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Know Your Data Ingredients

Juice Analytics

Metrics are the data values that measure performance. These are the ways you slice and dice your metrics. For each one, you’ll want to understand the following: Define - A common definition that everyone in the organization can agree on Calculate - What mathematical operations do you apply to the data before you show the values?

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The Complete Digital Analytics Ecosystem: How To Win Big

Occam's Razor

Helpful post: You Are What You Measure, So Choose Your KPIs (Incentives) Wisely! ]. Definition? As we develop more sophistication to our measurement, they'll morph from being attributes of a Visitor to those of a Person. You need to slice! You need to dice! Repeat after me: Slice, dice, drill!!

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Measuring Validity and Reliability of Human Ratings

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

E ven after we account for disagreement, human ratings may not measure exactly what we want to measure. Researchers and practitioners have been using human-labeled data for many years, trying to understand all sorts of abstract concepts that we could not measure otherwise. That’s the focus of this blog post.

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Web Analytics 101: Definitions: Goals, Metrics, KPIs, Dimensions, Targets

Occam's Razor

Definitions and standard perspectives on these terms will be covered in this post: Business Objectives. A standard definition will be provided, but more than that my hope is to solidify your understanding with concrete examples and pictures. The post will end with a Web Analytics Measurement Framework. Dimensions.

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12 Marketing Reports Examples You Can Use For Annual, Monthly, Weekly And Daily Reporting Practice

datapine

Management thinker Peter Drucker once stated, “if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it” – and he couldn’t be more right. But first, we will start with a basic definition and some tips on creating these kinds of reports. To know if you are successful, you first need to define success and track it. Let’s dig deeper.

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Business Intelligence vs. Reporting: Finding Your Bread and Butter

Jet Global

If you’re stumbling across this post through the sea of results researching “business intelligence vs. reporting,” then maybe you’re already familiar with the unlimited interpretations and definitions of these two practices. OLAP cubes do all the work by dimensionalizing all combinations of slicing and dicing the data ahead of time.

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Data scientist as scientist

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

By definition, it is hard to disentangle causes and effects in these settings because it is rarely possible to isolate all relevant factors. As you can see from the tiny confidence intervals on the graphs, big data ensured that measurements, even in the finest slices, were precise.