Ep 2 | Building Best in Class Analytics Teams with Rachel Pillsbury, Head of Insight at Riviera Travel
In Episode 2 of Driven by Data: The Podcast, Kyle Winterbottom is joined by Rachel Pillsbury, Head of Insight at Riviera Travel, where they discuss how she has built, best in class analytics teams.Fresh off the back of her triumph at the 'Data IQ Awards' where she collected the award for 'Data Analytics Team of the Year', Rachel provides fantastic insight and tangible advice into the key considerations of how to build great Data & Analytics teams, which includes:How she built the team from scratchWhy (she thinks) they won the awardThe importance of ExperimentationHow to build a well-rounded analytics teamAcquiring talent in a remote locationSourcing talent from within & when to go externalUpskilling internal talentThe importance of your degreeWhy our education system is creating a problemAlternative areas of study to exploreWhy you shouldn't focus solely on knowledge-based skillsWhat skills are often overlooked?The business value