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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

To win in business you need to follow this process: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act. We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. That metric is tied to a KPI.

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5-Star Linked Open Elections Data 

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For these reasons, publishing the data related to elections is obligatory for all EU member states under Directive 2003/98/EC on the re-use of public sector information and the Bulgarian Central Elections Committee (CEC) has released a complete export of every election database since 2011.

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Clustering in R

Domino Data Lab

It divides the observations into discrete groups based on some distance metric. According to David Madigan, the former chair of Department of Statistics and current Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Statistics at Columbia University, a good metric for determining the optimal number of clusters is Hartigan’s rule (J.

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The Definitive Guide To (8) Competitive Intelligence Data Sources!

Occam's Razor

Feel better? : ) When should you start doing paid search advertising for tours to Italy for 2011? For example, with Alexa , you can report on traffic statistics (such as rank and page views), upstream (where your traffic comes from) and downstream (where people go after visiting your site) statistics, and key-words driving traffic to a site.

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Excellent Analytics Tips #20: Measuring Digital "Brand Strength"

Occam's Razor

Bonus One: Read: Brand Measurement: Analytics & Metrics for Branding Campaigns ]. There are many different tools, both online and offline, that measure the elusive metric called brand strength. Amazon is an interesting example. They are full of specific insights you can use to optimize your online search campaigns.

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The Role of Cookies in Analytics and Privacy Issues they Raise

Smart Data Collective

It is important to be aware of the different online data analytics metrics and tools used to track people online, since they shape the direction of big data technology. General user’s statistics. There are a lot of issues in big data that warrant discussion. It is interesting how one word – cookies can mean different things.

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Fact-based Decision-making

Peter James Thomas

Pertinence and fidelity of metrics developed from Data. Metrics are seldom reliant on just one data element, but are often rather combinations. There are often compromises to be made in defining metrics. Integrity of statistical estimates based on Data. For example: Is this a good way to define New Business Growth?