Data Skeptic
Data Skeptic
Kyle Polich
Student Spotlight: Aaron Payne, Data Analyst
25 minutes Posted May 1, 2026 at 3:25 pm.
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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.