David Skok
SaaS Metrics 2.0
Summary · 20+ min · · Software as a service (SaaS) executives face a different set of challenges than their counterparts at more traditional enterprises and need a different set of metrics. To help subscription businesses evaluate viability, make stop-or-go decisions, and grow faster and bigger, venture capital investor and serial entrepreneur David Skok, writing on his blog forEntrepreneurs, offers a comprehensive article describing the critical metrics for subscription businesses and ways to improve them. Although long and at times complicated, Skok’s discussion ranks as a must-read for SaaS executives and investors. · Shared by 403, including Jonas Kamber, Dominik Grolimund, Ilia Markov, Greg Meyer, Philippe Gauvin, Adrian🇨🇭, Paul Sturrock, Gabriel Weinberg, Moritz Meenen, Mathias Böhm, getAbstract, Harsha Mv, Jacob Jarnvall, Data Science Renee, David Cancel, Mike Ivars, Patrik Breitenmoser 🏌️♀️, Thomas Power, Mark Kaigwa, Liza Sperling
First Round
I’m Sorry, But Those Are Vanity Metrics
15+ min · · After three decades of leading data teams at companies like LiveOps, Netscape and ReadyForce, Looker founder and CTO Lloyd Tabb's biggest learning isn’t what you would expect — or want to hear: You’re measuring the wrong metrics. We all are. · Shared by 294, including Luis Roig | @darum@indieweb.social, Mark Kaigwa, Thomas Power, Mathew Ingram, Dominik Grolimund, Startupxplore, Mike Ivars, hiten.eth, Christian P. Stobbe, Howard Getson, Yann “不停” Heurtaux ⏚ @shalf@mastodon.social, Kevan Lee 👋, Dr. Nettra Pan 👁, Weiting Chen, Fabrizio Bianchi, Steed Monteiro, Brad Engel, Ilia Markov
Harvard Business Review
Use Data to Answer Your Key Business Questions
6 min · · Activating your analytics should be a cross-team effort. · Shared by 193, including Elinor Stutz, Charles Duhigg, Carla Gentry 🎶, Terence Mills, Kevin Roberts, Fabrizio Bianchi, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Kirk Borne, davidabrock, Ronald van Loon, Bob E. Hayes, Jonathan Kogan
Forbes
State Of AI And Machine Learning In 2019
5 min · · Marketing and Sales prioritize AI and machine learning higher than any other department in enterprises today. In-memory analytics and in-database analytics are the most important to Finance,… · Shared by 155, including Marsha Collier, Ian M Calvert, Fabrizio Bianchi, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Matthias Lampe, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸, Jennifer Stirrup #MBA Topics: #AI #Data #Strategy, Thomas Telandro, Ronald van Loon, Francesco Corea, Elinor Stutz, David J. Blumberg, Yvette Dubel, Bob E. Hayes, Gil Press, Rick King, Carla Gentry 🎶, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻
ZDNET
Tableau makes Johns Hopkins Coronavirus data available for the rest of us
7 min · · Tableau takes Hopkins' Coronavirus data, preps it and makes it available to all interested parties, in dashboard, Tableau data set, Google Sheet and CSV formats. · Shared by 143, including Craig Brown, PhD, Nige Roberts-Willson, Katja Evertz, Thomas Power, Fabrizio Bianchi, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Ben Collins, Brian Solis, René Clausen Nielsen, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Ronald van Loon, Tom Connor, Bjorn Larsen
builtin.com
How to Build a Successful Data Science Workflow
19+ min · · In a less mature industry like data science, there aren’t always textbook answers to problems. When undertaking new data science projects, data scientists must consider the specificities of the… · Shared by 122, including Fabrizio Bianchi, rohit, Carla Gentry 🎶, Katja Evertz, James
medium.com
Building Analytics at 500px — Medium
20+ min · · A look at building analytics from the ground up at a mid-sized start-up and some of the challenges faced along the way · Shared by 121, including Thomas Spreng, Christian Reiter, Sandro Strebel, Luis Roig | @darum@indieweb.social, Oleg Baskov, Thomasbcn, Derek Brown, Jacob Jarnvall, Walid Ark, Philippe Gauvin, cbz, Dominik Grolimund, Daniel Lawniczak, Alex Barrera, Marc Steffen, Data Science Renee, Marcus Kuhn, Fabrizio Bianchi
David Skok
What’s your TRUE customer lifetime value (LTV)?
15+ min · · Overview The old formula that everyone uses for customer lifetime value (LTV)) –average gross profit per customer divided by churn – ceases to work properly when you have very long customer lifetim… · Shared by 94, including Dominik Grolimund, L. Taylor Banks, Jacob Jarnvall, Patrik Breitenmoser 🏌️♀️, . ., Christoph Janz 🇺🇦🎗🕊, Michelle Tandler, Atul Pradhananga, Fabrizio Bianchi, ericosiu, Vikram Dutt, Patrick Walsh, Malik El Bay 🕊🔰🇲🇦, janfsauer, dpmab
TechCrunch
Salesforce is buying data visualization company Tableau for $15.7B in all-stock deal
3 min · · On the heels of Google buying analytics startup Looker last week for $2.6 billion, Salesforce today announced a huge piece of news in a bid to step up its own work in data visualization and (more… · Shared by 86, including Purna Virji, Michael Kroker, Mara Averick, Antonio Vieira Santos, Fabrizio Bianchi, Leo Polovets, Elad Gil, William El Kaim, Kunal Bhatia, Stephanie A Kowalski, Birgit Schefer
Towards Data Science
The Best Free Resources for Learning Tableau Skills
6 min · · Maximize your learning without spending a dime · Shared by 83, including Ines Bieler, Fabrizio Bianchi, Lillian Pierson, PE 👩🎤 GTM & Growth Queen
Towards Data Science
A Recipe for Organising Data Science Projects
8 min · · Learn how to create structured and reproducible data science projects · Shared by 67, including rohit, Fabrizio Bianchi
information-age.com
Using data science to predict consumer behaviour during a pandemic
5 min · · In times of crisis such as the current pandemic, data science is ideal for predicting consumer behaviour and monitor changes · Shared by 56, including Marc R Gagné MAPP, Carla Gentry 🎶, rohit, Fabrizio Bianchi, Ronald van Loon
Tableau Public
Tableau Public
3 min · · Available for Windows and Mac | Privacy Policy Open data and explore it with Tableau Desktop Public Edition. Drag & Drop. Cre · Shared by 35, including Data Science Renee, Leo Souza Nascimento, Fabrizio Bianchi, Victor Tolosa, Mark Pitman
Content Marketing Institute
8 Business Intelligence Tools for Content Marketers With Technophobia
9 min · · Eight vetted business intelligence tools to help the technophobic content marketer – Content Marketing Institute · Shared by 24, including Jochen Burkhard, Fabrizio Bianchi, John Jantsch, Eleanor | The Copywriter
Insider Business
Salesforce expanding headquarters to Seattle following $15.7 billion Tableau acquisition
1 min · · Salesforce is expanding its footprint in Seattle following Tableau acquisition. · Shared by 20, including Fabrizio Bianchi, Liza Sperling, Thomas Power
CIO.com
What artificial intelligence means to business analysts
5 min · · Artificial intelligence is no longer a buzz word but a reality for the environments business analysts and many other analysts find themselves working with today. There’s a real need for analytical… · Shared by 19, including Dr. Craig Brown, Lillian Pierson, PE 👩🎤 GTM & Growth Queen, Bob Violino, Iain Brown, PhD, Fabrizio Bianchi