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

Occam's Razor

We are all blessed with more data than we know what to do with, and all for the price of a few lines of JavaScript added to your website. In this type of an environment, I've frequently stressed the value of identifying targets for your key performance indicators. Competitor Data Benchmarks.

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It's Not The Ink, It's The Think: 6 Effective Data Visualization Strategies

Occam's Razor

Ten years, and the 944,357 words, are proof that I love purposeful data, collecting it, pouring smart strategies into analyzing it, and using the insights identified to transform organizations. In the quest for that last important bit, I am insanely obsessive about 1. simplification and 2. pressing the right emotional buttons.

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7 Data Presentation Tips: Think, Focus, Simplify, Calibrate, Visualize++

Occam's Razor

There are three elements to our "big data" efforts, or unhyped normal data efforts: Data Collection, Data Reporting, and Data Analysis. Finally, this is picky, but why is most of the x-axis yearly and then suddenly just until Q2, 2013? Surprisingly sloppy from McKinsey, right?

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Eight Silly Data Things Marketing People Believe That Get Them Fired.

Occam's Razor

Some absolutely did not use data to do their digital jobs. A benchmark for you: In 2013 if 30% of your time, Ms./Mr. Marketer, is not spent with data you''ll fail to achieve professional success.]. Many used some data, but they unfortunately used silly data strategies/metrics. You'll get fired.

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What Is Embedded Analytics?

Jet Global

In the past, data visualizations were a powerful way to differentiate a software application. Companies like Tableau (which raised over $250 million when it had its IPO in 2013) demonstrated an unmet need in the market. Let’s just give our customers access to the data. Their dashboards were visually stunning.