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Anthropology and Your Day Job
Ted Coxworth
Director of Analytics, Progrexion
Setting the Stage
About Me
Director of Analytics, Progrexion
Mid-size (~2k employees) personal finance company
focused on credit repair
My job: answer questions with data, stats, and science.
What does that mean?
An Example: Do Surveys Help?
Total Collections
$350
$319
$300
Lift from Survey?
$285
$285
$244
$250
$219
$198
$200
$253
$177
$142
$150
$127
$100
Are completers different? If so, we should
compare them to similar customers in the
control group.
$75
$67
$50
$1 Month
2 Month
3 Month
Control
4 Month
Complete & Partial Complete
5 Month
6 Month
An Example: Do Surveys Help?
Total Collections
$500
$400
$300
$200
$100
$0
1 Month
2 Month
Modelled Mean
3 Month
Modelled 95% CI
4 Month
Observed Mean
5 Month
6 Month
Observed 95% CI
Survival
120%
100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
1 Month
2 Month
Modelled Mean
3 Month
Modelled 95% CI
4 Month
Observed Mean
5 Month
6 Month
Observed 95% CI
No lift from Survey.
About Me
Director of Analytics, Progrexion
Mid-size (~2k employees) personal finance company
focused on credit repair
My job: answer questions with data, stats, and science.
What does that mean?
Anthropologist
BA, MS, and PhD – all in Anthropology
Lots of research (i.e., data, stats, and science)
About Me
What Anthropology Taught Me
Science is fun – and practical.
Useful perspective on the human animal.
Statistics are incredibly handy inventions.
Human behavior
Particle physics
Automotive manufacturing
Netflix recommendations
Buzzfeed quizzes (nope)
What Anthropology Taught Me
Soft skills
Curiosity
Communication
Tenacity
Hard skills
Programming
Scientific process
What I Would Do Differently
More
Formal training in stats and modeling
Coding / computer science
Less/Fewer
English classes
Hand wringing
Get In Touch
Ted Coxworth
Phone: (801) 204-5122
Email: [email protected]