Data Analytics is more than just dashboards and reports—it’s the key to unlocking real business value, solving critical challenges, and making AI truly work. But what does it take to implement effective analytics, and how can organisations ensure they’re set up for success?  

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In this episode, host Tom Jenkin sits down with Mike Swordy, Mesh-AI’s Data Analytics Practice Lead, and Lydia Monnington, who has more than a decade of experience at the heart of data analytics, to explore:  

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• What data analytics actually looks like in the real world – how leading enterprises are using it to create impact. 
• Why businesses need to prioritise analytics before jumping into AI.  
• Overcoming resistance – helping leaders see why data analytics is the foundation of AI success.  
• The rise of agent-based systems and how automation is reshaping the role of the data analyst. 
• What organisations need in place to implement effective analytics solutions.  
• How to bridge the talent gap and build a strong data analytics team.

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Find out how data analytics can help you understand the nuances in your organisation’s data and help chart a path toward solving some of the most complex problems you face.

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Listen now:

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About Our Guest

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Lydia’s story begins on the trading floor of an investment bank, where she realised building models of companies was much more interesting than trading. From there an analytics career blossomed, using data to understand businesses and make better decisions.

In her role as Head of Analytics at Stuart Lydia identified the most important challenges for Stuart’s business and designed data driven solutions for them. Past projects include identifying the drivers of delivery costs and recommending cities for the business to expand into.

Lydia believes that charities should have access to the same data driven insights as businesses. Lydia is a director of the Stemettes, who inspire and support girls, young women and non-binary young people in STEM and is on the Scoping Committee for DataKind who help charities, local government, and social enterprises to use data science.

Having graduated with a 1st in Maths from Oxford University, Lydia has held data and analytics roles at Ocado, GHGSat, and Meta (Facebook).

In these roles Lydia has designed and implemented experimentation processes, forecast company growth, planned a warehouse, defined customer segmentations, identified issues in stock control processes to reduce missing items by two thirds, and built a product from scratch, project managing and leading the data work.

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About the Podcast

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The Data & AI Podcast explores the developments, insights and trends in data science and AI/ML.  Our hosts will delve into the latest news and discuss the challenges on how enterprises are reimagining how they use data and AI to benefit their customers. 

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Interested in speaking on the show? Get in touch with us at podcasts@mesh-ai.com 

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