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Benchmarking Performance: Your Options, Dos, Don'ts and To-Die-Fors!

Occam's Razor

If you have set the targets for your KPIs up front (Unique Visitors for Sept. Make sure you don't have anything on your strategic dashboards that does not have a pre-identified target. One more metric I love and adore highlighting to the senior leaders in companies is the KPI Page Value in Google Analytics.

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Data Science at The New York Times

Domino Data Lab

When I showed up in 2013…there was pain. For visualization we’re not building our own dashboards. None of my papers that I wrote at Columbia had somebody make a little moving pitch deck like this for me before. If you wanted data it meant that you wrote Java MapReduce and you hit buckets of JSON sitting in S3.