Occam's Razor

JANUARY 31, 2017

Ten years, and the 944,357 words, are proof that I love purposeful data, collecting it, pouring smart strategies into analyzing it, and using the insights identified to transform organizations. Don't fragment data, don't forget higher order bits. Sell smarter, make choices, love your boss/client. simplification and 2.

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Depict Data Studio

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Since EASL is a volunteer organization , board members felt it was beneficial to develop a style guide for the organization to ensure future volunteers had guidelines when developing EASL related promotional materials and /or reports to ensure a consistent look and feel to these products. Louis (EASL). What is a Style Guide? The result?

Visualization 58

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Data analysis is not easy. I love that the analyst is segmenting the data rather than showing the aggregate trend ("all data in aggregate is essentially crap" – me). Before you jump to my reveal below this graphic, can you guess what's wrong with this data? That is part of the joy. Found the problem?

Statistics 130

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 21, 2009

You know what is the one thing stopping you from finding truly actionable insights from your web data? Web analytics gems lie deep in the data and we spend our lives looking at the top ten rows of data. We look at the top ten rows of data because: 1. Too much data from our web analytics tools. Affiliates.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Accelerate threat detection and response (TDR) using AI-powered centralized log management and security observability It is not news to most that cyberattacks have become easier to launch and harder to stop as attackers have gotten smarter and faster. The average cost of a data breach set a new record in 2023 of USD 4.45

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

As in, the former is in the business of providing data, the latter in the business of understanding the performance implied by the data. We send out our multi-tab spreadsheets, our best Google Analytics custom reports , our great dashboards full of data , and more to the tactical layer of data clients. This is bonkers.

Visualization 160

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Sisense

MAY 5, 2019

Your sales reps are responsible for nurturing and guiding the best possible prospects down your sales pipeline so you want to make sure they have the data transparency they need to consistently deliver the value they’re responsible for generating. So the data your reps see in one platform may not be the most up-to-date. Time wasted.

Sales 75

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Some of you know that I created the phrases Reporting Squirrels and Analysis Ninjas to emphasize the difference between those that puke data and those that puke insights with actions attached to them. Just data puking. One row after another of data puking skills. Visual perception of information.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

There are three elements to our "big data" efforts, or unhyped normal data efforts: Data Collection, Data Reporting, and Data Analysis. More on that here: DC-DR-DA: A Simple Framework For Smarter Decisions.). Data presentation! Your data presentation is your brand. #2. The last mile.

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Octopai

AUGUST 3, 2020

How do you feel when you hear the words “BI system migration?” Do you begin visualizing yourself planted at your desk for the next, oh say, 100 years, growing old trying to deal with this massive project? More specifically, you must establish a clear inventory of the data that your company processes.

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Metadata Reporting Data Warehouse Business Intelligence 61

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

Hence, I have been obsessed with encouraging you to get actual data to learn from. The problem for many new or experienced analysts has been that they either don't have access to any dataset (newbies) or the data they have access to is finite or from an incomplete or incorrect implementation (experienced). Let's go!

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

There are few things more complicated in analytics (all analytics, big data and huge data!) There is lots of missing data. And as if that were not enough, there is lots of unknowable data. than multi-channel attribution modeling. " low. A lot of that is because of all the stuff we don't know.

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Modeling Optimization Marketing Interactive 161

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2013

Would you believe me when I say that your digital analytics data, from Google Analytics or WebTrends et. We do have A LOT of data in our analytics tools. How can we look at tens of thousands of rows of data? Step One: Count the amount of content in each area of your site, the data will be in your CMS platform.

Marketing 135

Marketing Statistics Strategy Consulting 135

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

When it comes to marketing because of the old world thinking from the worlds of sTelevision and Magazines, and when it comes to measurement because of the world of traditional web analytics. For example just look at traditional web analytics tools, there is absolutely no fresh thinking when it comes to Social Media Measurement.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

But a larger part of the reason is that companies don't quite make the right choices in what behavior to incentivize, they make mistakes when creating the organization structure, and in the expectations that are set for what success looks like. Reporting Squirrels spend 75% or more of their time in data production activities.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 10, 2013

It is not quite about web analytics, not quite about data you can just get from WebTrends or Google Analytics, and not quite about just making yet another pretty chart. We have too much data on the web. Everyone likes chasing big shiny objects all the time. What's not to like. They are big. They are shiny. :). I'm a 83.

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Metrics Analytics Key Performance Indicator Measurement 140

Andrew White

JANUARY 11, 2021

It was titled, The Gartner 2021 Leadership Vision for Data & Analytics Leaders. This was for the Chief Data Officer, or head of data and analytics. The fill report is here: Leadership Vision for 2021: Data and Analytics. Which industry, sector moves fast and successful with data-driven? Ooo good question.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

When you are done reading the post, you'll be super mad that your marketing strategy is not more influenced by your competitor's data! Since then, as luck would have it, we have more tools, they are smarter, and have richer data-sets. How is competitive intelligence data collected? CI data collection.

Metrics 155

Metrics Reporting IT Advertising 155

Occam's Razor

JULY 13, 2017

I believe deeply in the value of making data accessible. In service of that belief, there are few things that bring me as much joy as visualizing data (smart segmentation comes close). I’ve curated sixteen extremely diverse visualization examples to do that. 6: Turbocharging Data Visuals with Storytelling.

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