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Methods of Study Design – Experiments

Data Science 101

Researchers/ scientists perform experiments to validate their hypothesis/ statements or to test a new product. Bias ( syatematic unfairness in data collection ) can be a potential problem in experiments and we need to take it into account while designing experiments. For eg: you measure the blood pressure of a person.

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Unintentional data

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

1]" Statistics, as a discipline, was largely developed in a small data world. Implicitly, there was a prior belief about some interesting causal mechanism or an underlying hypothesis motivating the collection of the data. We must correct for multiple hypothesis tests. We ought not dredge our data.

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Euro Soccer Special: What Football Teaches Us About Analytics

Sisense

It’s no surprise that rivals followed suit and that by 2010 analytics were widely used by top teams in leading international leagues. Like every other business, football has experienced rapid technological advances that generate and capture data from training and match play. FIFA didn’t even start counting assists until 1994 !

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Magnificent Mobile Website And App Analytics: Reports, Metrics, How-to!

Occam's Razor

In blue is how much time we spent in 2010 and in blue the time spent in 2014. was the dramatic shift between 2010 to 2014 to mobile content consumption. But why blame others, in this post let's focus on one important reason whose responsibility can be squarely put on your shoulders and mine: Measurement.

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Web Analytics 101: Definitions: Goals, Metrics, KPIs, Dimensions, Targets

Occam's Razor

The post will end with a Web Analytics Measurement Framework. Point of confusion: Many web analytics tools, like Google Analytics , have a feature that encourages you to measure Goals. It is possible that some Analytics Tool Goals directly measure your business objectives or goals. Web Analytics Measurement Framework.

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10 Fundamental Web Analytics Truths: Embrace 'Em & Win Big

Occam's Razor

Too many new things are happening too fast and those of us charged with measuring it have to change the wheels while the bicycle is moving at 30 miles per hour (and this bicycle will become a car before we know it – all while it keeps moving, ever faster). . ~ Usually at least a test. And I doubt it is going to happen soon.

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Why Data Driven Decision Making is Your Path To Business Success

datapine

By implementing the right reporting tools and understanding how to analyze as well as to measure your data accurately, you will be able to make the kind of data driven decisions that will drive your business forward. What Is Data Driven Decision Making? Quantitative data analysis focuses on numbers and statistics.