Occam's Razor

AUGUST 29, 2011

Recently the Google Analytics team changed the way sessionization algorithm. In lay terms… how the start, duration and end of a Visit is computed. A minor version of the butterfly effect occurred, one small change in a part of the system caused a few other smaller changes in other parts of the system. Some people freaked out. Others wondered what the fuss was all about.

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Nutanix

AUGUST 25, 2011

Gartner released a report in mid 2010 that they expected 50 million VDI desktops by 2013. Then there are the recent newsflashes surrounding VDI : Citrix buys Kaviza and RingCube.

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Edwin Chen

AUGUST 21, 2011

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. My sister adopted a kitten yesterday. Look at this cute hamster munching on a piece of broccoli. What is latent Dirichlet allocation? It’s a way of automatically discovering topics that these sentences contain.

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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. To assist with that process everything's organized into these sections: ~ Digital Marketing: "What is amazing out there?

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 8, 2011

99.9996253% of Web Analytics reports produced are utterly useless. Partly because of a lack of any tie to business strategy (ensure you have a Digital Marketing & Measurement Model !), partly because they are out of the box standard reports that web analytics vendors create for “average” people (and we both know that you are not average!), and partly because all they do is present data in the aggregate (a punishable criminal offence if there ever was one!).

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Nutanix

AUGUST 2, 2011

Shrinking server infrastructure to a fraction of its original size has been the biggest infrastructure advancement in the last decade.

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Nutanix

AUGUST 16, 2011

I now feel that the beginning of the end for SAN-like storage systems is hurtling towards us.

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