Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

It is possible to specifically nail down every incremental dollar added to the bottom-line of adding YouTube to your Search campaigns and then adding radio campaigns and then adding magazine ads and then adding Twitter. Bonus 2: Google Analytics has a wonderful set of reports called Multi-Channel Funnels. What do you find exciting?

Measurement 119

Measurement Advertising Testing Marketing 119

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 6, 2023

As well as a process that includes human review, and encourages experimentation and thorough evaluation of AI suggestions, guardrails need to be put in place as well to stop tasks from being fully automated when it’s not appropriate. Human reviewers should be trained to critically assess AI output, not just accept it at face value.”

IT 133

IT Risk Management Interactive Modeling 133

Domino Data Lab

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Spoiler alert: a research field called curiosity-driven learning is emerging at the nexis of experimental cognitive psychology and industry use cases for machine learning, particularly in gaming AI. Ensure a culture that supports a steady process of learning and experimentation. Let’s roll the clock back ~65 years.

Data Science 66

Data Science Experimentation Data-driven Machine Learning 66

Occam's Razor

MAY 27, 2015

How about magazines? Yes, you can get some weak demographic or, a bit better, psychographic signals from surveys TV channels or magazines did. It is an investment in numerous report writers or data (puking) automation or hiring a small army in India or Philippines to do that, before investing in any smart Analyst.

Marketing Analytics 153

Marketing Analytics Marketing Analytics Advertising 153

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Reporting/dashboards were terribly created ( CDPs anyone? ). It will get you to dive deeper into what site/app sections people visit, what they are not reading, what they do read, how many unique page views does it take to get a Lead, what about freshness of content, anything about layout and experimentation, so on and so forth.

Key Performance Indicator 106

Key Performance Indicator Metrics Measurement Advertising 106

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 9, 2012

How good can it possibly feel to do unimaginative things that barely even worked on TV/radio/magazines/catalogs? Allocate some of your aforementioned 15% budget to experimentation and testing. If you partake in analysis , let that be at the intersection of custom reports and advanced segments.

Marketing 140

Marketing B2B Measurement Risk 140

Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

It is expensive from a systems/platforms/data processing/data reporting perspective. Focus on incredible behavior metrics like Pages/Visit, focus on the Visitor Flow report, obsess about Checkout Abandonment Rate, make love to Average Order Size. My hypothesis is that TV/Radio/Magazines have created this bad habit.

Marketing 166

Marketing Metrics Advertising Measurement 166