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What is ITIL? Your guide to the IT Infrastructure Library

CIO Business Intelligence

ITIL 4 contains seven guiding principles that were adopted from the most recent ITIL Practitioner Exam, which covers organizational change management, communication, and measurement and metrics. The two bodies formed an alliance at the end of 2006 to further IT service management. How does ITIL reduce costs?

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The Complete Digital Analytics Ecosystem: How To Win Big

Occam's Razor

At the core of everything you will do in digital analytics is the concept of metrics. How do you define a metric: It is simply a number. Your digital analytics tools are full of metrics. Helpful post: Best Metrics For Digital Marketing: Rock Your Own And Rent Strategies.]. Now you have your foundation, metrics and KPIs.

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Kick Butt With Internal Site Search Analytics

Occam's Razor

I had first written about the wonders of site search analysis in a June 2006 post: Are You Into Internal Site Search Analysis? This post is using screenshots of the new Google Internal Search Analysis reports but the process of understanding the search data will apply to all companies. This next report is my favorite of the bunch.

Analytics 101
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Excellent Analytics Tip #27: Chase Smart Calculated Metrics!

Occam's Razor

Not just insane, so visibly insane that everyone should see through it and fix their minds/reports/strategies. Every standard report in every standard tool is configured off Visits (or in Google Analytics language, Sessions), rather than Visitors (GA language, Users). Metrics create incentives, bad metrics create bad incentives.

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Analyze Amazon S3 storage costs using AWS Cost and Usage Reports, Amazon S3 Inventory, and Amazon Athena

AWS Big Data

Since its launch in 2006, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) has experienced major growth, supporting multiple use cases such as hosting websites, creating data lakes, serving as object storage for consumer applications, storing logs, and archiving data. Enable the Cost and Usage Reports. Run queries in Athena.

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A Great Analyst's Best Friends: Skepticism & Wisdom!

Occam's Razor

A 2014 AOL report and an online survey with n=600. This post is from 2006: Data Quality Sucks, Let's Just Get Over It You'll learn the six step process you can use to overcome the paralysis. Information: You are a report creator, you fix code in emergencies. Then, I asked for the source of data. It was horse-manure.

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Towards optimal experimentation in online systems

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

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.