Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

Category: Data Science

  • You Ask, I Answer: Tools for Storing Valuable Information?

    You Ask, I Answer: Tools for Storing Valuable Information?

    Alessandra asks, “How do you keep/store/index all the information you read, and I am sure you read A LOT, that might be useful for future presentations/consulting/business development activities?”

    Terrific question – it depends on what the information is.

    • Photos: Google Photos. The AI is unbeatable.
    • Notes: Evernote.
    • Short ideas: Apple Reminders.
    • Mind maps: Mindnode maps of major concepts.
    • Frameworks: Powerpoint
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    In today’s episode, Alessandra asks, How do you keep store index all the information to read, and I’m sure you read a lot that might be useful for future presentations, consulting business development activities? terrific question.

    It depends on what the information is.

    So as you pointed out, there’s a lot of different information out there, there’s a lot of different types.

    So I personally use different tools for different types of information, there are some people who are really, really intent on using one place to store everything.

    And that’s fine, if you have the tools to do that.

    And you got the space to do that.

    I and I would say, it’s also important to think about what what is comfortable for you.

    So for a number of years, I I am a bunch of other folks had to sort of use Microsoft one note, because it was part of office 365, when the company was working at at the time, that was the thing and I couldn’t get into it.

    Even though people talked about how good it was, I just could not get into one note, and so never, never really made that work.

    So it depends on what you you personally feel comfortable with.

    Now, for for images, any kind of image, photos, screenshots and stuff, I use Google Photos, it has the best AI hands down for being able to automatically tag and catalog your images and then retrieve them later.

    So if you like French restaurant, you type into the search box.

    And it finds everything that it thinks is a French restaurant.

    And more often than not, it’s it’s pretty good.

    So what I think I have something close like 400,000 photos in there.

    Obviously, I’m not going to spend the time to autumn to tag and categorize that many photos.

    But if I can do that, if I can have an AI do that, absolutely going to do that for notes themselves.

    Like right down ideas.

    There’s two places for that for short form notes.

    I use apples reminders.

    And the reason I use apples reminders is that I can write down notes quickly using Siri, I could just, you know, hey, set a reminder about hierarchical ontology and SEO.

    And it’s good enough that store that little idea until later.

    For longer form stuff like writing things like what things I want to write down, I will use Evernote and store those things there.

    Or, you know, snippets of code, I store ton of code in Evernote, just a little little snaps and things read your regular expressions and such for links, like things on the web, I use pocket pocket because it again stores it into one place.

    And pockets API allows me to then get data out of pocket and bring it to somewhere else, which is a key ingredient for me for being able to curate content and reshare it in an efficient manner.

    four major concepts that I haven’t fully baked I store I built in store those in a mind mapping software, I use my node for the Mac.

    And this is where I either got an idea that I’m trying to explore.

    Or I need to be able to move things around inside of an idea.

    So like, I’m putting together a new keynote speech moving pieces and things in a way that is much more fluid than cutting and pasting or having a bullet point outline.

    I don’t work as well in those environments.

    That’s me personally, there are other people who cannot use mind maps, they hate them, and they just can’t find anything.

    That’s totally okay.

    Right? Everyone does this stuff differently for the baked goods in terms of like, this is a now a framework, this is something that I’m gonna put my company’s logo on, that all goes into PowerPoint I have, and there’s a video in the past, good backups dig it up.

    It’s called a golden cookbook.

    And it’s the idea of a golden Rolodex, right? This is all the stuff that you created over however many years you’ve been in business that you value, for example, make a marketing framework or social media framework or some kind of diagram that communicates an idea quickly and easily store those in PowerPoint.

    So it wasn’t just one one big deck and to let that deck evolve over time, keep it clean, too.

    Because if you don’t keep it clean, it gets really unwieldy very, very quickly.

    I have a whole section on the consultants in two by two matrix ease and every now and again to go in and go, Oh, this was a, you know, repetitive to the last three agencies that are in here for audio, if it’s speech, it goes in otter otter.

    ai Auto transcription of the spoken word essential, absolutely central, nothing better for for that in terms of cost and efficiency and getting and getting good output.

    And finally, for video, YouTube, again, auto transcription of videos using the auto closed captioning features.

    If you have video that you’ve captured, which is in a language other than the one that you speak, the auto is closed captions can do translation, it does not do it well.

    But it can do it enough that if you have a sense of what the person is saying already, it can help you get a little bit more context.

    It especially struggles with non Western languages or Western languages from better better outside of like the romance languages, doesn’t do a good job with us.

    I occasionally will watch like videos from the Ukraine and it’s Ukrainian to English translation is pretty bad at and partly because Ukrainian, Russian or similar languages and a miss identifies Ukrainian a lot is Russian.

    But if you want to be able to watch a video in another language and get some subtitling, YouTube is the only place to do that right now.

    So that’s where I store all my stuff.

    And that’s again subject to change.

    Things happen over time tools change I do, I store a lot of ideas in just plain text files in the markdown format, which is a variant of plain text because plain text never becomes unreadable.

    Some document formats over time, like if you go into Microsoft Word, for example, and you click the Save as button and there’s like 15 different kinds of Microsoft Word 97.

    Where do thousand word 2010s, that’s too much too risky for me, compared to good old fashioned plain text which a plain text note written in 1993 perfectly reasonable today.

    So keep that in mind to think of a long term and common easily shared formats.

    But good question.

    The better thing keep in mind is having a sort of a mental map of what stuff you’ve done and where you store it or what stuff you’ve read.

    So you do need some level of either search or categorization and I think that’s an important piece.

    Like I said, Google Photos that search obviously very good Evernote has built in search to it.

    The Mac itself has a credible search engine locally gold spotlight, a PowerPoint deck is easily searchable, YouTube is easily searchable, so having search available for your content is is important so you can go back and find things later.

    So really good question.

    Fun question.

    I would love to hear what you use because I’m again always looking to see what people are using for their stuff.

    So if you use a tool mentioned that isn’t in this list, please leave it in the comments below.

    Or feel free to put it in the analytics for marketers Slack channel because this stuff is fun.

    This is like Christmas you get to open new packages all the time and see what they do.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Comprehensive Social Media Analytics?

    You Ask, I Answer: Comprehensive Social Media Analytics?

    Beatrice asks, “Can you recommend a tool to tie social media data and surface best performing content, campaigns, ads cost, abnormalities, and ROI?”

    In a word, no – at least not in the sense of a prepackaged, off the shelf product. You’ll have to do that yourself. There’s a multistage process for doing so. Watch the video for a high-level walkthrough of the overall process.

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    In today’s episode, Beatrice asks, Can you recommend a tool to tie social media data together and surface best performing content campaigns, ad costs, abnormalities and R Y? Well, in a word, no, at least not in the sense of a pre packaged off the shelf product that will just do it for you.

    You’re gonna have to do this yourself or obviously bringing a partner to help you do it.

    But it is a doable thing.

    I’m actually working on a project like this for one of my customers, which is has taken a long time and ISA still ongoing process on.

    The reason for that is that it is.

    The question here is many part.

    There is a data science aspect.

    There’s a exploratory data analysis expects there are.

    There’ll be some requirements to use things like machine learning, and in this case, there’s a whole bunch of things going on.

    So let’s unpack this question through the lens off the data science life cycle because I think that’s a good place to start.

    Let’s brings up here the data science life cycle begins with the definition off the goals.

    And in this case, in Beatrice is question.

    If we unpack, this is actually multiple goals.

    There is a goal to surface best performing content.

    There is a goal to look at.

    Ads cost There’s a goal for for anomaly detection.

    And then there’s this goal for R O.

    Y, and they will require separate techniques in orderto pull these things apart.

    For example, our wise actually a serious of statistical mathematical computations around the pricing and cost of your advertising, detecting abnormalities and anomalies that is, ah, data science for sure, machine learning somewhat on then for best performance.

    Even though it sounds simple, there is actually a set of machine learning tools that you would use to identify what variables lied to your best outcomes so that definition parts Step one of this multi step process is an important one.

    From there you have to ingest the data.

    This is harder than it sounds, too, because every social platform has its own AP eyes.

    Many of them have restrictions on what you can extract out, and you’ll probably have to use third party data sources so if youse ah posting tool like Agora pulse.

    If you brand monitoring tools like Talk Walker and Brand twenty four, If you use competitive monitoring tools like Spread Fast and Sprinkler and sprout social and simply measured, you’re going to see all these different tools that will have repositories for your data and don’t forget, then you have to go into Google Analytics and get data.

    How There you have to go into your marketing automation system.

    Get that out of there.

    Get Do you see around? Get data out of there.

    So that’s ingesting all these different data sources and finding a way to bring them into one place so that you could do analysis on them.

    The third step is the analysis of the data itself, and this is this is analyzing the condition of the data, says not even doing the full exploratory data analysis.

    This is just what did we get? Is it in good condition? Other anomalies with things that you need to fix in the data itself? Boys.

    Your Google analytics tracking code off for two days by accident? All those things.

    The next step is to repair the data.

    Fix it up clean up any things that are need to be removed.

    Normalize it some measurements.

    If you want to be able to do effective attribution analysis, you have to do some level of normalization and converting things to a different scale so that you could do apples to apples comparison.

    So there’s a lot of that repairing and cleaning and then preparing the Dina getting it ready for you.

    For your thorough analysis.

    The next step after that is augmentation.

    You need to be able to bring in more third party data.

    So search data, for example, is incredibly powerful and important when it comes to doing social media and house because you want to know if your audience is what they’re looking for, mirrors what they’re talking about and if, if so, you can use that later on.

    So you want to bring in that augmentation.

    Now you’re finally ready to do the data exploration it took a while to get here.

    The data exploration, his one.

    You look at men’s and maxes and mediums and core tiles and the characteristics of the data said.

    What is in this thing? What? What questions is, are you capable of answering with and If you can’t answer the question, you have to go back to the start and bring in new data and repeat those initial cycles.

    After that, you do your comparisons to figure out what happened, What’s important, what’s not.

    And then your predictions.

    What are the things that we need to build a forecast forward? So when we’re talking about things that are a Y or best performing content, can we predict what content performs the best? You’ll build some hypotheses around that you will prescribed based on the data.

    So if we know that Ah, Twitter tweets on Tuesdays are important, we wantto be able to prescribe something from that.

    All this rules up into a model.

    Yeah, it can either be a machine learning Moloch or statistical data science model, whatever.

    But it has to be something that essentially is the playbook of how your data behaves, and that gives you some rules and guidelines for what to do.

    Then you validate that model and refine it.

    Hypothesis testing If tweets on Tuesdays of the thing, then was due more treats on Tuesdays and see if our numbers go up off the key that keep before it’s in case we care about go up.

    Once we’ve proven that the model actually works, we deploy it on the observe and make sure that the models continues to work in the field.

    This process, it’s a lengthy process, and it’s an expensive process.

    But if you do it right, it has multiples on your return on investment because it makes everything else you do impactful.

    But is there a tool to lose? No, not even close.

    This is to do something like this requires typically multiple tools and custom code, so you’d have a big, big database of some kind.

    I personally use Google big query a lot for for stuff like this, there’s a programming language that sits on top of it.

    I use program in which our other people will recommend things like Python.

    You can use tools like IBM Watson Studio to help with some of this, especially.

    You wantto have a continuous production model, but that it gets even more expensive and you want to do this is a proof of concept.

    First, to make sure there’s that they’re there, and you can answer these questions before you drop a couple million dollars on a system and then you roll this out and you have it in production and have systems and software monitoring your model to make sure it’s working.

    So process wise, you would would build a proof of concept, proved that there’s there.

    They’re up level into production, deploy it and then and then monitoring not ongoing basis.

    It’s again.

    It’s not easy.

    It’s not fast and there is absolutely nothing off the shelf that we’ll do this.

    Beware of any vendor that makes the bold claim that they can do any of these things together.

    You can have individual point solutions that can help you with little things like you know what content had the most engagements.

    But that is only in a tiny silo.

    It is not a comprehensive picture of all the activities that you do have all the data you have access to.

    Oh, the tools could help you with ad cost.

    Of course, that’s fine.

    If you’re if you’re trying to confine your study just to that little piece of data.

    But if you want the big picture, this is the process you have to do.

    Ah, it’s a lot.

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  • Fun Fact Friday: Social Influencer Benchmarks

    Fun Fact Friday: Social Influencer Benchmarks

    In today’s episode, I take you behind the scenes for what went into the Trust Insights 2019 Social Media Influencer Benchmark report. Learn why we chose the measures we did, what surprises we found along the way, and how the report could save you a whole bunch of money on influencer marketing. Watch the video, then get your copy of the report here.

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    In today’s episode a bit of behind the scenes on the new trustee and sites 2019 social media influencer benchmarks report would you can get trust insights.ai slash influencer benchmark this report is something that originally was actually going to be just a initially it’s just like a single infographic but then as start pulling the data to get this like wow this is a little bit more than just a one page infographic although certainly can have

    the top line results so some behind the scenes about how we put this thing together This is a really fantastic service from Facebook they bought a company a number years ago called crowd tangled which is available for free but only to academics, researchers and journalists and anybody who was grandfathered in from the from when it was a separate company that was a paid service and we

    What’s amazing about crowd tangle is that it allows you to gather up lists of accounts or they provide pre made lists of essentially influencers of wall of any public account on facebook twitter instagram and read it and we took the top influencer lists from Facebook Twitter and Instagram because those are the sort of the Big Three that people tend to use a lot these days and pulled a set day by day because there’s so many posts day by day everything that those influencers were posting this is about 50,000 influencers on each network so hundred 50,000 total all of those decent amount of overlap particularly between Twitter and Instagram this

    like I forget exactly how much but it’s it’s the majority isn’t isn’t overlap

    and extracted out 4 million posts per network

    and put it all together in this massive database and then

    From the database, we used the our programming language didn’t have to do a whole lot of machine learning really any I mean nothing that you would classify as like high end machine learning. Because a lot of what’s in a lot of what’s in the benchmark is statistical in nature. It’s not something that requires advanced computation, looking at things like means and medians and modes and stuff. And basic stats is stuff that are as a programming language does have a box really brilliantly so not much in the way of machine learning, but a lot of statistical analysis. So what were some of the things that we found

    let’s bring this up here. I mean, I call it up it’s easier to see the graphic

    the

    the Instagram top to your audience. So one of the things we did was to divide the audience into decimals which is like a core Tyler quintile, but decibel meaning 10 so take every large audience and divided into 10 pieces of the top 10% to the bottom 10%

    and we had to look at what

    Was that top tier the people that everyone’s always looking at, like the mega influencers? How big are those audiences? And one of the thing that’s funny about social media marketing in general, but social media specific as you have to use mediums a lot, because what happens is

    it’s sort of like a Pareto principle at 20, right? Where there’s a few influences the very high end who like ginormous Lee famous, and then there’s a whole bunch of people who aren’t. And if you use an average, those outliers at the very top end skew everything and it makes it makes the data unreliable. Like for example, if five people were sitting in a room of the five normal people single and Bill Gates was in the room,

    or Jeff Bezos was in the room. The average salary would be something like half a billion dollars, but only one of the people in that room was a multi billionaire. And so you have to use the medium and a lot of cases for social media data. So I was surprised to find the Instagrams the medium.

    Top to your audience for those people in the top 10% about 5 million people, whereas for Twitter and Facebook is about 8 million people so Instagram, even though it is the the influence of platform does your

    deal isn’t the people the top and don’t have, you know as as large an audience as they do on those other two networks that are arguably more mature older, but Instagram’s engagement rate is

    literally 70 times better than Facebook’s, and something like 100 times better than a little bit less than 100 times better than Twitter’s. So if you’re looking for

    where to spend your time getting influencers if your audience is on Instagram, Instagram is the place the engagement rates are fantastic and this is a really important clarification about the support. These are the benchmarks across the audiences. We did not segment down into specific industries and verticals or niches or even in the

    Inside your micro audience, because,

    well, frankly, that’s be like 5000 page report, no one read it, but

    your mileage will vary, right? Unless you are rock, right? Or unless you are

    a Kardashian or Warren Buffett or whatever you’ll be able to talk to your influencers you’re going to get different results. And one of the interesting things I found in the report was that when we were putting it together

    micro influence is this idea of people who are not like super mega famous but have maybe one or five or 10,000 followers actually get much higher engagement rate says Dave Cutler calls that the law of diminishing influencer returns but if you are working on building up your company’s following and your audience and your community emphasis on community,

    you don’t need big numbers to get good engagement rates and to be able to be seen by the algorithms and

    For the love of all that’s holy in whatever you profess, do not buy followers do not buy audiences because it just damages your engagement rates like crazy. So please don’t do that. And if you have, do that, maybe unfollow those people or something like that.

    So there’s a lot to unpack in the support. How you should use it is you want to use it in three ways. You want to use it to calibrate your strategies, or as to which platform to be on remembering that your mileage will vary. You want to use this to set expectations with if you’re going to be paying money to an influencer, you want to have an idea of where they stand in terms of because one of the pages in here we actually show by tier so if you’re buying somebody who’s got, you know, a half million influence audience members, then their engagement rate for that should be close to 1% on Instagram, right? So if you if you buy in and you get like one 10th of 1%, then you know that that influence was not up to scratch you can all

    Also use social media monitoring tools or

    you know social social intelligence tools to figure out is is that person worth buying so now you can evaluate the influence of before you spend money and say like wow you’re really below the benchmark for an audience your size so why should I pay you you know $40,000 if your your individual data is is so far below the median and you can use it to benchmark your own efforts right if you got a couple thousand followers on Instagram check out your engagement rates and say hey actually we’re not doing so bad so there’s a lot to unpack in the report it is free you can get it at trust insights AI slash influencer benchmark I hope you enjoy it find it useful and can and can make some good decisions with your influencer marketing with it so go pick up your copy today and thanks for watching as always, and please subscribe to the YouTube channel on the newsletter take care want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trusted insights.ai

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Analytics and Social Media Marketing Strategy

    You Ask, I Answer: Analytics and Social Media Marketing Strategy

    Sherry asks, “How do you use analytics to set marketing strategy, especially for social media marketing?”

    While this is a very broad question, we can use our AI-Powered Social Media Marketing Process as the starting point for discussing the use of analytics in setting, informing, and executing strategy. Watch the video for a walkthrough.

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    In today’s episode, Sherry asks, How do you use analytics to set marketing strategy, especially for social media marketing? This is a really broad question. But we can use analytics to inform, to set and to execute the strategies in marketing and and and social media, as long as we have a strategy or a plan or a framework to work from analytics is data and the analysis of what happened. And so if you’re starting from net new then obviously going to have a real hard time creating something from essentially nothing right from just a bunch of data points. You can use it to you can use analytics to to build on on your strategy, but it’s very hard to create a strategy from data itself in the same way that it’s very hard to build a recipe just from ingredients, you should generally have the

    The idea of what you want to make first and then see, okay, what ingredients do I have? Can I substitute things? The grandma told me some things out of the things definitely about critical. That’s how you should approach this kind of question is what recipes? Do you know how to cook? And then do you have the ingredients necessary. So let’s look at at one recipe. I’m going to bring this up here. This is the AI powered social media marketing processes is something that I do for trust and sites, customers, and something that that you can do as well, as long as you have access to the technology. And it is a 10 step process for using artificial intelligence, machine learning and data to build a really comprehensive marketing strategy around social media. So the first step when the the step, I think probably Sherry’s alluded to most is that inventory step are we do have a good catalog of existing content, existing data, existing analytics and metrics, what do you have to do this is stuff that you have

    in good condition, what does it tell you? What happened, what worked, what didn’t work and so on and so forth. And that’s the basis the starting point we in data sciences is called exploratory data analysis What do you have? Is it is it any good What does it tell you the next step is based on you identifying the things that worked you would then take for example if you’re doing social media marketing and you isolate the top 10% of know Instagram posts in your industry enrich that extract out the the general content the topics too broad lists ideas to terms to phrases to keywords to images, two themes and figure out how to extend that so if the top 10% of Instagram posts you know 90% of those are like pictures of cats okay this is all cat so it’s just house cats is a certain color cat. You want to get a broad idea after that you would use

    artificial intelligence actually wouldn’t even use it at this point. This point you’d be using

    Research Tools to determine things like search volume. So things like Google Trends or sem rush or at our reps or spy food

    to determine broad volumes that you use services like talk Walker and ran 24 and and all the media monitoring tools to help understand

    what are the broad big discussion points and use those tools to determine the competitive landscape as well who’s talking about these things? How are they talking about them from those you would you would select the things that you think you can credibly address so if you know nothing about cats, guess what you have to discard that 10 that top 10% of those cats posts and and you know about dogs, find the dog post, select them and then start to enrich that and this is where you would take all the social posts about dogs are all that were high performing, or all of the articles about coffee or SAS based software or server appliances or whatever the case may be and you would use

    You would use media results. So articles, blog posts, Reddit posts, Facebook posts, you name it, and extract out a language model, a topic model of those things. So let’s bring up an example here. This is from

    a conference called shop talk, which is a retail conference. And we’re running in an assessment of the right now. And what we can see in shop talks data is things like digital transformation, digital natives and things. These are these give us ideas and starting points to then go and do the opposite of that broadening. Now, we want to narrow down so we would take something like digital natives feed it into our SEO tool and get 5100 200 300 500,000

    search terms related to that. The next step in the process is to use predictive analytics to forecast Okay, when will each of those thousand terms be at its most popular which ones are going to be popular on an ongoing basis?

    What weeks of the year with those things

    be powerful there’s a example I’ll put a link in the notes to our cheese OF THE WEEK forecast which uses a lot of this technology to innovate frivolous fun way to say like this is when the this the most popular cheese will be but use predictive analytics to guide your social calendar to guide your execution strategy to say this is when we’re going to talk about these things we’re going to create video content about digital natives we’re going to create interviews about digital natives and we’re going to have YouTube videos up about digital natives and we’re going to time it so that when people search for digital natives the most and the next year our content is waiting for them they’re they’re ready for them

    after that you like I said you build the content you constructed and then you have to go out and and from all those conversations you just had find your key opinion leaders your influencers based on those topics. So this is another example this is the the shop talk one and we use network graphic technology to figure out who are the people who are being talked about the most when

    comes to this particular conference. Now, you would also do this for things like that your big topics like digital natives, or new age of retail, or whatever the thing is, but this is the distill phrase, the phase where you are identifying those people. And then if your content is good, then you do your outreach to those people at using the predictive calendar. So it’s at the time that those people should be most interested in your topics.

    So it’s influencer marketing. But with instead of just kind of being scattershot and haphazard, using the data using your analytics to say this is when I should approach this person about this thing because this relevant to the industry and then you just repeat the cycle over and over again for each of the topics each of the areas of expertise, each domain knowledge area of domain knowledge that you have to do until you get the results that you want or or or you find out that maybe the area that you’re creating.

    content and doing outreach and isn’t generating interest, right? So if you are

    if you are a coffee shop and you’re trying to reach out about coffee influences about your coffee shop, and it turns out that that may not be the reason people go to coffee shops, then you would have to switch over to doing pure market research and figure out why if we’re reaching out about coffee and people like coffee, and we’re a coffee shop and we’ve got coffee influencers. Why are we not getting results. Now, it could be your pitches bad, but assume it’s not. It could turn out that people go to coffee shops for reasons other than the coffee Starbucks calls that third space, but whatever you call it, you have to do market research and then restart the cycle again, so that you can build new content, identify new influencers and so on and so forth. So that’s a very cursory way to use the analytics and data that you have and build strategy from it. enrichment validation selection, extraction prediction construction Association

    distillation and outreach as a process, it takes time and it takes some technology to do it. But if you do it well, you will, on average get much better results than someone just guessing and hoping to get lucky because you’re using the data that customers and your audience are already creating and giving to you on a silver platter for your for your social media and content marketing strategy. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter and talk to you soon want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Tracking Retention with Google Analytics Cohort Analysis

    You Ask, I Answer: Tracking Retention with Google Analytics Cohort Analysis

    Will asks, “I want to track people from a specific event and see how many return after the event is over. How do I do this?”

    This question has two parts to the answer. The first is appropriate tagging; without correct UTM tags, you won’t be able to track anything. If you’re using ads, you have the opportunity to set codes for every individual ad. Check this blog post and video for a breakdown of UTM tagging.

    The second part of the answer uses Google Analytics Cohort Analysis. Watch today’s video for a walkthrough of Cohort Analysis.

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    In today’s episode, we’ll ask I want to attract people from a specific event. And the ads I’ve run and see how many return after the event is over. How do you do this? So this question has two parts to the answer. The first part is that you need to have tagged correctly, those people with UTM tags in the ads themselves if you’re using those ads set individual codes per ad, there’s a video that I did a blog post from back in January called best practices for Google Analytics UTM tracking codes that goes through how to set these and there’s also a spreadsheet that is involved as well if you want to keep consistent tagging, but that’s the first part of the answer is you need to have an audience specifically tagged with certain UTM tags so that you can isolate them. So let’s go ahead I’m going to go into my Google Analytics here and I’m gonna actually set up a custom segment.

    For an audience for a very specific audience, so let’s go ahead and call this almost timely. And this,

    I’m going to save that I’m going to go to Advanced conditions. And I want you’ll notice all the different things like campaign or in here, content, add content, which is UTM code keyword. If you use the UTM term for this, I’m going to do a source because I use my newsletter, it has the source of almost timely, right. But again, if you had an ad specific campaign to just choose campaign, or term or content, depending on what it was that you were doing. So this is my segment that I want to keep track of. No, no, that’s 2.74% of my users. And let’s go ahead and choose from January onwards. You can obviously do this for when the event occurred, and then after the event. And now the second part of the answer is Google Analytics has what is called cohort analysis. This is taking a look at a group of people and seeing how that group change.

    changes over time. So let’s click on cohort analysis.

    And we are on track by acquisition date. If the event was like this week, you’d use by day, otherwise could do by week or by month. I’m going to do by week here. And retention is one of the metric. You can also track goals. How much conversion to do get out of this, how many page views in this case retention as a metric of returning users. How many people returned during this time period, and we’re going to look at the last six weeks

    and what you can see as for people who enrolled in this audience, the week of January 20, the 26th some pretend that was the event week.

    The first week after that event over the first week was 94% of the users within this cohort were in that week. Zero that that week, the second week, 2.67% return. So that second week, so the week after January 26 was January 27 for this week’s audience. 6.67% returned after we three 4%

    After week for zero, week five, 1% week six zero. So the people who joined my newsletter this week in January here kind of fell off after the third week. So that was that’s indicated that the people who joined my audience that we were not great, right in the sense of they were not super loyal. If we look down here, the week of January 27, 8.5%

    people returned after week one 1.43 2.86 2.86

    so they got to four weeks out before they stopped returning based on the newsletter they got about four weeks of content out of the newsletter before they kind of fell off. Now we can obviously change this range to be up to 12 weeks or you can do by month as well. So let’s go ahead and do by month here.

    So let’s do by 12 weeks here. So now looking out 12 weeks.

    Let’s go back to that same week, January twice 20th to the 26 you can see here there’s really a decade

    And that week, that was not that was not a great week. If we look back and look out here, the people who join my newsletter the weeks of December 16 of December 22 or December, 20 seconds, December 29 there 10 weeks out there, still loyal they’re still at 2% here I’ve retained those folks so something whoever joined the list that week those people are sticking around, they’re sticking through there. They are loyal to this campaign code.

    If you were doing this for your event, you would do exactly the same thing what week was the event and then track the loyalty of that cohort that specific group of users like seven users or however many were in your campaign over time to see how they indicate now we’re This is gets really interesting is if you have that audience tagged very clearly. And then let’s put it in a different audience here. I’m going to use let’s use my Twitter so let’s use my Twitter audience.

    Organic Twitter audience I want to exclude Pay Per Click traffic here.

    And just for clarity sake, I’m gonna switch this back to six weeks. Otherwise the screen gets really hard to read.

    And now we can compare side by side, the newsletter audience versus the Twitter audience. So what we see here is, once you get out to week five, there’s still are some users within my newsletter audience, they’re coming back, but I lose all of my Twitter audience after that, that week five, and we also see the numbers 8%, 6%, 9%

    versus 1231.

    My Twitter audience is not as loyal and I can keep fewer of them then I do my newsletter, but it’s also a smaller audience. If you look at newsletter audience, 538 users, Twitter audience 369 users. So

    remember that the whole point of analytics and metrics the whole way to get value out of these things is to compare and contrast to compare and a metric to something else. So if you’re

    event was that week and this is your ad group event. And then maybe this is your social media group for the event, which audience was the better quality audience was at the ad group? Or was that the the Twitter group. Now, one thing you want to do is make sure that you have exclusion setup, so that you’re not double dipping. Somebody who is in your ad group and you know, organic social group, you have to decide which group you want that person to end up in by excluding the other in the in the segment settings. So we saw that I had a segment setting in there for eliminating PPC. So CBC PPC, anything with those codes, I want out of this or Twitter organic audience so that I’m not double dipping on paid versus unpaid Twitter users. So that’s how you do this. The easiest way to report on this is simply to take a screenshot then, and just sort of highlight like this is the audience and this is compared to another audience. And remember, because it’s controlled by Google Analytics segments. You can have up to four audiences side by side here. You can compare them over time.

    Let’s see how did this unit this this group of users do overtime for from a loyalty perspective. Now

    this also compares to people who are in other weeks around that that event. If you just want to look at the decay of that audience overall

    and you don’t want to do the cohort reporting, then the easiest way to do that would actually just be to look at new versus returning users.

    That’s a knockout Twitter we don’t need to compare on this and take that that campaign group and look at the new versus returning over time and what percentage comes back over time. You can also if you wanted to just report on the sheer traffic from that segment only you would do source contains or campaign if you’re if it’s an ad campaign and

    user

    user type contains returning

    visitor and that will only show the people who are in this campaign and who have come back to the website. So my save that you notice it was 2.73. Now it’s point seven, two. So I’ve lost about what,

    three quarters of that audience now you can track just that audience over time and apply that that segment to any of the tracking metrics acquisition behavior and stuff within Google Analytics to see like, what content does that group of people view versus you could add that segment back end for organic Twitter to compare and contrast but this would be how you would track those people just those people who have returned from the ads even running. So a great use case the cohort analysis is really super it’s an easy way to visualize the performance of an audience versus other audiences or other other groups in a campaign if you want to just drill into that that segment that cohort itself make sure that you have

    The campaign tag and the returning visitor tag setup in your segment and then you can compare and contrast and use Google Analytics just with that segment over time. So great question. Well if you have additional questions, please leave them in the comments. Otherwise, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter will talk to you soon. One help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. This is trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Spotting Trends in Analytics?

    You Ask, I Answer: Spotting Trends in Analytics?

    Julie asks, “What trends should I be looking for in my analytics?”

    The answer to this question is going to require some math, so pour a coffee and let’s tuck in. In this video we’ll review simple and exponential moving averages, the moving average convergence divergence indicator, and the application of the stock alerting technique known as Bollinger Bands to spot serious anomalies in your analytics data and take action immediately when you spot a trend that’s going the wrong way.

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    In today’s episode Julie asked the question what trends should I be looking for in my analytics? Ah trend spotting trend spotting is a lot of fun because it gives you the ability to take your data and extract meaning from an on a relatively rapid basis meaning that you can quickly look at the data and go up there’s something here This one’s gonna pay attention to now the answer to this question is going to require some math so if you if you’re uncomfortable with math pour yourself a coffee

    and let’s talk in we’re going to review for techniques to do some trend spotting and I’m going to be using the programming language are you can do this in Excel. I personally don’t know how to because I’m not as good as Excel as I am at programming. But check out the

    videos of folks like I was just so like to see that. So let’s dig into the code and what it does.

    And I’m good well, actually not was to do the code one. So we’re going to use for different types of averages. So let’s start with our Google Analytics data, right? So this is my websites, data from the last 60 days, give or take, and we see that you know, stuff is a little slow on the holidays and then things are picked up. Now, by itself. This data is too volatile to be able to spot them, you can kind of eyeball something, but you never want to eyeball data. You always want to try and get a sense of what’s actually going on. So let’s look at applying a seven day moving average moving averages nothing more then being able to take a consistent window of time in this case, seven days and doing the mathematical some of the previous seven days traffic. And then as each day moves with a new day up front, you chop off the day on the back end.

    changes. And that’s what this blue line here represents. It represents a seven day moving average. And you can see as traffic goes down in during the holidays, and then as traffic starts to go up, the moving average starts to go up, and so on, so forth. So this is a way to smooth out data a little bit and spot a trend. It’s much easier to see and it’s much more correct. Now we’ll see that the moving average around January one was about 300 visitors per day. And then by the time we get to January 15, I’m about 450 visitors a day. And now here in in mid to late February. I’m around 500 visitors a day. So if you can spot a trend here that we’re going in the in the general right direction. Now the moving average the simple moving averages, good for smoothing things out, but it is it can be a little too simplistic. And if you’re trying to spot anomalies and trends in your analytics for the purposes of doing something you may want to look at what’s called an exponential moving average.

    This is the same idea. But then you add a weight awaiting factor to it to say like I want to count the influence less three days more than the weight of the, the previous four days before that. So in a seven day average what’s happened more recently, I want that to count for more because I want to be able to respond to trends quicker. And so we see here the the exponential moving average, you can see there’s, there’s a bit more up and down. And this is reflective of the fact that, you know, there are things like weekends and things just like just as we saw in the previous one, there’s it that’s smoother. This is more, you know, following the lines and curves of the actual data, but

    it’s a little bit fast. If you look in the previous example here, there was that big spike and then it really only started to show up here, right, this is a big spike and then within a day that shows up my exponential moving average.

    I’m looking day over day I’m checking on my analytics and saying home I my is my traffic from my conversions up, the exponential moving average might tell me a little sooner, hey, you need to do something, hey, things are down and things are up. Now there’s some logical things need to apply here. Obviously when it drops precipitously my site is largely a b2b audience. And so the weekends are always going to be a bit of a downer, same for holidays.

    Now

    this is a good indicator good trend like things again, going in the general right direction. My exponential moving average on the first was 300 and here we are in mid February and around 525 or so. So still being able to spot the trend and get a sense of where we are

    Let’s add another average to this will add what’s called the 28 day moving average. And now of course, instead of

    just a seven day window, we also add a 28 day window for last four weeks. By the way, you always want us 28 days not 30 because the

    Week structure, right? The someone’s have 30 days someone’s have 31 days someone’s have 28 days as occasionally 29 days and by using a 28 day moving average you’re saying that I’m averaging from four weeks ago on the calendar so Saturday to Saturday if you do 30 days sometimes it can be a Saturday or Sunday if your b2b and it totally hosed your your analysis.

    So in this case 28th day moving average really smooths down so I’ve got my exponential green one. But this is my seventh day I got my 28 day one which is the red one here and that what’s interesting to think about is when your short term average your seven day average is above your 28 day average means your site’s growing. It’s going in the right direction or the other hand when you’re 70 which goes below your 28 day average this kind of it means that you’re kind of taking a dip right you’re kind of taking a drop in traffic you’re decides not growing as fast so we can see this again generally speaking a bad practice to eyeball but we

    can see that over time in this period of time here, the seven this last seven days is not as good as this previous 28 days here, I have more bigger spikes here. And so that the red line reflects that when you’re green line, or in this case of 78, which goes below the red line, the site is contracting our Analytics tracking. So this was Facebook data, you say our Facebook views are reaches contracting. And that’s a bad thing. That’s when when when this does this, like it’s time to crank up the ads a little bit, or send some email or tweet about it or publish new content, whatever you do to get you the numbers you want, you would do at this period of time, because that’s kind of an emergency saying like, hey, hit the panic button. This is what we call a a, it’s called a moving average convergence divergence indicator. And that basically means it’s the difference between those two. So whenever this indicator is above zero, things are going good was below zero.

    Do something hit hit hit some ads do something to get that back in place. We can see here just a few days ago, it was a below zero point. And if we look in the actual chart, there was a pretty substantial below zero point right here. So that was if we were running this analysis on a on a daily basis, that’d be a time to hit the button. Okay, let’s let’s, let’s crank it up our spend

    the last one last transplanting tool is called clinical bollinger bands. And this is a technique from the stock market. These are all stock market techniques. But this is one where you’re looking at you’re moving average and trying to figure out if it does ever go beyond two standard deviations from the average and in the at the upper averages. The red lower average is this red here. If this blue line crosses one of those, something really weird has happened. Maybe you got a big hit on

    CNN or something like that. Or maybe your website’s tracking codes stopped working, whatever the case may be, if you are running this analysis.

    You see that blue line touch one of these bands. It’s, that’s that’s the real panic button. That’s when you really have to look hard at what’s going on and what’s going either wrong or very, very right and double down on it. So

    these four techniques, simple moving, average exponential moving, average moving average convergence divergence indicator and bollinger bands are ways to spot trends in your analytics data. And it can be applied to any data for which is in a time series format. So Facebook analytics YouTube views number of people who physically walked in your store that day if you’ve got the data and it’s ordered by time you can use these techniques to spot anomalies, to spot trends and most importantly, to take action if you know what fuels the indicator and you know what you need to do to get indicated going in the right direction. Use these techniques to get those answers a great question Julie. As always, please subscribe to youtube channel and the newsletter I’ll talk to you soon want help solving your company’s data.

    And digital marketing problems. This is a trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you.

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  • IBM THINK 2019 Wrapup Review

    IBM THINK 2019 Wrapup Review: What Happened

    I’m back from IBM THINK 2019. Let’s look at the major highlights from a marketing and AI perspective.

    Key announcements:
    – Watson Anywhere
    – Watson OpenScale
    – Project Debater (and its implications)
    – Watson AutoAI

    What does it all mean for you? What will you realistically be able to use in the next year?

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    In today’s episode, we’re recapping all of the major announcements. IBM think 2019 at least the ones that certainly caught my eye and I think will have an impact on what you’re doing with artificial intelligence and machine learning within the realm of marketing so let’s go through the big announcements first and then their implications number one was Watson anywhere virtualization of the Watson API’s so that you can use them with any machine learning or any data set regardless of the environment it’s in including other people’s clouds. If you I think this is an announcement that is useful if you are doing work and you need access to some of the Watson specific API’s, especially some of the ones like visual recognition.

    The natural language understanding and so on and so forth. So useful stuff there. It does open the door, I believe, to using Watson studio as well to be able to wrangle other people’s eyes. And that that is a very, very helpful thing because the studio environment, there’s one of which is it’s a, it’s a relatively low code environment. So there’s some opportunities there. The second of course, was Watson open scale if you talked about a couple episodes back and what it means for being able to tune models and fix them identify when the going off the rails and especially with regard to bias the third was project debater which was their artificial intelligence that debated a human and didn’t do as well as I think people expected it to but still did some pretty amazing stuff and forth was open AI. I was like auto AI auto AI allows you to load the data set and Watson will do its best to create and choose algorithms and

    fix things and have all of these technologies. I think there are some some immediate takeaways. Number one open skill for reducing bias is going to be really important, especially for being able to identify bias when you didn’t plan for it a front end the data set, that’s a big deal because a lot of folks in machine learning and AI today are deploying models without necessarily taking into account all the different ways that your data sets can be biased. So having open API be able to raise it and say, Hey, something’s wrong here is a very powerful option I think will help for to reduce unfairness in artificial intelligence. And I like that about the way IBM is approaching AI. This concept of trusted AI that we will never reap the full benefits of artificial intelligence if we don’t trust the machines to make fair unbiased decisions.

    This is something that played into a discussion I had with the lead engineer for project debater when I had a chance to

    Talk with her. She was saying there’s underneath the hood. There’s a 300 million document corpus and 10 different API’s all essentially doing different things and blending their results together. Which explains why it was able to listen, synthesize speech to text, or do a document corporate search and then create natural language back within four minutes. It’s got a lot of hardware and software running on a hood. But one of those 10 guys is responsible for ethics and and rule enforcement. That is saying there are certain rules that it has to follow certain things that it may not do.

    And I have some hesitation about that, not because I don’t trust the rules that they put in place because IBM did a laudable job and making sure those rules and those thresholds are set high. But again, when companies and private enterprises and individuals who who have those capabilities are working with these technologies, they may not necessarily

    put the same

    level of diligence into their ethics modules that an IBM would or the very worst case would be where someone takes the technology and gives it a very different set of ethics rules. Can you imagine, for example, a

    heavy manufacturing company using the technology to to synthesize great natural sounding debate, but saying we’re going to completely discount any articles in the corpus that are about the environmental impact of this type of manufacturing technology so we can create true natural language that sounds great. That sounds logical and well reasoned, but intentionally biased.

    And I think there’s a there is an opportunity to have the discussion now and may have enforcement later where companies like IBM that sell artificial intelligence technology, particularly if it’s an off the shelf solution like that,

    in addition to having to do things like export controls and other forms of compliance, they may have to do an ethics

    You have a company and may I would hope have situations they say Nope, you can’t buy this, you your ethics track record or your your stated policies do not align with what we want our technology being useful because it can very much be used as an information weapon. So some bots, some this, there’s more to unpack there. But for the most part, it was a really cool technology test. It was a really good example what A is capable of and highlights the fact that

    who is ultimately responsible for the output of AI is a human being or a set of human beings and we have to as consumers, and as business owners constantly be asking, How can this be used in appropriately or illegally or to disadvantage a certain group of people.

    So let’s go back to auto AI all the way I is, again, you take a data set like you export all your Google Analytics data and you pour it

    into the auto AI system, and it will start to process it do feature engineering and do a lot of the the upfront stuff that a data scientists will have to do today.

    And then start to help you understand how to model the data set

    and how to create machine learning algorithms that will help you make better use of the data. So you put all your Google Analytics, you say, conversions is what I care about. And it will go through and process and come up with a model actually come up with several models of things that it thinks are optimized for conversion. So set of time on page is really important. So you should focus on that

    this is a very powerful tool. I think it will be a great time saver for data scientists and for machine learning specialist. I’m not convinced that it will still help people who are not good at technology or math. I think it’s still too advanced for someone who’s like I don’t want to touch and I just want to hit export and have magic happen that’s none of these tools that are on the

    market or coming to market will are going to be magic. They are still deeply rooted in you have to do some upfront work. But that said, for people who have a technical aptitude, even if you don’t have any formal training, we have a technical technical aptitude and you’re able to to squeeze the most out of things like Google Analytics or Google Data Studio without

    formal training, something like auto way I could be the thing that tips them over into being able to do machine learning credibly. And well, one of the important things that I think is going to be so critical to to auto AI success is it’s bias detection. It has the same bias detection tools is open scale, and also as the as the was a 360 product

    AI fairness 360. Sorry,

    in that it can detect biases in your data as it builds a model and either compensate them for them automatically, or spit back and ask you Hey, this looks like a protected class. Do you want to

    In fact, protect the outcomes that will be greatly helpful, I think to, again, the cause of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Because if someone who doesn’t have a strong background in data science and machine learning is building a model, but the system knows enough to look for biases, the model they will out should be more fair than if they were to try and do it themselves with some of the other automatic model selector tools out there that may not know to look at something like age or gender or ethnicity and say, Nope, those are protected classes. We cannot use him for modeling and we even want to have specific outcomes maps. So if it’s gender, the generally speaking should be a 5050 split, whether it’s in sample size or an outcome, the privileged class in the non privileged class should have the same general outcome. So although I has a lot of potential I’m looking forward to trying it out in the beta and we’ll have more to share when when I can actually get my hands on it and play around with it. But overall, there’s some

    Really, really good stuff coming out of IBM from think 2019 when it comes to the application of machine learning to the world. And

    I think they’re probably one of the few companies that’s giving serious thought and implementation to the ethics and the mitigation of bias with an artificial intelligence is if there was one core thing that that came out of the week and all the different products it is that they’re thinking about how to keep the technology from being misused and putting it into the product

    which is a major step forward. So a good show a lot of fun look forward to putting the technology to use and and sharing more as we have it. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter I’ll talk to you soon

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  • IBM THINK 2019 Day 3 Recap: Reducing Bias with IBM

    IBM THINK 2019 Day 3 Recap: Reducing Bias with IBM

    In today’s IBM THINK 2019 Day 3 Recap, we look at the problem of bias in AI and machine learning, the three locations in the development process where bias can creep in, and how IBM helps us mitigate bias with two key products, Fairness 360 and IBM Watson OpenScale.

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    In today’s episode recapping day three at IBM think two major things that really stood out from the day there was a ton of good stuff. One of the things I really enjoy about this show is being able to walk up to people who are senior or master level data scientists and machine learning experts and ask them questions like, Hey, can you take a look at this code that I’m working on and have them go, Oh, that’s how I do that. And then get productive feedback about ways you can improve your own code. So that was that’s been a lot of fun. But there were two initiatives that I thought were super important. One is called fairness 360, and one is called Watson open scale

    when it comes to bias in our data. We’ve talked a lot about this. You’ve heard a lot about this

    in the news in major stories about companies big companies like Amazon.

    getting in trouble for having bias status of bias AI

    causing problems and hiring and discriminating in certain groups. And a story I tell it from one of my keynote talks is Police Department trying to predict recidivism and failing miserably at it because of bias.

    There are three places that bias can exist in the path towards AI. You can have bias in the data where as you’re collecting the data itself is biased

    and that it wasn’t collected properly. There was data missing or in many cases there are problems in the population data itself. Example I said often is African American healthcare data is inherently biased and flawed because

    of systemic discrimination within the society itself. So that’s one place bias can occur. Second place bias can occur is in the model creation when you’re creating an

    I’m model which means that the software is taking the data and learning from it.

    The software can create biases,

    simple example against what we’re hiring example. Even if you say I don’t want to use gender or age, if you had things like someone’s Facebook movies that they like, and books and music they listen to, you can infer a with a high degree of accuracy a person’s age, and gender, and, and even ethnicity.

    And so you can create a model that has bias in it.

    And then the third place that a bias can occur is even if you’ve done a good job with the data, you’ve done a good job with

    creating the model. The third place it can occur is in production when you deploy the model and then new data starts coming in. Because you’ve trained you’ve you’ve built it, trained it and now it’s now it’s in production bias can happen after the model has been deployed.

    Because you can get unforeseen data or unusual data that you didn’t expect to get the classic example. This is when Microsoft released its tail, Twitter bot, and people fed it new, highly corrupted data from the perspective of the things you’d want to talk to a robot about, and turn into a racist, pornographic, but in 24 hours, thank you, Mandy.

    And so these are the sort of the three places bias can occur. Now,

    mitigating bias means taking all three places and trying to put safeguards in place for them. So truly announcements that IBM made at the show and have deployed product for that that was really interesting. One is called fairness 360. This is an open source, totally free set of 10 Python libraries or Python algorithms that you apply to the data side and it will look at your data and say there are problems in the data there are populations that are underrepresented.

    You specify like, I want to make sure that

    say we’re doing we’re doing a test on gender, it will look at and say, Hey, I think that this there’s an issue here

    gender is under represented by this or or races under represented by this, you would specify protected classes and then it would notify you that there are significant problems,

    you can do a lot of that manually with various machine learning software, but having some pre packaged stuff that can you can just put into your workflow and immediately get identify it is really, really powerful. The second place that you can

    mitigate bias is when you’re doing things like feature selection in Watson studio Watson studio as you’re building your models, you can identify like there’s something wrong here. But the third one and thing I think is probably the most powerful of the in house products is one called Watson open scale. This is for managing the models when they are in progress.

    And it is doing what it’s called perturbation testing,

    where it’s constantly, you know, sort of holding back certain data and swapping it in and out as the models running as the models running

    and identifying, hey, things are starting to drift over this, this model starting to exhibit bias. And like fairness, 360, you specify protective glasses, you say, you know, gender must remain at a 5050 split plus or minus, you know, 1% each way,

    you know, African American representation must remain at, you know, 17% plus or minus

    a certain guardrails and it will either read to help you return and fix the models or the worst case just shut it down. If a model goes completely off the guardrails.

    If you think about it,

    there is

    with open scale you’re talking about.

    essentially doing repairs on the car while you’re driving it right or or repairing the plane wallets in flight is extremely difficult thing to do and the fact that it has biased detection mitigation built into it so while you’re managing your models in production is really an incredible engineering feat to be able to say like yeah we can we can fix the model while it’s in production now I have to pull it down and not have to wait for the next round of retuning because it’s your open skill will help you tune it and fix it even if you didn’t intend in the original deployment model to have it be tuned in production. So super, super interesting and important

    product announcement and deployment.

    There is not enough thought being given it in the machine learning world to

    the mitigation advice. It is not a part of the average

    checklist for when someone is is putting together

    what they want the software to do. And so having these tools be available within

    a production environment and having in some cases like with open scale, having it be baked in so that you can’t not have bias detection is really important. It’s really important. It’s really powerful to help make sure that AI serves the outcomes that we want to achieve.

    The The third thing about open skills bias detection, I thought was really interesting was that

    it prohibits or, or reduces inferred variable bias.

    So you may say, going back to the example from earlier

    I want to

    not use gender but if you’re out your model put together an inferred variable lovely between music and book and move.

    likes you have a problem, you’re still you’re still effectively creating a gender valuable when you have protected classes in open scale and you say I gender is protected, this is the outcome, even if the model creates that inferred variable is still being held on course, like holding the steering wheel so that the the car doesn’t drift

    by those protected classes. So you say race and gender and age and protected classes. And no matter what the model comes up with the mix and match in those inferred variables, it’s still cannot say okay, I’m going to now start discriminating against using this inverter variable because it’s over here at saying no

    gender still have to say 5050 and what about this? Nope, gender. So let’s say 5050.

    And that is also really really powerful something again, if you’re if you build a model and you’re not thinking about bias open scales over the backstop to prevent you from going off the rails and doing something you didn’t intend to do. And then waking up one day going oh, my God, are you

    Our system discriminates against women.

    So really, really useful stuff Take a look. You can see Watson open scale on on the IBM website and you can actually try it out the lite version if you want to try it out with your with your models and they do have to be in production through one of the many machine learning systems that actually deployed so really cool stuff.

    If you have any questions leave them below. As always, please leave please subscribe to the newsletter and and the YouTube channel and I’ll talk to you soon.

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  • IBM THINK 2019 Day 2 Recap: The Next Frontier

    IBM THINK 2019 Day 2 Recap: The Next Frontier

    In this video, learn 5 key takeaways from day 2 of IBM THINK 2019 on the topics of finding more AI/ML talent, the use of personas in an AI work, digital transformation and its relationship to AI, finding new opportunities for innovation, and perhaps the meaning of life itself with quantum computing.

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    In today’s episode we are recapping day two of IBM think so, so much happening yesterday it’s tough to narrow it down to just a few things but for things really stood out that were just mind bending. Number one

    there was a great presentation by IBM Chairman genuine Maddie on where you can operationalize getting new talent that has data science and machine learning and AI experience. She highlighted three examples of returning parents with IBM is real tech re entry program where they look for people who were very successful before leaving the workforce for any number of

    reasons. The example cited was a woman who wanted to be a full time mom for a number of years, found that after her kids were grown, she want to re enter the workforce, had the technical chops the aptitude and was able to re enter after a essentially what sounds like a an intensive boot camp to get her skills more up to date, but still functioning mind. So the second was veterans, looking for people who have transferable skills, who are just leaving, they’re just exiting the military and getting them into the civilian workforce, but still letting them use the discipline and the experience they had in the armed forces. And the third, of course, is any kind of minority population like persons of color

    people of different ethnic and religious backgrounds. The example cited was a pipeline of charters

    schools that IBM runs in essentially taking over really poor performing charter school. If we really poor performing public schools and trying them to detect charter schools that they can then accelerate the growth from your standard for your high school diploma to a six year program, it would you also get an associates degree and then immediately enter the workforce working for obviously, in this case, IBM. So really good presentation there on

    where we could all be looking to get new talent, especially if we’re not able to either find or in some cases afford the the existing top shelf talent out there. Rather than trying to poach talent from

    other competitors may be able to grow our own. The second was by Hyundai card, which is the credit card division of Hyundai

    CEO, Ted Chung, who was talking about the way they’re doing personalization and what was fascinating was not

    But they would do that, because that’s relatively straightforward. But the way they were using artificial intelligence at one point, he said very briefly, this presentation, we’re doing personas, but not in the way you think we track personas for multiple personas per person,

    per person. And he went on to say, You are a different person. When you’re at work, when you’re at home, when you’re out playing sports, when you are at the bar with your friends. And instead of assuming that you are going to behave the same in each environment, they have multiple personas dependent that are context dependent, and thanks to artificial intelligence machine learning, they’re able to keep track of that. And that was one of those ones like wow, that’s would take some building to do but that makes complete logical sense that you would want to be able to be more granular in your messaging to somebody in your chat bots and your text messages and everything with the

    interactions to say, this is where you are right now and what you’re doing right now. And this is how our product or service can help you do those things better.

    The third was a segment again from the chairman’s keynote on digital transformation, which is still very buzzword. But Chairman remedy said something very interesting. She said that digital transformation as the process of helping the company to come digital first is sometimes a prerequisite of AI. If you look at a lot of the popular literature about digital transformation, a lot of people are talking about how

    AI helps you achieve digital transformation. And and she said, That’s not always correct.

    In a lot of cases. If you use AI to power a digital transformation, you will in many cases, be using new technology and new techniques to automate or make more efficient the way you’ve always done

    stuff. And so you won’t read the full value of AI as opposed to the much more intensive, lengthy and expensive

    process of blowing up the existing processes and building them from the ground up to be digital first, which is requires a lot more effort, but can then reap the full transformative value of AI by saying, instead of just making old stuff go faster. It’s, it’s doing things in a completely new way. So the joke of trying to, you know, put a motor on a horse as opposed to, you know, reinventing and reengineering a car. So, that was, I thought, a refreshing take on on the way that to think about digital transformation and a digitization of organizations. You have to reimagine that first

    which was actually also the topic of a long in depth conversation I had with one of IBM is distinguished engineers and master inventors, yesterday Dr. Mandy yourself.

    About how she as someone who has more than 50 patents to her name at how she finds new opportunities to to innovate, to invent, and we got a long conversation about

    looking at how customer feedback all circles around something, but

    there it’s though no one’s asking the next logical step question. So how do you find that part of it is experienced part of its imagination part of it is

    seeing where things are going and part of its knowing the technology and what you what you can and can’t do with it. But she was very helpful. One of my favorite reasons to come to shows like things are those one on ones where you get to sit down with a subject matter expert and just ask your burning questions to somebody who actually has the answers that has built a lifetime career out of out of making use of those answers. So I was very helpful.

    Last one, and this is not relevant to marketing yet

    was a quantum computing session on current applications of quantum computing and where it’s going, and it’s, it’s too long to get into the explanation of it here of the technology. But they said that digital twins, the idea of taking a device anything and you have a digital representation of it, your digital twin, have a coffee pot or an airplane engine and be able to simulate and run exercises on it is, is the hot use of a lot of what’s happening in Internet of Things. Right now, quantum computing, the use case they’re looking at is creating digital twins at the atomic level. So a digital twin of a pill or a cell or something microscopic but fully represented that allows you to run simulations, real accurate simulations of the world representing it at the atomic level as opposed to to sort of get

    What a compound might do when it reacts to something else you could model the actual electrons and things and there was a an interesting line on that the presentation that said that digital twins at the atomic level may

    let us answer the most pressing are the most important question of all human civilization which is what is life if you can simulate with accuracy and fidelity

    life itself you may discover what actually causes life I was one of those moments were like wow this could radically change how we understand everything to work if we could finally say this is what life is this is we’re using digital twins and quantum computing this is where your soul comes from so fascinating fascinating stuff today I am looking forward to a I’m doing a boot camp myself an intensive on the new offerings and Watson studio with with with a two

    Our workshop this morning and a bunch of stuff today. So looking forward to all that there is to enjoy here at at IBM think as always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel on the newsletter will catch up with you tomorrow for the day three recap what help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems. Visit trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Qualitative Data Analysis

    You Ask, I Answer: Qualitative Data Analysis

    Dave asks, “How do you interpret the “why”, i.e. if you see data that says actions were taken (or not) how do you determine WHY those actions were taken so you can replicate or avoid those specific marketing tactics moving forward?”

    No analytics tool focused on gathering “what” data – meaning, what happened – is going to give you “why” data – why customers made the choices they made. In this video, we walk through three data sources to get “why” data, and places you’ll need to go to get it.

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    In today’s episode, Dave asks, How do you interpret the why if you see data that says actions were taken or not? How do you determine why those actions were taken? So you can replicate or avoid those specific marketing tactics moving forward?

    Good question. The answer is from the existing marketing data you have in your analytics tool, the answers, you probably can’t. And the reason why is that analytics tools like Google Analytics, for example, are really only collecting the what what happened, not the why. And for the most part, you can’t extract a whole lot of meaning from that, with one or two exceptions, which we’ll talk about in order to extract the why you have to get inside the customers head and that means asking them

    questions and and looking through and researching the answers. So let’s go through a few different methods of doing this what’s called qualitative data analysis. The first and and easiest to implement is on all your intake points, are you asking customers how they heard about you? Is there a box where someone can type in I watched a webinar with you, for example, if you’re not doing intake, assessment, intake data collection, you’re missing an easy opportunity

    to get some of that data and to understand, okay, this, this is useful stuff, be very careful about drop downs, I don’t like drop downs, because what tends to happen is that people choose the easiest thing and not necessarily, you know, the thing that is most prominent in their memory. So that unaided recall, how did I hear about this company, I find to be very, very useful.

    The second is to mind the data you are already collecting

    you are collecting, I would assume customer service data, call center data, CRM data, and so on and so forth, you’re getting a lot of text input

    from customers, your customer service inbox, maybe even key executives have data that they’re collecting. Now, they they get emails from, from industry, peers, and so on, and so forth.

    And so there may be options there, you want to gather all this data, pool it together, and then use text mining tools, machine learning tools

    to extract out hey, these are the common words and phrases over time I keep

    appearing are disappearing and being able to quantify that and then match that against

    your marketing

    calendar, your editorial content, hey, we published a great number of pieces of out about the new being a coffee that we released

    n. And sure enough, two months later, customers were emailing us about our our new coffee. So that would be an example of using some of that existing data. The one

    the one thing I’d be very careful of there is that you if you’re going to use social media data, be very cautious with it. Because it is extremely messy. There are significant problems with bots and automation, meaning that you may not be analyzing data coming from real people and,

    and social media networks themselves are biased. Each network has its own bias for things like age, and gender, and demographic. But then also there’s behavioral biases to generally speaking, people don’t participate on social media about stuff about a brand unless either it was a really powerful activation

    or they really happy or they’re really unhappy. And if you’re trying to do something, for example, like our FM analysis, where you’re trying to take

    okay customers and turn them into great customers, get them to buy more, you’re going to have a big gap in your data, because the satisfied but not thrilled customers aren’t going to bother posting their it’s simply not interested. And so be very difficult to identify those people. So that’s mining the data you have. The next thing, of course, is getting more data getting more qualitative

    data. And this comes from things like focus groups for Are you writing focus groups

    that are sitting people down and having a chat for a couple hours about hey, this is what they are looking for in a next brewed coffee?

    Are you doing stuff like that, where you can get information from them that is qualitative in nature, that you can then say, Okay, these are, this is what our customers really care about. So let’s make sure that we do less of this and more of that

    customer advisory boards. I think probably one of the most underrated tactics for getting qualitative data about your brand and your marketing. When you have customers who are already paying you money, you can ask them questions about your marketing and say, hey, did this resonate with you? We ran this campaign did even see the campaign

    How would you have done it differently if we want to reach more people like you because your best customers, how do we reach more people like you. So customer advisory boards and think are

    incredibly

    powerful. And then of course, if you want to kick it up a doing formal market research with a credible market research firm is certainly a way to go for going to spend $10 million on your next you know, massive media by Shouldn’t you spend 100 grand on making sure that the message and the concept and everything correct this the firm I recommend there if you’re going to do something like that would be a company like Edison research Tom Webster shop, but they are top shelf and and get you credible,

    correct data.

    So

    you have

    the when it comes to the qualitative data, it really is asking people it is getting insights and data already happening, collecting new data on top of that, that’s how you get those qualitative data insights. And then what you have to do is, then start to quantify them. So if you have a focus group where you have some mind data, qualitative data

    is not quantitative data, which means that you can’t just slap a you know, say 55,000, the seven customers we asked in our focus group want this,

    but they may still be biased. So you still want to run a larger scale quantitative survey emails to your customers or surveys, through survey panels or market research firms to validate your qualitative findings. It’s an ongoing process in order to make sure that you’re doing and you’re getting the right data from your customers and from your audience that will lead you to believe to do

    get correct answers. So good question. It’s it’s a complicated questions, I’ll probably a lot more complicated than you were hoping for

    the one the one area where you can get good insights about what’s working from your quantitative data is around attribution analysis. If you have the data and you have the software to pull it together,

    if you have the data means that you are a primarily online business, like if you’re going to analyze data with Google Analytics in your primarily online business.

    And then there’s very little interference from outside sources that are not online. And you can use attribution analysis, either built in or run more sophisticated attribution analysis to figure out what’s working. If you have all the significant components of offline, you have to gather all the data from all the offline sources, put it in a massive spreadsheet, along with all of your online data,

    and then run

    again, very sophisticated machine learning algorithms, one particular called gradient boosting that will help you understand what combination of activities and variables and things leads to the outcome you want. It is doable, it is possible but it requires a lot of heavy lifting to get it to get that data all pulled together. We’re in the middle of a project right now for a customer and it is taking, you know, weeks to to build the models and test them and things like that. So it’s not an easy thing to

    do,

    but it is doable if you want to so good question, Dave. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter

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