Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

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. They will need two different implementations, it is quite likely that you will end up with two sets of metrics (more people focused for mobile apps, more visit focused for sites).

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Occam's Razor

JULY 26, 2010

PALM: People Against Lonely Metrics]. So why not your metrics? This is the problem with lonely metrics. Why not find a BFF for your lonely metric and present something like this. I found a "you complete me" for my Visits metric, Bounce Rate. Or an actual outcome metric. 2: Join the PALM club.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

My problem with these mistruths and FUD is that they result in a ton of practitioners and companies making profoundly sub optimal choices, which in turn results in not just much longer slogs but also spectacular career implosions and the entire web analytics industry suffering. This is sad. Even a little frustrating. Likely not.

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The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

With more features come more potential post hoc hypotheses about what is driving metrics of interest, and more opportunity for exploratory analysis. We data scientists now have access to tools that allow us to run a large numbers of experiments, and then to slice experimental populations by any combination of dimensions collected.

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