Edwin Chen

JANUARY 2, 2012

Imagine you have a sequence of snapshots from a day in Justin Bieber’s life, and you want to label each image with the activity it represents (eating, sleeping, driving, etc.). How can you do this? One way is to ignore the sequential nature of the snapshots, and build a per-image classifier. For example, given a month’s worth of labeled snapshots, you might learn that dark images taken at 6am tend to be about sleeping, images with lots of bright colors tend to be about dancing, images of cars ar

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Howard Dresner

JANUARY 9, 2012

Hello All! Respondents to our Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study ® are able to report on any BI vendor they like. However, we provide a list of vendors that they can select from, as well as an "other" option. Here's our current (updated) list of vendors for the upcoming study: Actuate Alteryx Arcplan Birst Datawatch Dimensional Insight Domo (Corda) Entrinsik Good Data IBM/Cognos/SPSS Infor Information Builders (IBI) IntuitiveBI Jackbe Jaspersoft Jedox/Palo Klipfolio LogiXML Lyza

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

It is painfully heartbreaking to realize that a very small tiny number of people who have access to web analytics tools actually use them. I mean really use the tools. Ravage all the features. Exploit every possible button. Produce built-in visualization magic. Poke into the hidden crevices and discover exotic delights. Nourish yourself with the "info snacks" the tool's engineers and product managers cooked up.

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Nutanix

JANUARY 28, 2012

We had a great Sales Kickoff last week. In preparation for it, Marketing created a quick video for our sales team as a fun way to start.

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Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

Experimentation

Edwin Chen

JANUARY 16, 2012

This is a bare-bones introduction to ggplot2 , a visualization package in R. It assumes no knowledge of R. For a better-looking version of this post, see this Github repository , which also contains some of the example datasets I use and a literate programming version of this tutorial. Preview. Let’s start with a preview of what ggplot2 can do.

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Howard Dresner

JANUARY 6, 2012

Hello Folks and Happy New Year! A new year promises fresh beginnings and signals the advent of the next Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study ® cycle! Having started in earnest in 2010, this will be our third comprehensive study of the BI marketplace - and our most ambitious to date! We're in the process of developing and finalizing the survey instrument now and expect to start data collection within weeks.

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