Transformation

McGucket’s transformation from silicon valley genius to backwood’s hillbilly is certainly extreme. Many analyst go through transformations of their own. Many such transformation result in a major career changes. Just as McGucket found analyzing multidimensional space and time traumatic, many analyst wannabes find analytics more than they can handle as well.

Great analysts often go through major transformations, too. There is a moment in so many analysts careers when the reality of what is truly knowable, what is truly measurable, and what should be actionable hits like a ton of bricks. Many analysts go through their own period of disillusionment.

Fortunately for them, the Mind Eraser is still an item of fiction. Unfortunately for McGucket, he went ahead and invented it. The resulting transformation leaves him a crazy, ham-boning, raccoon-loving kook with jargon aphasia. “Come quick before it scrap-doodles away!”

Wisdom & Perspective

McGucket’s unique experiences provide him with an equally unique perspective and wisdom. By the end of series, his memories restored, Fiddleford adopts new ways of thinking. Like any great analyst, he learns from his past failures choosing to forgive rather than forget and providing critical and much needed help.

Even before his destruction of the Society of Blind-Eye, there is a certain genius in his mad ravings.

“Well, first I just hootynanied up a bio mechanical brain-wave generator, and then I learned how to operate a stick shift with my beard.”

He may be crazy but he is often more aware of obvious issues than the others.

“Why does my beard have a bandage? Does that even make sense?”

McGucket may be crazy but that doesn’t mean he isn’t right. In Gravity Falls, he is the comic relief. He is the town crazy man. He is the survivor of three decades of pushing the envelope of knowledge and discovery. He is a cartoon character — but he is also a relevant profile in analytics.

Next up? McGucket had his own cipher on the show. It was the first introduction to our next profile character…

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