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Know Your Data Ingredients

Juice Analytics

1) Separate your metrics from your dimensions. Metrics are the data values that measure performance. The metrics are often the stars of the show ( Metrics are the Characters of Data Stories ) — like the proteins of your dishes. These are the ways you slice and dice your metrics.

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The Complete Digital Analytics Ecosystem: How To Win Big

Occam's Razor

At the core of everything you will do in digital analytics is the concept of metrics. How do you define a metric: It is simply a number. Your digital analytics tools are full of metrics. Helpful post: Best Metrics For Digital Marketing: Rock Your Own And Rent Strategies.]. Now you have your foundation, metrics and KPIs.

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Common Business Intelligence Challenges Facing Entrepreneurs

datapine

Robust dashboards can be easily implemented, allowing potential savings and profits to be quickly highlighted with simple slicing and dicing of the data. 4) Businesses aren’t measuring the right indicators. Organizations are quick to measure financial KPIs , but unfortunately, they often stop there.

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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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Ten Hidden Gems In Google Analytics: Do Smarter Web Data Analysis!

Occam's Razor

You can simply click on either one of the two above and see the valuable-drilldown view… All the standard Acquisition, Behavior and Outcome metrics you are used to can be leveraged to identify valuable segments. I then see Clicks, the metric that is close to (But Not The Same As) Visits. Remember, it will intrude into your life.

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13 power tips for Microsoft Power BI

CIO Business Intelligence

With Power BI, you can pull data from almost any data source and create dashboards that track the metrics you care about the most. What-if parameters also create calculated measures you can reference elsewhere. Integrate with Office If your users prefer to slice and dice with Pivot tables, Power BI data can also be used in Excel.

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

Occam's Razor

"What is the difference between a metric and a key performance indicator (KPI)?" " "Are goals metrics?" There seems to be genuine confusion about the simplest, most foundational, parts of web metrics / analytics. The post will end with a Web Analytics Measurement Framework. " And many more.

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