DataRobot

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Back when I was doing my undergraduate degree, I remember being asked to proofread a friend’s economics essay. I didn’t make it past the first paragraph before spotting the surprising phrase “John Maynard Keynes' work was impotent.”

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Edwin Chen

MARCH 13, 2011

I’m now (very slowly) trying to clean up my notes and put them online. For example, to predict how you would rate the first Harry Potter movie, the user-based approach looks at how your friends rated the first Harry Potter movie, while the item-based approach looks at how you rated movies like Lord of the Rings and Twilight.

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Domino Data Lab

JULY 22, 2019

Back to my talk. First up, if you haven’t seen this, John Tukey…by the way, we have socks for John Tukey. John Tukey was a mathematician at Bell Labs. If you read Edward Tufte or if you take this class, you’ll hear all about John Tukey. We had 668 people registered. I loved that.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 22, 2011

Here you'll find all my blog posts categorized into a structure that will hopefully make it easy for you to discover new content, find answers to your questions, or simply wallow in some excellent analytics narratives. How can my company become great? . How can my company become great?" My Friend John.

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Domino Data Lab

APRIL 3, 2019

In particular, here’s my Strata SF talk “Overview of Data Governance” presented in article form. My interest in data governance (DG) began with the recent industry surveys by O’Reilly Media about enterprise adoption of “ABC” (AI, Big Data, Cloud). That last point is what I’ll take away as my north star for DG. It’s a mess.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 19, 2022

When your children, friends, or acquaintances, ask what you do for a living, how do you, a CIO, answer them? “I Since my team and I spend all day every day helping companies define their technology leadership needs, I have a vested interest in creating some clarity around the CIO role.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

I have a lot on my mind but there was one thing in particular that I wanted to share with you all: What it is has been like working at Google. I went into Google with my own filters and expectations on what the experience would be like and what I would end up doing. My reply was " My level of gourmet is Taco Bell " :).

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Domino Data Lab

JUNE 2, 2019

Note that there’s not enough room in an article to cover these presentations adequately so I’ll highlight the keynotes plus a few of my favorites. One of my favorite presentations—and the one I kept hearing quoted by attendees —was the day 1 keynote “ Data Science at Netflix: Principles for Speed & Scale” by Michelle Ufford.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

When I work with companies, I do my very best to bring my deep and undying passion for creativity and digital awesomeness to them. In this blog post I want to try and do something similar by sharing some of my favorite digital experiences with you. John Lewis: Thoughtful Cart and Checkout Experiences for Nonline Outcomes.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 8, 2006

Here is my personal point of view, a check list if you will, on what makes a great Web Insights Analyst (it is important to caveat that this is not me, I only wish I were this good, this is something I aspire to be) : # 10 You have used more than one Web Analytics tool extensively. Tip of the hat to Michelle, Oleg, John and Steven.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 8, 2018

If you are a reader of my newsletter, The Marketing < > Analytics Intersect , you’ve seen me apply it to metrics (last TMAI was on Bounce Rate), reports, frameworks and more. And Amy Davidson and Sheelah Kolhatkar and John Cassidy and Jia Tolentino and… all of 'em. My only choice was to up the game to two years.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 31, 2016

This month my beloved blog is ten years old. My very first post, audaciously, was titled Traditional Web Analytics is Dead (05/15/06). Five minutes ago, 05/30/06, in my stream I saw a tweet by Christian Bartens referencing a post I'd written on 05/19/06! It feels more like five. Would you please add it to the comment below?

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

From observing behavior closely, and from my own experimentation and failure, I've noticed consistent patterns in what great employees do and great bosses do. In my long professional career, I’ve tried to emulate these patterns and to build on them as I try to deliver a non-normal impact to my employers. Be thorough.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 10, 2015

" My reply: " All business will ultimately be digital, so, if anything, web analytics will subsume business analysis! " And, 15 years later I get to go back to my first job title after graduating from MBA school. " That was a half-cheeky reply. Business analysis. No digital. No offline. No just this or that silo.

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datapine

AUGUST 29, 2022

This makes the book really worthy in my opinion, also because the overall organization is well structured and guides through the different parts of the Lambda Architecture really well”. John Stormer, Salesforce.com. 8) Data Smart: Using Data Science to Transform Information into Insight, by John W. Mike Volpe, Hubspot.

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Cloudera

JULY 9, 2018

How do I wrangle in my data science community? by John Thuma, Director of Analytic Solutions, Arcadia Data ( @ AnalyticsRNA ). Only when organizations understand these challenges will they begin to harmonize and put them to work in a seamless fashion. Below we deconstruct three data science iron triangle dilemmas.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

What can I do to ensure that my email goes to the right folder? ]. Update: John Duffy, in comments below, has a great tip: Segment delivery rates by Email Service Provider (ESP). In my earlier posts you might have seen me refer to this as “your Macro Conversion,” the most important thing to your business when you use email marketing.

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Domino Data Lab

JULY 9, 2019

I’m going to try to tell you all about data science at the New York Times, and in case I run out of time my email address and my Twitter are here. Well, we are hiring but… my talk is going to be sort of Pete [Skomoroch]’s talk and Paco [Nathan]’s talk sort of crammed into applications.

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Edwin Chen

AUGUST 21, 2011

My sister adopted a kitten yesterday. Introduction. Suppose you have the following set of sentences: I like to eat broccoli and bananas. I ate a banana and spinach smoothie for breakfast. Chinchillas and kittens are cute. Look at this cute hamster munching on a piece of broccoli. What is latent Dirichlet allocation?

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Occam's Razor

JULY 13, 2017

My primary goal is to expand your horizon so that we can peek over and see new possibilities. In as much, my recommendation is to read one section per day. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the Creator worked very hard, and, I sincerely mean this, they are very clever. It breaks my heart. Scroll back up.

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