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Advice On How To Make Your First Analytics Hire

View from Seed

As the former Head of Product at Blue Apron where I also built and led our Analytics & Data Science team (I know enough SQL to be dangerous), I have an intuitive sense for the “when” and “what” of this role. Analytics is about designing, reporting, and leveraging operating metrics to aid strategic and functional decision-making.

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What Does the Future Hold for Conversion Optimization?

ConversionXL

Everyone has railed against these practices ( including us , many times), but it still seems that much of the industry is focused on short term metrics and surface level changes. With agile development cycles and uncertain monetization models, they live and die by data and experimentation. Image Source.

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How to Nail Your First 90 Days as a CX Director

ConversionXL

You do CX a disservice if you focus only on metrics like NPS. waterfall, agile , etc.)? waterfall, agile, etc.)? Do you need SQL skills to pull reports, or are there dashboards? agile vs. waterfall) you plan to implement, alongside how you’ll educate and increase the focus on CX throughout the business.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

If youre of the type of organization that doesnt use db access objects directly, but simply passes SQL statements through a central API, you can try this: consider the entity identifier as part of the statement itself. Nearly every SQL query I see has a join. E, How is WoW sharded? Ive noticed queues for instances lately. Expo SF (May.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

If someone comes to you with Ruby on Rails experience, do you assume they are ignorant of SQL? I learned C# and.NET (along with HTML/CSS/JS/SQL/etc) because that’s what they used. I’ll put my MVC/C#/SQL Server against your LAMP any day. March 25, 2011 at 2:27 pm. FYI It’s not April yet. Matt Sherman.

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Empowering Analysis Ninjas? 12 Signs To Identify A Data Driven Culture

Occam's Razor

They are generic mash-ups that tailor to almost no one's needs, and more often than not contain awful things like nine not-really-thought out metrics for one dimension in a report. the instinctive response of the Squirrels is to go grab the most obvious metrics and start partying. " Kisses. Angels singing! Time on Site!

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.