# S3 E8: Byte: Catchups, Updates, and Diversity

> This is content from just-tim, the data-and-analytics channel by Tim Ngwena (formerly 'Tableau Tim'). Tim has 12+ years of hands-on BI experience and covers Tableau most of all, plus Power BI, Looker, Hex, SQL and data modelling, the analytics industry, and the craft of doing the job — always tool-agnostic and honest about the trade-offs.

- **Author:** Tim Ngwena (just-tim, https://just-tim.com/about)
- **Published:** 2024-04-22
- **Format:** Video · 54 min watch · transcript available
- **Topics:** Career, Industry trends, Community
- **Tools:** Tableau
- **Canonical:** https://just-tim.com/posts/s3-e8-byte-catchups-updates-and-diversity
- **Watch:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jj2STVQdk0

In this Datum episode I catch up with Ravi after a long lockdown gap. We cover his move from the Information Lab to the City Football Group's football intelligence team, react to Apple's keynote and its shift to in-house ARM chips, and then have a long, candid conversation about Black Lives Matter, racial bias and diversity in organisations, before finishing on the rise of video content in the data community.

## Key takeaways

- Ravi has left the Information Lab to join the City Football Group's football intelligence stream, where roughly 90% of his role is enabling, educating and building data culture across clubs rather than building dashboards.
- Apple's move to in-house ARM chips means iOS and iPad apps run natively on the Mac, blurring the line between iPad and laptop and pointing towards a more unified hardware and software ecosystem.
- Meaningful conversations about diversity work best in small, safe settings rather than on social platforms where tone and intent are lost; collecting the data on representation is a necessary first step to knowing where you stand.
- If a company still struggles with gender or LGBTQ diversity, it is highly likely the same gaps exist around BAME representation, even if it is not yet being measured.
- Video is a powerful, accessible medium for sharing data content because YouTube's auto-transcription and visual demonstration reach wider, non-English-first audiences, and unedited authenticity often connects better than polish.

## Chapters

- 0:00 Catching up during lockdown
- 1:06 Ravi's move to City Football Group
- 9:13 Apple keynote and the ARM transition
- 12:47 Black Lives Matter and diversity
- 42:36 The pivot to video content

Watch the full video, read the transcript and use chapter deep-links on the page: https://just-tim.com/posts/s3-e8-byte-catchups-updates-and-diversity

---
just-tim — Data and analytics, with a point of view. · https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7HYxRWmaNlJux-X7rNLZyw · https://twitter.com/TableauTim · https://www.linkedin.com/in/timngwena