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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. Circle of Friends was a social community built atop Facebook that launched in 2007. Online, offline or nonline. Case Study 2: Circle of Friends.

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Themes and Conferences per Pacoid, Episode 6

Domino Data Lab

We’ll unpack curiosity as a core attribute of effective data science, look at how that informs process for data science (in contrast to Agile, etc.), and dig into details about where science meets rhetoric in data science. That body of work has much to offer the practice of leading data science teams. Yuri Burda, et al.