Spring Cleaning in
the House of Analytics
- Another approach to data
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So – what is this?
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So – what is this?
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The ant on the elephants arse
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The art of flying
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Call me - Steen
» Steen Rasmussen:
Senior partner and co-founder,
nominated as global analytics
”Practitioner of the year”
both 2014 & 2015
» IIH Nordic:
One of the largest digital specialist
agencies and the largest analytics
agency in the Nordics
”Best Danish Analytics House” 13-16
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The 4 themes for my talk
• Role of the ”web analyst”
• Decisions & recommendations
• Context
• Asking ”bigger” questions
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The key issue…
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What we are doing now is NOT wrong…
It just isn’t the complete value we can bring to the table
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Granularity
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The pie chart of wisdom
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The pie chart of wisdom
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Everybody has data… get over it
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The data WE really have…
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Why you are not…
A Web Analyst
But a
Data-driven Business Developer
A Web Analyst
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Reading data
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Data Quality – Who dares?
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Question
Q+D+A=R+I
Question+ Data+ Analysis =Recommendation +Impact
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Context
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Question
Q+D+A=R+I
Question+ Data+ Analysis =Recommendation +Impact
Context
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SEO - So how are we doing?
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SEO – How are we doing now?
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Where do you find context
HR data
Production
cost
Business goals
CRM data
Financial data
Sales data
Business
Intelligence
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7 areas for ”big” questions
1.Goals
2.Demand
3.Segmentation
4.Competitors
5.Trends
6.Performance
7.Data Quality
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An digital ”amuse-bouche”
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1. Goals
Do our website cover all
our business objectives?
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2. Demand
What products are
dropping in demand?
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3. Segmentation
Which activities seem to
be attracting most of the
unprofitable customers?
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4. Competitors
How are we doing
compared to our
competitors?
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5. Trends
Which key trends from our own data should be
considered when planning the future?
https://mark.shinyapps.io/ga-effect/
blog post: http://online-behavior.com/analytics/statistical-significance
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6. Performance
Are there any business
goals that are not realistic
according to the results of
our data?
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7. Data Quality
Are there any indicators
that show there could be
a critical problem with the
accuracy of our data?
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Combinations & mutations
1. Goals
2. Channels
3. Segmentation
4. Competitors
5. Trends
6. Performance
7. Data quality
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IDA – Insights Demand Action
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4 take aways
1. Beware of granularity
2. Data without context sucks
3. You are not a web analyst
4. To win big you need to think big
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Spring cleaning in the house of analytics - Superweek 2016