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by rfergie 12y ago
Have you registered your site with Google webmaster tools ( https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ )? That would be a good first step for seeing if Google are having specific trouble with anything on your site
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by rfergie 12y ago
Ha! I should have read your profile before responding.
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by rfergie 12y ago
You should look at multi-armed bandits - this approach is pretty much what you have reached in your conclusion and a lot of work has been done on them
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by rfergie 12y ago
I agree that this is a problem but I wouldn't say it is a big problem in comparison to the problem that most companies have - they don't run any tests at all. I actively need to prevent myself from going too deep into the maths an
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by rfergie 12y ago
http://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/graphs.html has some stuff and you might be able to scrape the rest. I believe 8a.nu also has some public data on this kind of thing but for a more global population
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by rfergie 12y ago
I know businesses who had to adjust when the QS algo changed but I don't know any for whom the change was dramatic enough to class as "going from boom to bust" What kind of sector/business are you thinking about?
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by rfergie 12y ago
> Tom is going to call Bob and believe his word over yours, which is morally wrong Just to be clear here - are you are saying that Tom calling Bob is morally wrong? Or that Tom believing Bob over you is morally wrong? The former makes se
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by rfergie 12y ago
Most of the SEO's I talk to would not advise paying for backlinks (directly, with cash). But most of their advice is intended for larger companies who have more invested in their website than just where it ranks in Google. So the downs
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by rfergie 12y ago
hvass has covered a list of general tips - here are some SAAS specific ones that might be really useful for HN readers. It is very important that you understand and measure your customer lifetime value. Estimate this value too low and you w
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by rfergie 12y ago
The Key - Newcastle, United Kingdon (no remote). Job title: Research and Impact Analysis The Key is a small North East charity with a big focus on using data to improve our impact. This position would suit a new graduate with an interest in
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by rfergie 12y ago
> there is genuinely nothing to like to Fix this first
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by rfergie 12y ago
> ... if you have deterministic execution ... Is deterministic execution the same as referential transparency? I think what you are saying is that you get the benefit of a functional language when you use a functional style regardless of
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by rfergie 12y ago
Can't tell if you are joking or not. The reset mechanism for an hourglass is intuitive and gives very clear feedback on whether or not the operation suceeded
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by rfergie 12y ago
The key difference for small businesses is that the fixed costs of learning and managing the system can skew these numbers. For bigger advertisers these costs are insignificant in comparison to the media bill
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by rfergie 12y ago
If you want some simple (maybe!) real world projects to test yourself on then get in touch using the email in my profile. I do some work for a charity trying to improve things using data. I have several smallish, self contained data science
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Iglu schema repository 0.1.0 released(snowplowanalytics.com)
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by rfergie 12y ago
I now agree with most of what you say - as you point out we were just looking at different parts of the same thing. Your aside comment is really interesting. I'm not sure what the solution here is - more accurate systems of measurement
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by rfergie 12y ago
I am aware of the significant attention this paper got about a year ago. In my filter bubble (and I am in a massive filter bubble with regards to this kind of thing) the attention was similar to the rest of your comment - focusing on ebays
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by rfergie 12y ago
It is very unfortunate that the extremely interesting ebay study is being ignored by the SEM community because ebay has some bad adverts. The methodology and findings should be something that advertisers look at and learn from (i.e. that tr
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by rfergie 12y ago
Where is the value created if the product is never sold?
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by rfergie 12y ago
"selling product does not equate to value creation, it equates to an exchange." I think this is the bit I don't understand. Will have a think and get back to you
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by rfergie 12y ago
I'm not sure I agree about "typically" although I certainly agree that marketing can be used in that way. Why is value much more likely to be destroyed as a result of marketing? Per unit of product I can see that this is the
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by rfergie 12y ago
Ok, let me be less vague: If business X is 5% cheaper than business Y then value for the customer is created if they go to business X rather than Y. In your example, no value is created at all if the product never sells no matter how good
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by rfergie 12y ago
There are more ways of generating value then just creating new customers. For example, if the number of customers can be the same but if they are served better or cheaper than the competition then value is created
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by rfergie 12y ago
If a business X is 5% better than business Y (for whatever reason) and marketing helps a customer go to business X rather than business Y then value is being created.
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by rfergie 12y ago
That means that, as a site owner, I would be free to engage in spam SEO. If it works, then I get rankings and traffic. If it doesn't then there is no harm to me and I can go try some new tactic
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by rfergie 12y ago
Maybe regression to the mean also explains it? Firm has a good three years so CEO pay goes up. But that performance was just random chance and the true mean (and future performance) is lower
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by rfergie 12y ago
I am a massive fan of dc.js. Crossfilter is an amazing library, but my JS-fu isn't good enough to use its power without the help from DC. An example of what I was able to do: http://www.eanalytica.com/google-analytics-c
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by rfergie 12y ago
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/215482/what-a... has a good list of the type (no pun intended) of error that type systems can prevent
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by rfergie 12y ago
I had a book called "Keys to Infinity" which was a kind of odd pop maths book. It had some code in it.

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