefocus.factsandfeelings.io/analytics-the-…

Have you already put your annual plan on a shelf, or is it actively guiding your team's work? @tgwilson has some thoughts on ensuring it's the latter: thefocus.factsandfeelings.io/theres-gold-to…





Data storytelling. Easy to say. Popular to pine for. Surprisingly multi-faceted. @tgwilson took a swing at enumerating those facets: thefocus.factsandfeelings.io/once-upon-a-me…

Annual Planning doesn't have to be an eyeroll 🙄 Read more in this article about how to turn all that effort you have to put into anyways into something valuable for you and your teams! thefocus.factsandfeelings.io/reclaim-the-va…

Have you ever tried to quantify the actual cost of yada yada annual planning? 💸 @mattywish illuminates some of those hidden costs in this most recent article on The Focus. bit.ly/3XUb1XZ

AI could have been used to write this post (but it wasn't), but it can't be used to automatically find actionable insights in your data. @tgwilson makes the case in his latest post: thefocus.factsandfeelings.io/ai-for-insight…

Budget cuts? Ugh. Cue the "lemonade from lemons" stories about creativity and energy being unleashed from constraints. You got this! (And we can help!) bit.ly/4dSxMkc





