Today’s episode is with freakin' David Langer, people!! (So obviously it's brilliant, witty, and full of laughs.) He fills us in on the most powerful 20% of analytics — the analytics that drive 80% of companies’ return on investment.

Publishing under his Dave on Data brand, Dave's YouTube channel is top-notch, with several videos that have over a million views (and the thumbnails are hilarious; check 'em out). He is an exceptionally accomplished data scientist and software engineer, including spending nearly a decade at Microsoft's Global HQ, where his titles included principal software architect, principal data scientist, and director of analytics.

Topics in the episode include:

Surprisingly powerful modeling approaches in spreadsheet tools like Excel
The SQL databases we'll need if the data sets we're working with are too big for spreadsheets
Why R programming is easy and should be our default language choice for moderate to advanced statistical analysis
How companies can maximize value from machine learning

Listen or watch here.