Tag Archives: business

Reflecting First 30 Days at Uber

Social introductions in DC usually start with “which company do you work for?” When I tell people I work for Uber, usually I’ll get a grimace or a sarcastic question—“oh, and how do you like THAT company?” It’s been a month since I joined Uber. Albeit the never-ending bad press coverage about Uber is discouraging, […]

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The Year in Review – Analytics, Measurement, and What Else?

2014 marks my one-year-milestone living and working in Washington DC and three-year-marathon doing advertising analytics for clients ranging from Fortune 500 enterprises to startup companies. What’s fascinating about analytics is two-fold: the data itself and the problems my clients look for me to solve. In short, having machine learning or regression analysis skills isn’t going […]

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The Analytics Paradox

“Analytics is a lot more important than business leaders realize, and a lot less important than analytics people believe.” My friend Bobby saw this tweet from Avinash Kaushik, the Godfather of Google Analytics, and asked about my thoughts. To be honest, my first reaction was a bit defensive though I somewhat agree with his observation. […]

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Why Shouldn’t You Only Look at Metrics

Companies have been developing reports and dashboards to perfect their business intelligence for years, but with buzz around the “Big Data,” all of a sudden everyone seems to pay way too much attention simply on metrics, reports, or dashboards to diagnose business performance. And that’s just wrong. Former business professor Aaron Levenstein once said, “Statistics […]

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This is a Teaser: Are You the Next Donald Draper?

According to eMarketer (emarketer.com), US total media ad spending next year is going to exceed $170 billion, indicating a 3% growth, while digital spend is going to increase by 14%. This is a figure that makes the online advertising industry look quite promising in the future. Don’t you think? Maybe it’s too soon for us […]

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