Student Spotlight: Aaron Payne, Data Analyst @Dataskeptic
Student Spotlight: Aaron Payne, Data Analyst  @Dataskeptic
Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Aaron Payne, an MBA student at Georgia Tech studying business analytics and a Senior Insights Analyst at Chick-fil-A, joins Kyle Polich to talk about turning analytics into decisions that matter. They unpack a real-world forecasting project with Comfama in Colombia, including messy data realities, interpretability tradeoffs, and why “data science for good” starts with the people impacted.
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Student Spotlight: Aaron Payne, Data Analyst

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