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

Occam's Razor

Here's the complete year 2013… While the numbers for individual month are different, you can see that October spiked and then things came down to below Sept performance by December. Conversion rates reported by asking a group of companies what they are for their company, are hugely suspect. You can still learn from both.

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Data Science at The New York Times

Domino Data Lab

When I showed up I was reporting to the head of BI who reported to CTO who reported to CIO who reported to EVP of digital products who reported to CEO. At this point data is a function that reports directly to CEO. When I showed up in 2013…there was pain. There’s many ways to do bandits.

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

Occam's Razor

A benchmark for you: In 2013 if 30% of your time, Ms./Mr. It is expensive from a systems/platforms/data processing/data reporting perspective. The difference between a KPI and a metric is that the former has a direct line of sight to your bottom-line, while the latter is helpful in diagnosing tactical challenges.

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