Occam's Razor

1. 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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2. Strategic Marketing Analytics: CMO Dashboards That Rock!

   An extraordinary amount of time, effort, $$$ are spent on building dashboards/scorecards for CMOs… Yet, the end result, nearly always, is a useless data puke. It turns out boiling the ocean is hard. To build an effective big picture scorecard for the CMO, that is not data pukey, there are three crucial challenges that have […]

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3. 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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4. 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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5. Robust Experimentation and Testing | Reasons for Failure!

   Since you're reading a blog on advanced analytics, I'm going to assume that you have been exposed to the magical and amazing awesomeness of experimentation and testing. It truly is the bee's knees. You are likely aware that there are entire sub-cultures (and their attendant Substacks) dedicated to the most granular ideas around experimentation (usually […]

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