Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Data analysis is not easy. It takes years to get good at it, and once you get good at it you realize how much more there is to learn. That is part of the joy. You are always learning. You are always growing. This blogpost is a collection of tips I share with my friends who are just starting out. Each tip is a "simple" mistake that is easily avoided.

Statistics 130

Statistics Testing Reporting Key Performance Indicator 130

Nutanix

OCTOBER 28, 2011

I’m privileged to be involved with disruptive technologies very early on, sometimes at a stage when it may be hard to fully see the impact.

Technology 20

Technology IT 20

Edwin Chen

OCTOBER 23, 2011

How was the Netflix Prize won? I went through a lot of the Netflix Prize papers a couple years ago, so I’ll try to give an overview of the techniques that went into the winning solution here. Normalization of Global Effects. Suppose Alice rates Inception 4 stars. We can think of this rating as composed of several parts: A baseline rating (e.g., maybe the mean over all user-movie ratings is 3.1 stars).

Metrics 101

Metrics Modeling Interactive IT 101

Nutanix

OCTOBER 28, 2011

I’m privileged to be involved with disruptive technologies very early on, sometimes at a stage when it may be hard to fully see the impact.

Technology 20

Technology IT 20

Speaker: Jason Tanner

While growth of software-enabled solutions generates momentum, growth alone is not enough to ensure sustainability. The probability of success dramatically improves with early planning for profitability. A sustainable business model contains a system of interrelated choices made not once but over time. Join this webinar for an iterative approach to ensuring solution, economic and relationship sustainability.

Modeling

Nutanix

OCTOBER 11, 2011

At VMworld back in August, Nutanix was honored with TechTarget's Best of VMworld - Desktop Virtualization award.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 10, 2011

I am going to break one of my unspoken cardinal rules: Only write about real problems and measurement that is actually possible in the real world. I am going to break the second part of the rule. I am going to define a way for you to think about measuring social media, and you can't actually easily measure what I am going to recommend. [Update: Please see update #2 below, you can now easily measure what's recommended in this post.].

Metrics 165

Metrics Measurement Advertising Key Performance Indicator 165