Occam's Razor

MAY 22, 2006

This post is a primer on the delightful world of testing and experimentation (A/B, Multivariate, and a new term from me: Experience Testing). Experimentation and testing help us figure out we are wrong, quickly and repeatedly and if you think about it that is a great thing for our customers, and for our employers. Counter claims?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 10, 2025

High expectations, but ROI challenges persist Despite significant investments, only 31% of organizations expect to measure generative AIs return on investment in the next six months. The dynamic nature of AI demands new ways to measure value beyond the limits of a conventional business case, Chase said.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

But why blame others, in this post let's focus on one important reason whose responsibility can be squarely put on your shoulders and mine: Measurement. Create a distinct mobile website and mobile app measurement strategies. Media-Mix Modeling/Experimentation. Remember my stress earlier on measuring micro-outcomes?).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

This article goes behind the scenes on whats fueling Blocks investment in developer experience, key initiatives including the role of an engineering intelligence platform , and how the company measures and drives success. Rather, Coburns team optimizes for fast experimentation and a metrics-driven approach.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

Deloittes State of Generative AI in the Enterprise reports nearly 70% have moved 30% or fewer of their gen AI experiments into production, and 41% of organizations have struggled to define and measure the impacts of their gen AI efforts. Why should CIOs bet on unifying their data and AI practices?

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datapine

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Management thinker Peter Drucker once stated, “if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it” – and he couldn’t be more right. Structure your metrics. As with any report you might need to create, structuring and implementing metrics that will tell an interesting and educational data-story is crucial in our digital age.

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O'Reilly on Data

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Ideally, AI PMs would steer development teams to incorporate I/O validation into the initial build of the production system, along with the instrumentation needed to monitor model accuracy and other technical performance metrics. But in practice, it is common for model I/O validation steps to be added later, when scaling an AI product.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Mostly because short term goals drive a lot of what we do and if you are selling something on your website then it only seems to make logical sense that we measure conversion rate and get it up as high as we can as fast as we can. So measure Bounce Rate of your website. Is Real Conversion Rate metric a good one?

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Corinium

JUNE 6, 2019

A properly set framework will ensure quality, timeliness, scalability, consistency, and industrialization in measuring and driving the return on investment. It is also important to have a strong test and learn culture to encourage rapid experimentation. What is the most common mistake people make around data?

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

" ~ Web Metrics: "What is a KPI? " + Standard Metrics Revisited Series. Key To Your Digital Success: Web Analytics Measurement Model. " Measuring Incrementality: Controlled Experiments to the Rescue! Barriers To An Effective Web Measurement Strategy [+ Solutions!]. How Do I Measure Success?

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 23, 2024

the weight given to Likes in our video recommendation algorithm) while $Y$ is a vector of outcome measures such as different metrics of user experience (e.g., Experiments, Parameters and Models At Youtube, the relationships between system parameters and metrics often seem simple — straight-line models sometimes fit our data well.

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DataKitchen

APRIL 13, 2021

DataOps requires that teams measure their analytic processes in order to see how they are improving over time. A complete DataOps program will have a unified, system-wide view of process metrics using a common data store. Polyaxon — An open-source platform for reproducible machine learning at scale.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 1, 2024

Pilots can offer value beyond just experimentation, of course. McKinsey reports that industrial design teams using LLM-powered summaries of user research and AI-generated images for ideation and experimentation sometimes see a reduction upward of 70% in product development cycle times. What are you measuring?

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 23, 2006

Start with measuring these Outcomes metrics (revenue, leads, profit margins, improved product mix, number of new customers etc). Get competitive data (we are at x% of zz metric and our competition is at x+9% of zz metric). Great for a couple months and then you lose the audience. 6 Reporting is not Analysis.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

Too many new things are happening too fast and those of us charged with measuring it have to change the wheels while the bicycle is moving at 30 miles per hour (and this bicycle will become a car before we know it – all while it keeps moving, ever faster). It has simply not had a break to catch a breath and mature. Likely not.

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AWS Big Data

JANUARY 15, 2025

After experimentation, the data science teams can share their assets and publish their models to an Amazon DataZone business catalog using the integration between Amazon SageMaker and Amazon DataZone.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Measure everything Looking for ROI too soon is often a product of poor planning, says Rowan Curran, an AI and data science analyst at Forrester. Organizations rolling out AI tools first need to set reasonable expectations and establish key metrics to measure the value of the deployment , he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Research from IDC predicts that we will move from the experimentation phase, the GenAI scramble that we saw in 2023 and 2024, and mature into the adoption phase in 2025/26 before moving into AI-fuelled businesses in 2027 and beyond. Issues around data governance and challenges around clear metrics follow the top challenge areas.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 28, 2023

As today’s great leaders recognize, true success is not solely measured by the bottom line but also by the impact a business has on its stakeholders, including employees, partners, and the environment. Here are some ways leaders can cultivate innovation: Build a culture of experimentation. Use data and metrics.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

We'll start with digital at the highest strategic level, which leads us into content marketing, from there it is a quick hop over to the challenge of metrics and silos, followed by a recommendation to optimize for the global maxima, and we end with the last two visuals that cover social investment and social content strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2024

A virtual assistant may save employees time when searching for old documents or composing emails, but most organizations have no idea how much time those tasks have taken historically, having never tracked such metrics before, she says.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 26, 2010

If today you are a content site that is only focused on measuring content consumed try to go deeper to understanding CPA of the ads or Visitor Loyalty. PALM: People Against Lonely Metrics]. So why not your metrics? This is the problem with lonely metrics. Never ever never never never ever present any metric all by itself.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Although the absolute metrics of the sparse vector model can’t surpass those of the best dense vector models, it possesses unique and advantageous characteristics. Experimental data selection For retrieval evaluation, we used to use the datasets from BeIR. We care more about the recall metric.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Foster a culture of innovation: Digital transformation requires innovation and experimentation, and thus a culture for embracing new technologies and ideas. This involves setting up metrics and KPIs and regularly reviewing them to identify areas for improvement.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

The organization functions off a clearly defined Digital Marketing & Measurement Model. #1. They are generic mash-ups that tailor to almost no one's needs, and more often than not contain awful things like nine not-really-thought out metrics for one dimension in a report. You know what your Return on Analytics is!

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 10, 2006

Actionable Insights & Metrics are the uber-goal simply because they drive strategic differentiation and a sustainable competitive advantage. No more measuring HITS. This element of the Trinity exists to measure how well is the website doing in meeting the goal of its existence. Its goal is not to do reporting. A bit extreme?

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

You'll measure Task Completion Rate in 4Q (below). You'll measure Share of Search using Insights for Search (below). Only a plea to obsessively obsess about measuring outcomes and compute economic value, not just revenue. Mongoose Metrics ~ ifbyphone. Experimentation and Testing Tools [The "Why" – Part 1].

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 9, 2023

Understanding E-commerce Conversion Rates There are a number of metrics that data-driven e-commerce companies need to focus on. It is a crucial metric that provides priceless information about your website’s ability to transform visitors into paying customers. Some of the most important is conversion rates.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

To ensure customer delight was delivered in a timely manner, it was also decided that Average Call Time (ACT) would now be The success metric. The success metric, ACT, did go down. The qualitative surveys measuring unhappiness went down even more than before. Metrics matter. You are what you measure.

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DataKitchen

OCTOBER 5, 2021

DataOps enables: Rapid experimentation and innovation for the fastest delivery of new insights to customers. Clear measurement and monitoring of results. Measure success. Process measurement – construct dashboards on every aspect of the data lifecycle for unprecedented process transparency. Low error rates.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Five different sources of data, that require you to have multiple tools to measure success. Experimentation & Testing : Google Website Optimizer, Offermatica, Optimost etc. Neither measures what a traditional web analytics tool does, so no overlap, but each brings its unique strengths to the business of web data.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 18, 2010

And as recently as two weeks ago I stressed the importance of effective segmentation as the cornerstone of the Web Analytics Measurement Framework. Key elements of the Web Analytics Measurement Framework.]. Apply on the relevant reports to measure performance using key performance indicators. The Problem. All visits.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 8, 2022

First, it’s a straightforward proposition whose end state is relatively easy to envision and measure, making it a nice palate cleanser for those still wrapping their heads around the broader operating model shift. Disadvantages.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

APRIL 16, 2019

by MICHAEL FORTE Large-scale live experimentation is a big part of online product development. This means a small and growing product has to use experimentation differently and very carefully. This blog post is about experimentation in this regime. Such decisions involve an actual hypothesis test on specific metrics (e.g.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

3 ] Provide you with a bushel of specific multichannel measurement ideas to help quantify the offline impact of your online presence. Why should you care about measuring multichannel impact? There are many jobs your website is doing, it is your job to measure the holistic impact. Bonus Tip : But don't stop there.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

I strongly encourage you to read the post and deeply understand all three and what your marketing and measurement possibilities and limitations are. You can even use that column to adjust some of the budget allocation right now, without any attribution modeling, and measure the outcome. Then Experimentation. Then MCA-O2S.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

This is a simple custom report I use to look at the aggregated view: As the report above demonstrates, you can still report on your other metrics, like Unique Visitors, Bounce Rates, Per Visit Value and many others, at an aggregated level. And of course our Acquisition, Behavior, Outcome metrics. Controlled experimentation.

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