Riso Group

Do more with your business data

Consulting, Advising, Fractional Exec

Analytics

  • Marketing attribution, lift, ROI
  • Product analytics & event tracking
  • Cohort analysis
  • A/B testing & experimentation

AI and Machine Learning

  • Data agents
  • AI automation
  • Predictive LTV
  • AI strategy & evaluation

Data Engineering

  • ETL & data pipelines
  • Data warehousing
  • Self-service dashboards
  • Analytics engineering & modeling

Featured Insights

Table of estimated data platform adoption in July 2026, with BigQuery down 15% since January
Data Platform Adoption: July 2026

Snowflake leads at 50%, but BigQuery adoption fell 15% in the first half of 2026 even as Google Cloud revenue grew 82%.

James Riso James Riso • 1 min read
Table and line chart of the top 10 BI tools by adoption in July 2026, with Streamlit up 70% since January
Top 10 BI Tools by Adoption: July 2026

Tableau and Looker still lead, but Hex (+30%), Omni (+39%), and Streamlit (+70%) grew fastest since January.

James Riso James Riso • 1 min read
Overall hiring trend chart showing ~9% growth in Q1 2026
Hiring Pulse Q1: Tech job openings were up, with Software Engineering losing share

Open roles up ~9% in Q1. Software Engineering shows a statistically significant decrease in share.

James Riso James Riso • 3 min read
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Case Studies

Driving Meta Ad Spend Efficiency with LTV Prediction Machine Learning Models
Driving Meta Ad Spend Efficiency with LTV Prediction Machine Learning Models
Data Science PLG
Enabling Critical Insights Through Dashboards Built into a SaaS Product
Enabling Critical Insights Through Dashboards Built into a SaaS Product
Product Analytics E-commerce
Legal Services Case Study
Streamlining Data Warehousing and Business Logic to Support B2B, B2C, and M&A Integration
Data Infrastructure

About James

James Riso is an expert in using data to drive business impact.

  • VP of Data Science & Analytics at Daily Harvest: built the function as the company scaled to a $1.1B valuation, drove millions in revenue and profit
  • Uber (pricing) and Cornerstone Research (economic consulting)
  • MBA, University of Chicago Booth (Econometrics & Statistics); BA, Georgetown (Economics & Philosophy)
  • Brooklyn, NY native; splits time between NYC and New Orleans
Uber
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Daily Harvest
Georgetown University

Projects

Dashboard

Hiring Pulse

Job market trends across 1,100+ high-growth tech companies, updated weekly.

Engineering role share trend chart

E-commerce & AI Lab

NicheMerch

A live Shopify store and testing ground for data, AI, and marketing tech.

HatGPT AI chat interface for custom merchandise design

Calendar

Data & AI Events

Aggregating webinars, livestreams and meetups from around the industry into one calendar you can subscribe to.

Snowflake MotherDuck Sigma Metabase ClickHouse Hex
jriso / agentic-data-stack

Ask BigQuery or Snowflake questions in plain English — no BI subscription required.

MCP
jriso / metabase-snapshot

Track every dashboard change and give AI agents readable context on your BI layer.

Python CLI
jriso / claude-code-cost

Estimate what your Claude Code usage would cost at API prices.

Python Web
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Data Warehouses
Snowflake · BigQuery · Redshift · Databricks · ClickHouse
BI
Looker · Sigma · Omni · Metabase · Hex · Tableau · Streamlit
CDP & Product Analytics
RudderStack · Segment · Amplitude · Mixpanel · Heap · Hightouch
ETL
Fivetran · Airbyte · Hevo · Polytomic
AI / LLM
Claude Code · Anthropic API · OpenAI API · Vertex AI
Languages
SQL · Python · JavaScript · R · dbt

Get in Touch

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