A Day in the Life of an Analytics Manager at a Top Publishing Company
Christopher's typical day involves monitoring data performance, using "dashboards...to monitor polls and alerts," and proactively addressing issues. A significant portion of the Analytics Manager's time is dedicated to projects like "migrating everything to the Google cloud," requiring collaboration with engineering and executive leadership to ensure successful implementation.
Data Analysis, Project Management, Communication, Problem-Solving, Technology
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Christopher Chen
Analytics Manager
Top Publishing Company
UCLA
UCLA MBA (in progress)
Communications, Economics
Arts, Entertainment & Media
Data and Analytics
Honors Student, Scholarship Recipient, Took Out Loans
Video Highlights
1. Analyzes daily performance data using custom dashboards and alerts.
2. Investigates and resolves data stream issues.
3. Conducts research and manages migration projects (e.g., to Google Cloud), collaborating with engineers and executive leadership.
Transcript
A day-to-day includes a few things that are non-meeting related. These tasks involve checking the pulse of the newsroom in terms of what has performed best over the previous few days or week.
We have dashboards that we've built to monitor polls and alerts. This affects the Newsroom through either Slack updates or push notifications.
It's about understanding the pulse of how everything is performing, how our data streams are performing. If something is broken, I'll hop on that.
There's also a lot of research into backend migration. For example, I'm working on a project to migrate everything to Google Cloud. We need to understand if other changes need to be made in the stack.
We need to be on top of this and be able to speak to our CIO and CTO about it. This ensures all engineers are aware of what they need to do to make things work.