O'Reilly on Data

APRIL 4, 2024

The race to the top is no longer driven by who has the best product or the best business model, but by who has the blessing of the venture capitalists with the deepest pockets—a blessing that will allow them to acquire the most customers the most quickly, often by providing services below cost. Venture capitalists don’t have a crystal ball.

Marketing 154

Marketing Modeling Finance Experimentation 154

Sisense

JANUARY 21, 2020

Everyone wants to get more out of their data, but how exactly to do that can leave you scratching your head. One of the simplest ways to start exploring your data is to aggregate the metrics you are interested in by their relevant dimensions. How can good data lead to faulty conclusions? How does this happen? 9/10 = 90%.

Testing 104

Testing Risk Data-driven Statistics 104

Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

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. It helps you to amplify what’s proven to work, throw away what isn’t, and tweak the goal-posts when data indicates that they may be in the wrong place.

Metrics 156

Metrics KPI Analytics Key Performance Indicator 156

Domino Data Lab

MAY 8, 2019

For example, common practices for collecting data to build training datasets tend to throw away valuable information along the way. The lens of reductionism and an overemphasis on engineering becomes an Achilles heel for data science work. ML model interpretability and data visualization. back to the structure of the dataset.

Machine Learning 105

Machine Learning Data Science Modeling Visualization 105

Occam's Razor

JULY 26, 2010

Suggestions that might increase the probability that you'll bump into things that might be insightful, and communicate data more effectively. The data is easily available in the web analytics tool so why not. Get the data out of the crm / erp / "backend" system. Here we go. #1: 1: Go as deep as you can.

Metrics 96

Metrics Measurement Dashboards Reporting 96

datapine

JANUARY 31, 2022

Because things are changing and becoming more competitive in every sector of business, the benefits of business intelligence and proper use of data analytics are key to outperforming the competition. BI software uses algorithms to extract actionable insights from a company’s data and guide its strategic decisions.

Business Intelligence 214

Business Intelligence Analytics Cost-Benefit ROI 214