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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 8

Domino Data Lab

Most of the data management moved to back-end servers, e.g., databases. So we had three tiers providing a separation of concerns: presentation, logic, data. Note that data warehouse (DW) and business intelligence (BI) practices both emerged circa 1990. Cloud gets introduced: Amazon AWS launched in public beta in 2006.

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Web Analytics: Frequently Asked Questions And Direct Answers

Occam's Razor

Brian Krick: Best way to measure and communicate "available demand" from available channels (social, search, display) for forecast modeling. Additionally, it is exceptionally difficult to measure available demand because 1. because the data is so very not available. No accountability = very little desire to measure.

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Three Amazing Web Data Analyses Techniques For Analysis Ninjas

Occam's Razor

Today when we measure our Cost Per Acquisition (CPA) for our campaigns (Search, Email, Affiliate, whatever), we just think of the macro-conversion and, perhaps worse, we think only of that session / visit. You'll use Excel or a simple database (or possibly the data warehouse versions of Omniture, CoreMetrics, WebTrends). <sidebar>