Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

What can I do to ensure that my email goes to the right folder? ]. Update: John Duffy, in comments below, has a great tip: Segment delivery rates by Email Service Provider (ESP). In my earlier posts you might have seen me refer to this as “your Macro Conversion,” the most important thing to your business when you use email marketing.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

From observing behavior closely, and from my own experimentation and failure, I've noticed consistent patterns in what great employees do and great bosses do. In my long professional career, I’ve tried to emulate these patterns and to build on them as I try to deliver a non-normal impact to my employers. Be thorough.

Strategy 134

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 11, 2023

Also, thanks to Jose Kunnackal John, Jill Florant, the QuickSight Solution Architects, Amazon QuickSight Service Delivery Partners—led by West Loop Strategy, AWS Service Acceleration team, AWS ProServe team, and AWS Data Lab team for your incredible investment in the QuickSight Community.

Data Processing 98

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bridgei2i

AUGUST 11, 2020

My name is Aruna Babu, and I’m a transformation consultant who spent a good part of the last decade crafting strategy that marries business, technology and user needs. You know, they’re waking up at three o’clock in the morning and they’re thinking, ‘Oh my God, what am I gotten into? Subscribe Now. Transcript.

Sales 98

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 8, 2006

Here is my personal point of view, a check list if you will, on what makes a great Web Insights Analyst (it is important to caveat that this is not me, I only wish I were this good, this is something I aspire to be) : # 10 You have used more than one Web Analytics tool extensively. Tip of the hat to Michelle, Oleg, John and Steven.

KPI 94

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Edwin Chen

AUGUST 21, 2011

My sister adopted a kitten yesterday. Introduction. Suppose you have the following set of sentences: I like to eat broccoli and bananas. I ate a banana and spinach smoothie for breakfast. Chinchillas and kittens are cute. Look at this cute hamster munching on a piece of broccoli. What is latent Dirichlet allocation?

Snapshot 81

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Domino Data Lab

APRIL 3, 2019

In particular, here’s my Strata SF talk “Overview of Data Governance” presented in article form. My interest in data governance (DG) began with the recent industry surveys by O’Reilly Media about enterprise adoption of “ABC” (AI, Big Data, Cloud). That last point is what I’ll take away as my north star for DG. It’s a mess.

Machine Learning 84

Machine Learning Data Governance Metadata Data Science 84

Juice Analytics

JANUARY 4, 2019

It is the the New Year, my favorite time for New Year’s resolutions. I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.” — John O’Donohue. Every year I tell myself I need to be better at meeting new people and keeping up with old friends. Here are a few places to start: Empathy. Inclusive. “We

Management 40

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Cloudera

JULY 9, 2018

How do I wrangle in my data science community? by John Thuma, Director of Analytic Solutions, Arcadia Data ( @ AnalyticsRNA ). Only when organizations understand these challenges will they begin to harmonize and put them to work in a seamless fashion. Below we deconstruct three data science iron triangle dilemmas.

Machine Learning 42

Machine Learning Data Science Visualization Business Intelligence 42

Occam's Razor

MARCH 10, 2015

" My reply: " All business will ultimately be digital, so, if anything, web analytics will subsume business analysis! " And, 15 years later I get to go back to my first job title after graduating from MBA school. " That was a half-cheeky reply. Business analysis. No digital. No offline. No just this or that silo.

Strategy 153

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

When I work with companies, I do my very best to bring my deep and undying passion for creativity and digital awesomeness to them. In this blog post I want to try and do something similar by sharing some of my favorite digital experiences with you. John Lewis: Thoughtful Cart and Checkout Experiences for Nonline Outcomes.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 8, 2018

If you are a reader of my newsletter, The Marketing < > Analytics Intersect , you’ve seen me apply it to metrics (last TMAI was on Bounce Rate), reports, frameworks and more. And Amy Davidson and Sheelah Kolhatkar and John Cassidy and Jia Tolentino and… all of 'em. My only choice was to up the game to two years.

Sales 135

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

I have a lot on my mind but there was one thing in particular that I wanted to share with you all: What it is has been like working at Google. I went into Google with my own filters and expectations on what the experience would be like and what I would end up doing. My reply was " My level of gourmet is Taco Bell " :).

Consulting 140

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Domino Data Lab

JULY 22, 2019

Back to my talk. First up, if you haven’t seen this, John Tukey…by the way, we have socks for John Tukey. John Tukey was a mathematician at Bell Labs. If you read Edward Tufte or if you take this class, you’ll hear all about John Tukey. We had 668 people registered. I loved that.

Data Science 109

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Perceptual Edge

MARCH 1, 2020

If we compare the number of friends that Sally and John each have, Sally’s 20 friends compared to John’s 10 friends is a proportion. The proportion of Sally’s 20 friends compared to John’s 10 can be written as a ratio in either of the following ways: “20 to 10” or “20:10”. 20 / 10 = 2).

Broadcasting 61

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Domino Data Lab

JULY 9, 2019

I’m going to try to tell you all about data science at the New York Times, and in case I run out of time my email address and my Twitter are here. Well, we are hiring but… my talk is going to be sort of Pete [Skomoroch]’s talk and Paco [Nathan]’s talk sort of crammed into applications.

Data Science 112

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 5, 2023

In the previous posts in this three-part series (see Part 1 and Part 2 ), I wrote about how I discovered a set of common themes that span across all my podcast episodes, even though the IBM Fellows cover a broad range of technical areas at IBM. In some cases, the answer to my question “Could you introduce yourself to us?”

Forecasting 51

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Occam's Razor

MAY 31, 2016

This month my beloved blog is ten years old. My very first post, audaciously, was titled Traditional Web Analytics is Dead (05/15/06). Five minutes ago, 05/30/06, in my stream I saw a tweet by Christian Bartens referencing a post I'd written on 05/19/06! It feels more like five. Would you please add it to the comment below?

Marketing 78

Marketing Analytics Consulting Recreation/Entertainment 78

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Here you'll find all my blog posts categorized into a structure that will hopefully make it easy for you to discover new content, find answers to your questions, or simply wallow in some excellent analytics narratives. How can my company become great? . How can my company become great?" My Friend John.

KPI 125

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Edwin Chen

MARCH 13, 2011

I’m now (very slowly) trying to clean up my notes and put them online. For example, to predict how you would rate the first Harry Potter movie, the user-based approach looks at how your friends rated the first Harry Potter movie, while the item-based approach looks at how you rated movies like Lord of the Rings and Twilight.

Optimization 40

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datapine

AUGUST 29, 2022

This makes the book really worthy in my opinion, also because the overall organization is well structured and guides through the different parts of the Lambda Architecture really well”. John Stormer, Salesforce.com. 8) Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight, by John W. Mike Volpe, Hubspot.

Big Data 263

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Depict Data Studio

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

So I brought a couple examples, including a tile map that a friend of Ann’s and mine developed, Jon Schwabish, and I I was also working on what Ann had taught us about geography, the geography part of charting in Excel. And two years ago for my infographic at the end of 2022, I used something that was in Google. The data set.

IT 52

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Depict Data Studio

APRIL 21, 2025

Uh, I had my humble beginnings, you know, uh, I think it there, it was a rough humble beginning because it was, I had to learn array formulas, so, and really learn array formulas in a very short time. Now the hashtag has become my, my favorite symbol, my favorite, uh, reference type of reference in Excel. The arrows.

Interactive 52

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Occam's Razor

JULY 13, 2017

My primary goal is to expand your horizon so that we can peek over and see new possibilities. In as much, my recommendation is to read one section per day. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the Creator worked very hard, and, I sincerely mean this, they are very clever. It breaks my heart. Scroll back up.

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