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End of Dumb Tables in Web Analytics Tools! Hello: Weighted Sort

Occam's Razor

As if massive data we have is not enough of a problem, we also rely on Averages, Percentages, Ratios and Compound/Calculated Metrics in a profoundly sub optimal way, as a drunken man uses lamp-posts – for support rather than for illumination. You saw this problem when I sorted descending or ascending for the metric bounce rate above.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

So first of all, what a testament to social media and its power to reach- Tomas Pueyo : Huge. One of my old Lean Startup sayings is that metrics are people too, and it came up in my conversation with Brian Chesky, too. I talk with people in Kenya, in Peru, in Mexico and in Bangladesh, and it is just so hard.