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My guest on this episode is Stuart White, CEO of Realtracs who represents the largest MLS in Tennessee with a comprehensive property search and data platform. Realtracs recently announced the Southeast MLS Alliance with largest MLSs in Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia to set new standards for data accessibility.
Stuart and I talk about what the new alliance means, data challenges agents face, developing better data tools for agents, and the future of Realtracs and MLSs broadly.
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My guest on this episode is Dale Larson, founder and CEO of Modex, an LO recruiting and data platform that gives really granular data on LO performance and loan breakdown to help lenders recruit more effectively.
Dale and I talk about what tells LOs give before they switch lenders, the importance and relevance of context within data, how ambitious lenders are using Modex today, and lessons learned from founding and growing a data company.
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Modex
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My guest on this episode is John Wilson, Director of Insights and Analytics at Brookdale. Brookdale is the largest senior living operator in the country and John leads their internal data team to identify insights that move the business forward. We talk about what he’s learned structuring teams, the impact of reverse Conway’s Law, team topology, and building a team around your data structure.
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Brookdale
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My guest today is Brian Juedes, National VP of Product Design at Taylor Morrison, a large national homebuilder. Brian describes himself as a data junkie and his team supports 19 divisions across the country with key data and insights. In this episode we discuss telling a story with the data and using experience to provide more context, how data informs product decisions, and communicating with data.
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Taylor Morrison
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My guest today is Nicollette Chapman, SVP of National Sales for Mortgage at Zonda. Our conversation focuses on how data informs loan officer recruiting strategies and makes lenders more effective recruiters. We also touch on how to describe the ROI of data to clients, what her top clients do differently with data, and key numbers she references to help explain the housing market.
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Zonda
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My guest today is Andrew Moore, VP of Software Engineering at Nations Lending. Andrew has been busy building a data science function at Nations Lending heavily influenced by his software engineering experience, and we spend a lot of our time discussing how data and engineering cross-over and intersect with each other.
We also talk about constructing data science teams, challenges lenders have using data, retaining data domain expertise, and so much more.
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Nation's Lending
Andrew's Podcast: Plays Well With Others
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My guest today is Ralph McLaughlin, Chief Economist at Haus. Ralph has been a Chief Economist at CoreLogic and Trulia previously and is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California. Ralph’s mission at Haus is to help the organization understand the market in order to make effective business decisions.
Over our conversation, we focus on what high-performing data teams look like, the role of economists, and working in a data-informed environment. Please enjoy my episode with Ralph McLaughlin.
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My guest on this episode is Brandon Lwowski, Senior Director of Research at HouseCanary. Brandon’s work at HouseCanary, and much of his career, has focused on artificial intelligence and how to design models with fairness in mind. He even has a PhD in AI from UT San Antonio, so I can’t think of a better guest for a conversation on AI’s impact in the housing market.
Brandon and I talk about fairness in AI, computer vision’s impact on AVMs, developing better data models, and where AI is going in real estate. Please enjoy my episode with Brandon Lwowski.
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HouseCanary
2023 HW Rising Star: Brandon Lwowski
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My guest today is Alex Villacorta, co-founder of ResiShares, a rental real estate investing platform. Alex has spent his career in housing data at companies like Clear Capital and HouseCanary before co-founding ResiShares with Michael Greene in 2020. His career-long focus on housing data has given him really insightful perspectives on working with and building teams around data and our conversation dives into several views he’s developed over time.
In this third episode of House of Data, Alex and I discuss how the data profession has evolved over his career since 2007, the importance of context within data, where companies get stuck using data, and what his fantasy data team looks like. Please enjoy our episode with Alex Villacorta.
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My guest today is Daren Blomquist. Daren is the VP of Market Economics at Auction.com, and has been a guest on two of our other podcasts Top of Mind and Housing News where he’s talked extensively about trends he’s seeing in housing markets.
In this episode, we turn inward and discuss his work with data at Auction.com and its influence on executive decision-making. We also talk about confirmation bias and how to fight it, how to tell a story with data and connect it to other more qualitative data, and trends he’s seeing in how organizations are using data to make better decisions.
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Auction.com
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My first guest on House of Data is Zach Ronstadt. Zach is the VP of Strategic Operations at Meritage Homes and has spent the last 15 years creating a data and research team called Strategic Operations that supports their regional leaders with insights and data to make better decisions.
Zach and I talk about building trust as a data team with decision makers and what that process looks like over time, developing the ability to influence decisions without being the decision maker, how to be effective in a data role, and what data has told Zach about evolving consumer preferences in new homes.
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Meritage Homes
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House of Data explores how data is influencing decisions at the most ambitious companies in housing. Each episode dives into how housing market participants are ingesting, organizing, and making decisions using data, and the competitive advantages that follow.
