Scapegoating Analysts | Recognizing & Preventing A Bad Idea.
Here’s a sign that you’ve arrived as an Analyst or an Analytics team: At the first sign of failure reported by the data, most people blame you (Analyst/Data). Wear it as a badge of honor! It means your analysis has identified insights that are big enough, important enough, that the recipients get instantly worried. Ideally, […]
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Transform Data’s Impact: Pick The Right Success KPI!
Your analysis provides clear data that the campaign was a (glorious) failure. It could not be clearer. The KPI you chose for your brand campaign was Trust, it had a pre-set target of +5. The post-campaign analysis that compares performance across Test & Control cells shows that Trust did not move at all. (Suspiciously, there […]
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Winning With Data: Say No To Insights, Yes To Out-of-sights!
If there is one thing the universe agrees on, it is that you should just provide data… You should provide INSIGHTS!!! In the 807,150 (!) words I’ve written on this blog thus far, at least 400,000 have been dedicated to helping you find insights. In posts about advanced segmentation, in posts about how to build […]
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The Most Important Business KPIs. (Spoiler: Not Conversion Rate!)
I was reading a paper by a respected industry body that started by flagging head fake KPIs. I love that moniker, head fake. Likes. Sentiment/Comments. Shares. Yada, yada, yada. This is great. We can all use head fake metrics to calling out useless activity metrics. [I would add other head fake KPIs to the list: […]
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Increase Analytics Influence: Leverage Predictive Metrics!
Almost all metrics you currently use have one common thread: They are almost all backward-looking. If you want to deepen the influence of data in your organization – and your personal influence – 30% of your analytics efforts should be centered around the use of forward-looking metrics. Predictive metrics! But first, let’s take a small […]
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How To: Be A Good Employee, Be A Great Boss | #winningcareers
Like many of you, I am both an employee and a people leader. At different points of the day, sometimes from one minute to the next, I have to switch gears so that I can be fully present as both a good employee and a good people leader. This constant quest for excellence, from one […]
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Simple Tricks To Up-level Your Analytics Reports.
Like you, I consume a whole lot of reports every day – company data, public data. Many are acceptable, some are very good and all the rest leave me extremely frustrated with both the ink and the think. People make so many obvious mistakes. Sometimes repeatedly. Just yesterday I was quietly seething because none of […]
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Five Strategies for Slaying the Data Puking Dragon.
If you bring sharp focus, you increase chances of attention being diverted to the right places. That in turn will drive smarter questions, which will elicit thoughtful answers from available data. The result will be data-influenced actions that result in a long-term strategic advantage. It all starts with sharp focus. Consider these three scenarios… Your […]
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Digital Analytics + Marketing Career Advice: Your Now, Next, Long Plan
The rapid pace of innovation and the constantly exploding collection of possibilities is a major contributor to the fun we all have in digital jobs. There is never a boring moment, there is never time when you can’t do something faster or smarter. The tiny downside of this is that our parents likely never had […]
Digital Analytics + Marketing Career Advice: Your Now, Next, Long Plan is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Create High-Impact Data Visualizations: Nine Effective Strategies
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). There is something magical about taking the tons and tons of complexity that lurks in our data, being able to find the core […]
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The Very Best Digital Metrics For 15 Different Companies!
The very best analysts distill, rather than dilute. The very best analysts focus, when most will tend to gather. The very best analysts are display critical thinking, rather than giving into what’s asked. The very best analysts are comfortable operating with ambiguity and incompleteness, while all others chase perfection in implementation / processing / reports. […]
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Cookies To Humans: Implications Of Identity Systems On Incentives!
A story where data is the hero, followed by two mind-challenging business-shifting ideas. At a previous employer customer service on the phone was a huge part of the operation. Qualitative surveys were giving the company a read that customers were unhappy with the service being provided. As bad customer service is a massive long-term cost […]
Cookies To Humans: Implications Of Identity Systems On Incentives! is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
It’s Not The Ink, It’s The Think: 6 Effective Data Visualization Strategies
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. In the quest for that last important bit, I am insanely obsessive about 1. simplification and 2. pressing the right emotional buttons. The reasons are that […]
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Five Key Elements For A Big Analytics Driven Business Impact
There is, almost literally, an unlimited number of things you could focus on to create a high impact data-influenced organization. And, as if unlimited is not enough, nearly every month your analytics vendors release new features, you discover new analytics solutions, and as your business is more successful (hurray!) there is a new mobile app […]
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Five Key Elements For A Big Analytics Driven Business Impact
There is, almost literally, an unlimited number of things you could focus on to create a high impact data-influenced organization. And, as if unlimited is not enough, nearly every month your analytics vendors release new features, you discover new analytics solutions, and as your business is more successful (hurray!) there is a new mobile app […]
Five Key Elements For A Big Analytics Driven Business Impact is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Digital Attribution’s Ladder of Awesomeness: Nine Critical Steps
Culture is a stronger determinant of success with data than anything else. Including data. [People + Process + Structure] > [Data + Technology] It seems hard to believe. Yet, it is so fantastically true. At least for now. At least until AGI takes over. Why is this formula material? The first part of the equation, […]
Digital Attribution’s Ladder of Awesomeness: Nine Critical Steps is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Digital Attribution’s Ladder of Awesomeness: Nine Critical Steps
Culture is a stronger determinant of success with data than anything else. Including data. [People + Process + Structure] > [Data + Technology] It seems hard to believe. Yet, it is so fantastically true. At least for now. At least until AGI takes over. Why is this formula material? The first part of the equation, […]
Digital Attribution’s Ladder of Awesomeness: Nine Critical Steps is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Smarter Survey Results and Impact: Abandon the Asker-Puker Model!
Today’s post comes from a source of deep pain. Analysis Ninjas are valued less than I would prefer for them to be. The post is also sourced from a recent edition of my newsletter, The Marketing – Analytics Intersect. I send it once a week, and it contains my insights and recommendations on those two […]
Smarter Survey Results and Impact: Abandon the Asker-Puker Model! is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Smarter Survey Results and Impact: Abandon the Asker-Puker Model!
Today’s post comes from a source of deep pain. Analysis Ninjas are valued less than I would prefer for them to be. The post is also sourced from a recent edition of my newsletter, The Marketing – Analytics Intersect. I send it once a week, and it contains my insights and recommendations on those two […]
Smarter Survey Results and Impact: Abandon the Asker-Puker Model! is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Be Real-World Smart: A Beginner’s Advanced Google Analytics Guide
Being book smart is good. The outcome of book smart is rarely better for analytics practitioners then folks trying to learn how to fly an airplane from how-to books. Hence, I have been obsessed with encouraging you to get actual data to learn from. This is all the way from Aug 2009: Web Analytics Career […]
Be Real-World Smart: A Beginner’s Advanced Google Analytics Guide is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik