Smarter Career Choices #3: Solve for the Global Maxima!
Today, a simple lesson that so many of us miss at great peril. In fact in your role, at this very moment, your company is making a mistake in terms of how it values your impact on the business. The lesson is about the limitation of optimizing for a local maxima, usually in a silo. […]
Smarter Career Choices #3: Solve for the Global Maxima! 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 […]
Create High-Impact Data Visualizations: Nine Effective Strategies is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
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. […]
The Very Best Digital Metrics For 15 Different Companies! is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Artificial Intelligence: Implications On Marketing, Analytics, And You
A rare post today. It looks a little further out into the future than I normally tend to. It attempts to simplify a topic that has more than it’s share of coolness, confusion and complexity. While the phrase Artificial Intelligence has been around since the first human wondered if she could go further if she […]
Artificial Intelligence: Implications On Marketing, Analytics, And You is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
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
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
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
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
Ad Block Tracking With Google Analytics: Code, Metrics, Reports
You don’t use an ad blocker, right? Of course not! You would never want to take away the opportunity a content creator has online to monetize their work via ads. I know that at least some of you think I’m being sarcastic. I am not, and this post is all about getting the data to […]
Ad Block Tracking With Google Analytics: Code, Metrics, Reports is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
A Great Analyst’s Best Friends: Skepticism & Wisdom!
Here’s something important I’ve observed in my experience in working with data, and changing organizations with ideas: Great Analysts are always skeptical. Deeply so. This was always true, of course. But, it has become mission critical over the last few years as the depth, breadth, quantity and every other dimension you could apply to data […]
A Great Analyst’s Best Friends: Skepticism & Wisdom! is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Rock Analytics More: Obsess About Goals And Goal Values!
If you don’t have goals, you are not doing digital analytics. You are doing i am wasting earth’s precious oxygenalytics. Let’s back up. Let me start with a story. We were brain storming about the next clustseeer of coolness for Analytics, the conversation quickly went to what Analysts need to look at on a daily, […]
Rock Analytics More: Obsess About Goals And Goal Values! is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Excellent Analytics Tip #27: Chase Smart Calculated Metrics!
For the last decade (#omg!), I’ve consistently complained about a fundamental flaw in Web Analytics tools: They incentivize one night stands, rather than engagements matching customer-intent. This leads to owners of digital experiences (insanely) expecting all visitors to their websites to convert right away – anything less than that is a failure. Damn the intent […]
Excellent Analytics Tip #27: Chase Smart Calculated Metrics! is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Great Storytelling With Data: Visualize Simply And Focus Obsessively
The difference between a Reporting Squirrel and Analysis Ninja? Insights. As in, the former is in the business of providing data, the latter in the business of understanding the performance implied by the data. That understanding leads to insights about why the performance occurred, which leads to so what we should do. [Sidebar] I’m experimenting […]
Great Storytelling With Data: Visualize Simply And Focus Obsessively is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Speed, Focus, Smart Insights: 5 Google Analytics Custom Reports FTW!
Standard reports stink. Custom reports rock! If you are a regular reader of this blog, you are quite familiar with this sentiment. I’ve expressed it often. :) [Sidebar] I’m experimenting with sharing short stories via an insightful newsletter. I’d love for you to sign up: The Marketing Analytics Intersect. Thanks! [/Sidebar] The primary reason is […]
Speed, Focus, Smart Insights: 5 Google Analytics Custom Reports FTW! is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
The Magic of Universal Analytics: Strategy, Tactics, Implementation Tips
In a Q&A after a keynote a couple of years ago, I was asked: “When will traditional business analysis subsume the web analytics silo?” My reply: “All business will ultimately be digital, so, if anything, web analytics will subsume business analysis!” That was a half-cheeky reply. But, if you reflect upon the developments in analytics […]
The Magic of Universal Analytics: Strategy, Tactics, Implementation Tips is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Crushing It With Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Best Metrics, Reports
Half-way through this post, you’ll seriously wonder why you’ve spent so much time obsessing with Adobe/Google Analytics/Chartbeat or other web analytics tool. 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! Such is the power of being able to proactively identify […]
Crushing It With Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Best Metrics, Reports is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
The Complete Digital Analytics Ecosystem: How To Win Big
The world of digital analytics seems to be insanely complicated. And, yes, some of it is. Third-party or first-party cookies anyone? And, are we tracking people, devices, web browsers or whoknowswhat? But it is a lot less complicated than you might believe. No. Really. A lot less complicated. I led a discussion the other day […]
The Complete Digital Analytics Ecosystem: How To Win Big is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Data Visualization Inspiration: Analysis To Insights To Action, Faster!
Like a vast majority on planet Earth, I love data visualizations. Ok, so perhaps as the author of two bestselling books on analytics I love it a little bit more! There is something magical about taking an incredible amount of complexity and presenting it as simply as we possibly can with the goal of letting […]
Data Visualization Inspiration: Analysis To Insights To Action, Faster! is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Magnificent Mobile Website And App Analytics: Reports, Metrics, How-to!
Nothing I can tell you about the importance of having an incredible mobile strategy will surprise you. Mobile devices (phones, tablets, wearables) are transforming how we behave, how we buy, how we consume content, and dare I say how we become happy or we become sad. You after all have all of the aforementioned devices, […]
Magnificent Mobile Website And App Analytics: Reports, Metrics, How-to! is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik