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My posts focused on cannabis retail and consumer insights published on The Patch. For more about me, see here and don’t hesitate to contact me!

The Sales Impact from Budtender Incentives Part 1

The Sales Impact from Budtender Incentives Part 2

The Lifetime Value of a Retail Customer in Cannabis

Save Cash by Stocking Exactly to Demand

Stop Lighting Money on Fire: The Truth About Discounts and Profit

Cannabis Sales Losses From Out-of-Stock Products

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A Roblox Case Study

case study

Proposing a change to the Roblox Transactions Page to better incentivize larger quantity and subscription purchases of In-Game Currency. Additionally, I walk-through the setup of an AB Test to measure the impact of such a change.

The Actual Learning Curve of a Real Surgeon

Robotic Surgery

This post presents the real observed learning curve for a surgeon over the course of their first year performing Prostatectomy cases.

Influencing the Learning Curve in Robotic Assisted Surgery

Robotic Surgery

This post describes results from an analysis of Surgical Learning Curve models, as well as factors that can accelerate a surgeon’s proficiency in robotic assisted procedures.

Assessing Performance with Surgical Learning Curves

Robotic Surgery

This post provides an approach to assess Surgical Efficiency and Surgeon Performance using learning curve models derived from robotic procedure data.

A Gentle Intro to Surgical Performance

Robotic Surgery

This post provides a gentle introduction to benchmarking Surgical Performance, while highlighting the motivation for this work, the data collected in the effort, and the process of transforming the raw data into surgical performance KPIs presented to key Hospital and Surgeon stakeholders.

Impact of Product Stockouts

cannabis

analysis

retail

This post demonstrates one method for measuring the lost opportunity in sales dollars when a primary product with regular sales experiences numerous stockouts during a 90 day sales period.

Supply Chain Volatility in Cannabis

cannabis

analysis

This post examines daily inventory levels for 385K unique products across 118 retail locations for the past 530 days in order understand the impact that supply chain volatility can have on retail organizations in Cannabis

Customer LTV in Cannabis

cannabis

analysis

retail

This post explores estimating a customer’s life-time value (LTV) metric for cannabis consumers.

Optimal Price of Kiva Products

analysis

insights

This post describes a pricing model that will identify the optimal price (one that maximizes demand) for various Kiva edible products; in addition, I summarize the price-point and discount level that maximize product sell-through for these Kiva products.

Exploring Customer Segments

cannabis

exploratory

This post explores customer segmentation in retail Cannabis. Here we defines these segments as well as nine product categories that play an important role in classifying customers by preference.

Discount Demand Modeling

insights

analysis

This post describes the impact that increasing or decreasing the discount rate of a product has on the demand of such products. This is often referred to as the Discount Elasticity of Demand.

Declining Prices in Cannabis

cannabis

insights

retail

This post descibes an analysis of unit prices retail organizations, and focuses on prices of the three largest product categories in the cannabis market: Flower, Vape, and Edible products.

Consumer Age by Category

cannabis

insights

This post demonstrates the differences in the distribution of Age (of all cannabis consumers between January and May 2023) across cannabis product categories.