Mining Your Own Business Podcast

Building a Healthy Analytics Team at NutriSense with Olga Sazanova


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Welcome to Mining Your Own Business Podcast. Each episode will bring in data and analytics gurus from around the world as they regale us with their data analytics stories and enlighten us with their secrets for how to turn data into actionable insights.

In this episode, we are joined by Olga Sazonova, Director of Data Science at NutriSense. Through her work as a data scientist and her own personal experience, Olga offers insight on how having access to one’s personal health data can empower individuals to take charge of their wellbeing.  

You will hear about how their data analytics team is structured to work efficiently with their clients’ data, and how data analysts of different backgrounds complement each other. Olga also discusses the importance NutriSense placed on developing meaningful data since being founded in 2019 and how insights from the data work alongside professional insights from subject matter experts.  

Evan and Olga wrap up by discussing future possibilities Olga sees for this type of work, especially in accurately predicting health outcomes.  



Key Takeaways

  • What NutriSense does and how they use data analytics to help personal health 
  • The value in building a team with complementary skill sets 
  • How to create text data that enable meaningful insights 
  • How personalized data can be a powerful motivator for lifestyle change 


 
Quotes
Within our company, we're very aligned on the idea that you want to practice a holistic approach to someone's well-being. - Olga

The hope was that if we teach people about their genetic risk and tell them what they can do to mitigate that risk, they will be motivated by that information to do it. - Olga

I think for every individual there are so many other factors that will impact the results for a given meal, so it's wrong to expect the same results every time. - Olga
 
Featured in this episode
Evan Wimpey
Director of Analytics Strategy at Elder Research.
Company website: www.elderresearch.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evan-wimpey-40469b47
 
Olga Sazonova
Director of Data Science at NutriSense
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olga-sazonova-0328124 
Company Website: https://www.nutrisense.io 
 
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:26 Olga’s background 

05:00 What NutriSense does 

09:31 Potential challenges faced by breadth of data collection 

11:44 Organization of a data analytics team 

13:44 How personalized data can lead to change 

16:27 What to do when professional advice clashes with the data 

19:49 Data results are unique to each person 

23:01 One burning question that Olga would like to solve 

25:25 Conclusion

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