RACE360 - Emerging Technology Conference 2019, Bengaluru

Chris Arnold

SVP and Head of Product, Analytics, and Modeling, Wells Fargo

Topic: Analyticum Deus: a brief history of tomorrow’s analyst

Chris Arnold - popularly known as the Data Whisperer -- built and leads Wells Fargo’s analytic practice in India and in Manila. While the bulk of his career has been in financial services, focusing on credit risk, marketing, and sales; he has made occasional forays into other industries.

He has been a lecturer in Data Visualization at UC Berkeley where he taught within the Masters in Data Science program and co-developed their online class. He guest-lectures at universities and corporates throughout India and the Philippines--with the simple premise that analysts are their own worst enemies. In addition to his quantitative background, Chris has also conducted ethnographic research in the Amazon basin and facilitated focus groups within the pharmaceutical and automotive industries. He has an inter-disciplinary graduate degree from UC Santa Barbara, where he studied qualitative research methods, statistics, and anthropology.

He speaks passionately about data graphic design, intuitive use of complex analytics, and the alleged intelligence behind the I in BI or AI. If you do not have an hour to spend with Chris, don’t mention pie charts.

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