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Misleading Statistics Examples – Discover The Potential For Misuse of Statistics & Data In The Digital Age

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These controlling measures are essential and should be part of any experiment or survey – unfortunately, that isn’t always the case. Based on the structure of the chart, it does in fact appear to show that the number of abortions since 2006 experienced substantial growth, while the number of cancer screenings substantially decreased.

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The Perceptual and Cognitive Limits of Multivariate Data Visualization

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Almost all data visualizations are multivariate (i.e., Three graphical approaches are currently available for displaying multiple variables: Encode each variable using a different visual attribute. Encode every variable using the same visual attribute. Encode Each Variable Using a Different Visual Attribute.

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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., Taking measurements at parameter settings further from control parameter settings leads to a lower variance estimate of the slope of the line relating the metric to the parameter.

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An Incredible Analytics Experience: 5 Years of Occam’s Razor

Occam's Razor

My first blog post, on May 15th, 2006, was titled Traditional Web Analytics is Dead (let me emphasize the first word, traditional ). Apologies for the ugly visual, Feedburner is an unfortunately neglected product. A simple way to visualize all that data, and identify trends, is to create a tag cloud.

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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? Even if you are not using Google Analytics you should be able to do all this with Omniture or Visual Sciences or HBX or WebTrends or CoreMetrics etc etc etc. 3: Measure Internal Site Search Quality. #4:

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 8

Domino Data Lab

Cloud gets introduced: Amazon AWS launched in public beta in 2006. Mobile gets introduced: the term “ CrackBerry ” becomes a thing in 2006, followed by the launch of the iPhone the following year. Now the picture starts getting more cluttered. Edge caches become crucial for managing data on its way from web servers to mobile devices.

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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. And to visualize it in a report. There is no upper limit to effective ways to visualize data.