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How effective is your data-driven presentation? Bill Franks, who leads the Center for Statistics and Analytical Research at Kennesaw State University, offers practical tips for delivering a presentation that dazzles your non-technical business audience and gets the results you want.

If you’re curious about cryptocurrencies, don’t miss this fascinating conversation on the myths and truths of cryptocurrencies. Are they here to stay? Who is driving their popularity? And will cryptocurrencies replace traditional monies? Rachel Cannon, partner at Steptoe and Johnson LLP, has some answers.

How are inflation and other economic trends in the energy market impacting consumer and commercial sectors? Mark Zoff, manager of market analytics at AEP Energy, explains.

Where is consumer finance headed? Dr. Nikhil Paradkar, assistant professor in finance at the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia, uses data and machine learning to study how changes in the financial sector impact consumers’ credit availability. Learn what he discovered in this interview with Jeff Dugger, principal data scientist and university research director at Equifax.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the automobile industry has gone through changes of historic proportion. Amid a tight auto market, consumer behavior has changed in terms of what they’re buying, how they’re buying it -- and even the face of who is buying has changed for the first time in decades. Tyson Jominy, vice president of data and analytics at JD Power, delivers a striking assessment of the auto industry in this interview with Equifax’s Rissa Reddan.

Learn how data scientists are teaming up with other risk professionals to fuel open source software with differentiated data, which helps companies maximize their business. And hear how some companies are using it to improve people’s lives around the world. In this inspiring episode, David Ferber, SVP of Analytical Capabilities & Solutions at Equifax, interviews Sri Ambati, Founder and CEO of H2O.ai.

Data science is critical to companies that want to turn their data into actionable insights. But what can they do to strengthen their data science program and attract the right talent? Jennifer Priestley, Professor of Statistics and Data Science at Kennesaw State University, shares practical ways that companies can collaborate with universities to solve their business problems.

Challenger banks, which are smaller upstart banks that usually operate solely online, are gaining in popularity. In fact, their innovative features and services are reshaping the traditional banking industry. Mark Miller joins us from Comperemedia to provide us with background and insights on this new banking trend.

Rissa Reddan, SVP of Commercial Marketing at Equifax, interviews Hany Fam, founder and CEO of Markaaz, about the digital needs of small businesses. They explore solutions that can help small businesses with the things that matter most: cashflow, customers and suppliers.

Equifax Marketing VP, Elizabeth Fairman, interviews Equifax Chief Privacy Officer, Nick Oldham, about the latest trends in data privacy and where the industry is headed. The 2020s, says Oldham, will be about the responsible stewardship of data -- and doing the right thing.

Equifax Marketing VP, Tricia Gabberty, interviews Carol Kruse, a Valvoline board member and former CMO at Cambia Health Solutions, about how she marries art and science when leveraging data to tell a story. And with all of today’s data and machine learning, is there still a place for that gut instinct?