SCOTT TAYLOR - The Data Whisperer

Let me help you TELL YOUR DATA STORY 

I can be your voice for Data Management 

Partnering with Enterprises and innovative Data Brands that want to change the nature of data management - and help them tell their story!

As **The Data Whisperer** I help "calm data down" 

I am a firm believer in “making your data do the work,” and have enlightened countless business executives to the value of proper data management by focusing on the strategic rationale and business alignment rather than technical implementation and system integration. 

I'm more of the strategic WHY than the technical HOW. 

I have spent over two decades solving master data challenges with large global enterprises as well as guiding Tech Brand owners to leverage their reference data and taxonomy assets.  

In a variety of strategic marketing, GTM, innovation and consulting roles, I have worked with some of the world’s most iconic business data brands including Dun & Bradstreet, Nielsen, Microsoft, Kantar, NPD as well as start-ups such as Qoints and Spiceworks.  

I'm an avid business evangelist and original thinker, and continually share my passion for the strategic value of foundational data through public speaking opportunities, blogs, videos, whitepapers, podcasts and all forms of marketing content. 

Highly effective strategic Subject Matter Expert/SME working directly with sales and alliances to reinforce the value of data management.

If you are an innovative Tech Brand looking to change the very nature of data management let me help you tell a better story!

The Data Whisperer & Principal Consultant

MetaMeta: "It's about what it's about"

We are a strategic marketing consultancy focused on partnering with innovative Tech Brands that seek to change the nature of enterprise data management - and want help to tell that story.  Our experience is rooted in helping countless business executives understand the strategic value of proper data management.  Data has never been hotter but Tech Brands can't always break through the clutter.  We are proponents of compelling messaging that is also technically accurate. 

Honestly have not been thinking too much about data recently 😎  


Princess Di Beach, Barbuda 🏝️

SCOTT TAYLOR

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Due to…ahem…local weather, yeah local weather 😎 I won’t be able to make it to Data Day Texas and will miss seeing a bunch of my data friends. 

BTW When is Data Day Antigua? 🇦🇬

Joe Reis Jordan Morrow Matthew Housley Jean-Georges Perrin Ole Olesen-Bagneux Sanjeev Mohan  Dylan Anderson  Ryan Dolley 🎯 Mark Freeman II  Tim Gasper Bill Inmon Winfried Adalbert Etzel  Alex Merced  enjoy the snow ❄️ 




#datastorytelling 



Jolly Harbour, Antigua 🇦🇬

If your hair is on fire every time you upgrade Apache Spark… 🔥

You’re not alone. For many teams, Spark upgrades set off a full on fire drill: chasing deprecated APIs, fixing dependencies, and validating data, all while keeping production running.

At AWS re:Invent they announced an AI-powered Spark upgrade agent for Amazon EMR that changes everything. It works inside your IDE to:

📈Analyze and modernize code
🛠️Fix build and runtime issues
✅Validate tests and data outputs

What used to take months of engineering effort can now be done in hours, or even minutes.

Less fire. 🔥 More warmth. ☺️

If you’re running Spark on Amazon Web Services (AWS) EMR, this is worth checking out.

Read all about it here : https://lnkd.in/gePZcTck

I help ANY professional or team have more impact using data. Analytics demystified.

👉 WHAT I DO: I help teams and organizations develop and apply real-world machine learning forecasting skills using Python and Python in Excel.

⚙️ WHO I HELP: Every type of organization will benefit from better forecasts, including (but not limited to):

🏛️ Financial Services
🏥 Healthcare
👩‍🎓 Education
📺 Marketing
📊 Finance
💻 IT 

💰 WHY IT WORKS: In modern organizations, many external factors impact forecasts. These factors include holidays, promotions, capital investments, weather, and global economics.

Machine learning forecasting models can incorporate these external factors to produce more powerful forecasts than can be achieved via commonly used techniques (e.g., Excel's FORECAST.ETS() function).

✅ HOW I DO IT: I work under two operating models depending on your business needs:

"Done with You" - This is a coaching model where I train your team/organization and then help them successfully apply what they've learned.

"Done For You" - This is a consulting model where I do the work on your behalf.

Regardless of the mode, I focus on the nature of your business problem first and foremost. 

Before I write any code or train your team, I partner with you to develop an understanding of your business. With this baseline knowledge, I then bring my 14+ years of analytics and data science experience to the engagement. 

I can use Python in Excel or Jupyter Notebooks - whichever works best for your situation.

📞 READY TO TALK?
Schedule a free discovery call: https://bit.ly/FreeForecastingDiscoveryCall

David Langer

Woohoo! My book has received its first Amazon review. I had one goal for writing Python in Excel Step-by-Step. This goal might seem crazy to some:

To teach ANY professional the Python foundation they need for analytics and the AI-powered future of Microsoft Excel.

I packed the book with many examples of how everyday Excel knowledge translates to Python. The goal was to make learning Python easy and fun for Excel users.

**BUT**

As an author, you never know if your efforts were on target until the book gets into the hands of real people.

As you might imagine, getting this review early in the book's release gives me hope that the book will help many professionals learn the Python foundation they need to:

Unleash the power of their data with analytics.
Partner deeply with the Copilot in Excel AI.

2026 is off to a tremendous start.

Stay healthy and happy data sleuthing!

#Excel #PythonInExcel #MicrosoftExcel

Author. Analytics educator. Microsoft Excel MVP. I help professionals and teams build better forecasts using machine learning with Python and Python in Excel.

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