Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Starting Marketing Data?

    You Ask, I Answer: Starting Marketing Data?

    Magdalena asks, “If you have a new company or a new startup in marketing, how do you get started with no data?”

    This is a common question not only for new companies, but also for people new to a role who are coming into an organization where data may not be trustworthy or analytics software may not be configured correctly. As such, it’s effectively the same as starting something brand new. The starting point for a marketing initiative without data is to go get third-party data until you have enough of your own to build successful models. Watch the video for some useful tips about where to get that data.

    Top data sources for marketers:

    • Search data through tools like AHREFs
    • Public social media data through tools like Talkwalker and Brand24
    • Public data repositories like data.world, data.gov, and Kaggle
    • Survey data you collect
    • Other harvestable data you have rights to

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    In today’s episode, Magdalena asks, If you have a new company or a new startup in marketing, how do you get started with no data? This is a very common question. And not only for new companies or new startups, although certainly that’s probably the most common case was the case when Katie Rivera and I started up trust insights a little over a year ago. But it’s also a situation that is common for people who are coming into a an organization where the data may not be reliable, may not be trustworthy, your analytic software may not be configured correctly. And so you are effectively still starting from ground zero. So how do you deal with a situation like this? Well, the first thing to do, of course, is to immediately fix up and start collecting good data. So if you come into an organization or a startup, or whatever the case may be, and you don’t have the basics in place like Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and a Google Data Studio, all the things that are essential for today’s marketing, you clearly want to do that. First, you want to start collecting data as quickly as you can. After you’ve gotten the basics of your own data underway, the next step is to start bringing in credible third party data to supplement your own data until you have enough of your own to build successful models. So there are a number of different data sources that are available to marketers that regardless of when you start in a in a company or an organization, the data is already out there, it’s already good or good enough. And you can begin building models and understanding intent and things like that from that data. So what are those data sources? Number one, search data is essential. Search data is essential, because generally speaking, people are searching for things around the clock, anywhere in the world that they have internet access. And that data is typically highly structured if you’re using from a very simple tool like Google Trends to sophisticated SEO tools like RFID, which is the one that I recommend, and they are a participating sponsor of marketing over coffee. So disclosure, they do spend money with us. You can download massive amounts of SEO data search data, what terms of being most searched for what keywords, what phrases, what topics, what articles, what, what’s any kind of information that is URL based, you can get from professional SEO tools. And that information is typically very good at being longitudinal meaningful, get a get it over time. And it is highly structured, it comes out in beautiful, you know, CSV, or spreadsheets, and you can begin working with it immediately. So for any marketer, I would say search data is where you have to start. What are people searching for in your industry, I have never run into an industry where the intended audience never searched for anything that is never once happened yet. So that’s a good place to start. A second place would be public social media, data, conversations, topics, things like that. You can use tools like talk Walker, which I use a lot. And brand 24, which I also use a lot. Both of them are great tools for pulling social data about specific topics of discussion. Now, unlike search data, some industries, there won’t be a ton of social media data if if there are topics that frankly, are too sensitive to be discussed or may not be available in social media monitoring tools. Cyber Security is a really good example. A lot of the best discussions in cyber security don’t happen in public forums. They happen in private closed groups, and the unless you are a member of those groups already, you’re not getting it. So

    that’s a case where you will want to supplement it with other types of data. A third data repository, there are public data repositories out there like data dot world data.gov, which is a lot of us data, there’s a hundreds of thousands of data sets when the government isn’t shut down. And Cagle calm is another great resource. There’s a tons of great publicly available, licensed for public use data sets that you can download and walk through that. Although again, for almost every industry available, the exception there would be, there’s not a ton of sensitive national security data publicly available for very good reason. So that would be a case where you would have to resort to others the data sources. Number four is survey data you can collect and you should be collecting survey data on a regular frequent basis. Survey data is essential because it allows you to start asking people why, why are certain things important? We just ran a survey trust insights. One of our quarterly surveys asked people what their biggest pain point was and why. And it’s open, open open ended questions. Using stats tools like our and stuff, we can parse those open ended questions and turn them into structured data. But survey data is very, very useful. And if you’re coming into especially an organization where there are customers, as mailing list things, and there isn’t good analytical data survey data is a great way to get off to the races, because you can just send it to your organization’s database and say, Hey, what are the top issues on your mind, and that will give you some really useful insights and starting points. It can also be a way for you to validate the data you have asking people to update their profiles, for example, not only will you get obviously, those people who are still interested in communicating with you, but then you’ll be able to clean up some of your data. And finally, would be any other harvest double data that you have rights to. That can be things like podcast data that can be anything internal CRM data can be customer service data, there’s a good chance unless your company is literally brand new, that there is harvest of data within your organization to work with. Now, if you are completely and totally brand new, then other content marketing data may be useful other industry data may be useful. Almost every democratic society on the planet has a government that has publishing data that is available for download. And even frankly, some governments that are not democratic, still publish a lot of data that is accessible that you can work with. And you can practice with as well. So if you’re starting over if you’ve got something new from a data perspective, there’s a ton out there. Google for the magic term, the magic word when you Google for data is data set. So asking for data about for example, the laundry industry, you you wouldn’t necessarily just start like you know, laundry service data. You want laundry service data set one word, that data set word, because that’s something that folks who are compiling and publishing data tend to use more. So that’s a useful little tip to help you with that. So great question. It’s a frequent one. Remember that you are surrounded by data. There’s no shortage of it out there. You just have to know how to go find it, bring it in and start analyzing. As always, please leave comments in the comments box below. And subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter I’ll talk to you soon.

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  • How to Calculate Marketing ROI

    How to Calculate Marketing ROI

    Pick a term that is bandied about the most but understood the least in business (especially marketing) and chances are it will be ROI, return on investment. Many marketers are asked by senior stakeholders what their ROI is, how to calculate marketing ROI, or whether their ROI is trending in the right direction.

    Before we go any farther, let’s define marketing ROI clearly.

    What is ROI?

    Simply put, it is the following mathematical formula:

    (Earned – Spent) / Spent = ROI

    In marketing terms, this is:

    (Income Earned from Marketing Efforts – Marketing Expenses) / Marketing Expenses = ROI of Marketing

    The result is a decimal, which, if multiplied by 100, can be expressed as a percentage.

    That is ROI. It’s a deceptively simple formula. The reason why it’s so deceptively simple is that a lot of metrics go into each of the formula components.

    Determining income earned from marketing efforts requires the use of a good CRM that allows you to track what marketing methods actually result in sales, and what the revenue of those sales is. For example, let’s say you sell chewing gum. To the best of your ability, you need to be able to track exactly how much gum you’ve sold to consumers at what price, by marketing channel. The last part is the catch. It’s easy to figure out how much gum you’ve sold, but much harder to figure out what marketing channel drove those sales. Online is relatively simple – using tools like Google Analytics to track checkouts at a virtual store makes that fairly straightforward. Offline is trickier and requires tools like surveying and statistical sampling in order to accurately assess why someone bought a pack of gum.

    Income can be even trickier to determine if it’s decoupled from marketing, as is often the case with wholesalers and resellers. If you manufacture alkaline batteries like Duracell or Energizer, there’s a good chance you use a distributor or reseller like a Walmart or Target to resell your goods. As a result, your marketing efforts to build your brand are decoupled from the actual transactions because someone else is handling the sales – and as a result, all of your brand-building effort may be for naught if a reseller fails to display your products effectively. One of the few methods that gets around this problem to some degree is coupon redemption. If a manufacturer issues a coupon, they can get an actual idea of a channel’s income generation potential by tracking how many coupons were issued vs. how many were redeemed from that channel.

    The expense side of marketing is also fraught with danger, especially in marketing subcategories like social media. Almost no one tracks the single largest expense in social media: time. Time is not free. Time has never been free. How much you spend in any marketing channel isn’t just a question of money leaving your bank account or corporate credit card, but time spent as money. What else goes into the cost side? Ideally, every cost that is part of your marketing – from the cost of the company’s Internet access to salaries to rent to the coffee machine in the kitchen. The way to think about the expense side is, if you had no marketers on staff, what money would you not spend?

    How to Calculate Marketing ROI

    Here’s an example of determining time spent as money. Let’s say you’re in marketing and you earn 50,000 per year. The effective number of working hours you have per year is 52 weeks x 40 hours per week, or 2,080 hours. Your effective hourly pay, then, is24.04 per hour. For every hour you spend on Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, etc., you are effectively investing $24.04 of time as money in that marketing channel. Suddenly, channels like social media get very expensive.

    So let’s put the two sides, income and expense, together in an example so that you can see what marketing ROI looks like.

    Let’s say you decided to advertise using Google’s Adwords pay per click advertising. Let’s say you spent 500 in cash and 5 hours of your time (at a50,000/year salary) to get Adwords up and running, and in turn, you earned $1,000 in sales of, let’s say citrus-scented headphones.

    Do the preparation math:

    • Income: $1,000
    • Expense (cash): $500
    • Expense (non-cash): 24.04 x 5 =120.20
    • Total Expense: $620.20

    The ROI formula is Income – Expense / Expense, so 1,000 –620.20 / 620.20 = 61.24%.

    This is an excellent ROI. It states that for every dollar spent, you earned the dollar back plus 61.24 cents. Any business would be very pleased with that ROI and would likely ask you to invest a little more time and a lot more money if that result remains consistent.

    Let’s try another example for the same person at the same company. Let’s say you’ve decided that Facebook is the hottest thing since sliced bread and you’re going to avoid outlaying cash on your Facebook efforts. You set up a Fan Page for your citrus-scented headphones, take 80 hours to set it up, administer it, manage the community, do outreach, etc. but you spend no money on it and you manage to sell1,000 worth of those strange headphones. You’re feeling good about yourself – this social media stuff works, right?

    Do the preparation math:

    • Income: $1,000
    • Expense (cash): $0
    • Expense (non-cash): 24.04 x 80 =1,923.20
    • Total Expense: $1,923.20

    The ROI formula shows 1,000 –1,923.20 / $1,923.20 = -48% ROI. Uh oh. When you account for time spent as money, Facebook (in this example) is a money-loser. For every dollar of time you invest in it, you’re losing 48 cents.

    Now, what’s not in the examples above? All the ancillary costs (equipment, utilities, rent, etc.), which are typically easiest to calculate by person. Talk to your financial team to ask what those costs are and bundle them into the non-case expenses above; your CFO and their team likely have exact dollar amounts per employee of expenses which you can use to make the above calculations more accurate.

    The Use and Misuse of ROI

    We’re clear on the basic definition of ROI. Why is it so difficult for marketing to use it properly?

    ROI is a financial term with a financial formula. There is no substitute for it and there are no ways to weasel around it that don’t make us look like fools. Expressions like “return on awareness”, “return on engagement”, and “return on conversation” are largely invented terms by people who don’t know how to calculate ROI.

    ROI is not the ultimate measure of marketing performance. ROI is an objective metric (an endgame metric that tells you if you’ve reached your goals) only if cost containment is a priority for your business. ROI fundamentally measures net profit – how much money you made after expenses. What financial metrics do you measure your business by? For example, if you are in a growth mode with an objective of capturing significant market share and net profit is not a strategic priority (such as many startups), ROI can actually be a hindrance to your marketing efforts because over-focus on it will prevent you from taking short-term losses in exchange for long-term strategic gains.

    What to Do With ROI Calculations

    This is where it’s decision time for you as a marketer.

    Remember, if cost containment isn’t a primary goal, ROI isn’t the correct metric to be focusing on. If you’ve made the conscious and strategic decision to take a short-term financial loss (in cash and time spent as money) in order to grow a long-term opportunity, then negative ROI may be acceptable for the duration of your campaign. However, if cost containment is a primary goal for your marketing department, you have to make the decision whether to adjust your Facebook strategy or cut it out and stop your losses.

    Ultimately, ROI is just one way to measure marketing’s performance, but it’s one of the least well-understood ways of doing so. By walking through this calculation, you’ll realize just how difficult it is to calculate with great precision and how meticulous you must be in your tracking methods in order to capture even moderately good quality data. If you can do that effectively, ROI is yours to analyze, but if you can’t because of organizational structure or operational issues, then you’ll need to forego the use of ROI as a marketing metric.

    What could you use instead? According to the most recent CMO Survey, CMOs are most concerned about the financial impact of marketing efforts. That doesn’t mean ROI specifically; the financial impact is anything which adds tangible, measurable value to the company’s overall revenue side. How much revenue can you attribute to your marketing efforts? In many companies, this calculation is more valuable, easier to compute, and can be made more granular to understand which marketing efforts drive the highest financial impact. Using today’s most sophisticated analytics and AI capabilities, attribution analysis may be your best bet for proving the value of marketing when ROI isn’t appropriate or available.

    Disclosure: this post has been edited and updated over the years. The most recent edition added new information about attribution analysis.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Qualitative vs. Quantitative Marketing Data

    You Ask, I Answer: Qualitative vs. Quantitative Marketing Data

    Magdalena asks, “Which is more important for marketers, qualitative or quantitative data?”

    This common question is a false choice. Both are equally important and inform each other. Watch the full video for an explanation with details, and ways to gather both.

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    In today’s episode, yesterday after the keynote at info share, Magdalena asked me, one speaker talked about human to human interactions and the importance of being human and talking to customers and getting very deep into their motivations. And she asked,

    I talk a lot about big data and data science and in AI and analytics, she’s which is the right approach to drive your business?

    And I said, it’s a false choice. There is no business that I can think of that could only do qualitative or only quantitative and succeed. Think of them as like, a two by two matrix right. You have less one more question.

    quality of data less and more quantitative data.

    These two types of data go in a in a cycle. Think about the the the Asian in your yin yang as, as it’s more commonly known. There they go in this repeatable cycle where you do one, you get some information, and then that informs the next cycle. So you might do some quantitative assessment, you look in your your Google Analytics and you see a whole bunch of people abandon this page. So you put up a one question pop up survey on the page, say, hey,

    what brought you here today and get some qualitative answers. And those qualitative answers could then tell you, hey, people are actually on this page because they want left hand smoke shifters and they only have right handed ones. And so you now know if we want to maximize the performance of this

    paid with better put some right handed smoke shifters on this page.

    Then you go through and then you re manager again, the quantitative side. And this process goes on as you refine your understanding of what it is that people want.

    In the same way that you can’t be just creative or just analytical marketing, nor can you be just quantitative or just qualitative, you have to be both you have to have the skills or at least the awareness as a manager, that you need both sets of skills on your team in order to make the most of your marketing of your content of your promotions of your ad dollars. If you don’t do that, you’re going to not deliver as good a result as a competitor that will. Another aspect of this is

    if you think about quantitative, it can really give you a a deep or very wide perspective on your business.

    And then quality of gives you, the guys into individual aspects and you want to take a look at. So, again, if you think about an example, like maybe have a coffee shop,

    and there’s a certain drink that does very, very well.

    Your next step should be one on one interviews or a focus group or maybe a survey to your audience to figure out. What is it about this drink that people like? Is it the temperature? Is it the flavor, is it it’s the best size of it?

    What is it that makes customers really like this drink? Here’s the thing. Quantitative data for the most part is not going to tell you that. Quantitative data is going to tell you how much or how fast or how big

    but it’s not going to tell you why. And that really is when you need to be talking to those those

    those people in depth. The trick is

    And this is where a lot of qualitative research, it’s not done properly if it’s not done by someone qualified to do so can really mislead you is that your qualitative research has to be representative.

    And by that, I mean it has to look like your overall audience and the demographics that you are going after. So

    very

    straightforward example. Suppose that you owned a pet store. And you’re real curious about this.

    This brand new toy that you’ve got for four dogs, and you do a survey to the five people

    that like the first five people to walk in the door that day, and for them or cat owners.

    What kind of information are you going to get about this new dog toy? For people who are cat owners? The answer is nothing to get very good information because they’re not the target market for this point.

    Thank. So part of qualitative research is being able to create and set up and maintain a representative audience for the purposes of what it is that you’re doing. And again, that’s where a lot of marketers don’t really do a great job. The most flagrant abuse of this that I see is when people survey their email list, and then make very broad generalizations about all markers. It’s only marketers that that are in your community.

    For example, if you’re on my email newsletter list, there’s a good chance that you probably put a lot of value or at least understand the importance of things like data and analytics.

    That’s not true of all marketers. And so, if I were to release a survey of, you know, 28,000, marketers

    and that’s not necessarily representative, I would have to do the research to prove that

    lyst was representative of all marketers first, before I could make that claim.

    Victory fake careful when you when you see surveys making claims out all of anything, you definitely want to see a statement of compliance as to how that and the methodology of how that was gathered. There are two organizations in the United States. As for the American Association of Public opinion, researchers, Castro, Cameron with cancer stands for

    both of these have templates for great disclosures about methodology but how you did your sampling, how you did your non response, bias modeling, etc. All these are very, very important for qualitative survey.

    But that’s something that on the qualitative side you need to be careful of. Same is true on the quantitative side to you can misrepresent or misunderstand your analytical data, what happened data as well, but it was a really good question because a lot of the time

    we have a very bad

    area mindset. It’s this or this one with this and this, would you Yes, it means double the work. But it also means double the opportunity. If you’re if you’re thinking about how do you make use of this stuff, whatever the stuff is, whether it’s Google Analytics or tag manager or serving tools or focus groups or customer advisory boards, whatever it is, how do you make the most of it, you make the most of it by pairing techniques together by adding techniques together until you have a full palette of techniques to choose from to understand your audience, what they want to buy from you, and how they best want to be served. So great question back on that will have a few more questions from

    that interview as well unfortunately, didn’t get a recording of it as it happened. So it’s got to repeat the questions here. But as always, if you have comments, please leave them in the comments box below. And please subscribe to the YouTube channel. The newsletter will talk to you soon. What helps solving your company’s data

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Starting from Scratch with Marketing Data

    You Ask, I Answer: Starting from Scratch with Marketing Data

    Seth asks, “I just took over a marketing volunteer role for a small non-profit and they have no data repository. Like, nothing but disparate spreadsheets; some with donors, some with event attendees, some prior volunteers, etc. What should I be thinking about while building from the ground up to make sure I’m setting them up for success?”

    Great and not uncommon question. Whether you’re just starting out, the organization is just starting out, or you’re doing a reboot, the process is largely going to be the same.

    • Be sure marketing’s goals and priorities are clearly outlined; some non-profits are all about the donations while others are all about the activations.
    • Start with an audit and make sure the basics of the martech stack are in place, operational, and collecting data. For CRM I recommend Hubspot’s free sales CRM edition. Google Analytics is a must.
    • Get what data you have into the relevant systems.
    • As soon as relevant, start doing qualitative data collection from members/customers/etc. as well as key stakeholders to understand priorities.
    • Rely heavily on third party data in the beginning, especially search, social, and survey data. If it’s a non-profit that addresses a public cause with awareness, look to the many public data repositories like data.gov and dataUSA for usable market insights.
    • For non-profits without much budget, I recommend AHREFs for SEO at their base package, Brand24 for social monitoring and research, Agorapulse for social posting and inbox (30% NPO discount).

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    In today’s episode Seth asks, I just took over a marketing volunteer role for a small nonprofit. They have no data repository like nothing but spreadsheets, donors, attendees and fire volunteers, etc. What should I be thinking about while building from the ground up to make sure I’m setting them up for success? This is a great and not uncommon question. This you can find yourself in the situation where you’re just starting out, whether the organization says getting started a reboot, starting a new role, etc. The process is largely going to be the same. The process is going to be essentially, you know, plan, fix, build grow.

    The first part, the part that’s most important is making sure that you understand the organization’s marketing goals and priorities, make sure they are clearly outlined and that key stakeholders are aligned with those priorities.

    For a nonprofit, some of them are all about, we want donors we want donations, you know, put the put the money in the bucket, etc. and marketing is marketing’s role is to support that. One of the first nonprofits I worked at that was they were all about getting the donations and that wasn’t marketing had to do other nonprofits. We have a customer right now that is focused on making good use of the donations that they get. There’s another part of the company that does the donations. And the marketing role for the team we work with is all about getting people in the door to serve their key audience. So make sure that we’re very clear about what it is and that the key stakeholders have checked off like Yep, this is what we care about.

    The second would be a full audit full martek stack audit, what pieces are, what pieces Could you be building with? So you’re going to need a CRM, I would say for a nonprofit, take a real hard look at HubSpot CRM, because it is for

    Free at the basic level, and if they’ve got nothing but spreadsheets now, the basic HubSpot CRM the zero dollar one is probably going to be good enough. And then they can upgrade to like sale starter later on if they if you want to, but that’s a good CRM to look at. Well, for the middle of the marketing automation side, you’re probably going to want to look at something like probably a MailChimp again, this is not going to be a fortune 500 massive martech organization, so you’re not going to need the the top of the line. But certainly having something like MailChimp in place to at least collect contact information and be able to reach back out to people is going to be important and it’s much cheaper than HubSpot marketing automation, which is egregiously expensive out of the gate.

    The third is, you will obviously want to make sure that you will have Google Analytics installed fully configured like decked out like crazy,

    every relevant feature turned on and then you’re going to want to

    be pulling in other data as relevant into something like Google Data Studio. So that would be things like Facebook data, Twitter data, etc.

    So that you are you’re pulling in as as complete a picture and get the data that you have like those volunteers and attendees and donors etc. into the relevant systems. With HubSpot, for example, in their sales CRM, you might want to set up different categories for the different types of contacts and be able to manage them there.

    So that’s getting the martek stack in order in order and then get what data you have in the relevant places.

    I would say after that, it is probably time. So you know the priorities you know the systems now it’s time to guide the marketing itself. As soon as as you have permission to do so. I would start doing qualitative research, qualitative data collection from those members, those attendees, those volunteers and the key stakeholders within the company to

    Get a deeper understanding of the priorities and how people feel about them. Because if you’re going to be building marketing, you want to hear from those people. So one on ones, coffee chats, maybe a focus group, if it’s relevant, you know, using something like Google Hangouts, or you know, any of the free conferencing services. But get that qualitative data collection in place. Get things transcribed, start doing text analysis of the interviews that you do and look for those common themes. That would all be really important stuff to do. And then for other data,

    look at search and social media. So a lot of when trust insights was getting started, we had no data we were brand new company, we had an understanding of the data landscape, but we didn’t know what we didn’t know. So our first

    our first and most important acquisitions were things like a good SEO tool. We use the RFC to

    Well, which is relatively expensive, although for a nonprofit, I think you can go to like the basic starter level. You don’t need to pay for like the pro level right out the gate to get search data like what is it that people are searching about in your industry? What pages are popular? Things like that? Take a look at buzz Sumo for some of the content that people talk about. What are the things that on your topic are relevant? And then social media listening data? I would say for a small nonprofit, take a look at brand 24 they are affordable they have really good social listening for a relatively low costs. And for social publishing look at buffer or Agoura pulse. I don’t know if a Gora pulse has a like a nonprofit tier. But they would be folks to look at as well. But those those would be the data sources I would look at for search and social. The other thing I would look at would be

    credible third party repositories if your nonprofits cause is something that there’s going to be a good

    public data about. So for example, if it’s cancer, guess what, there’s a ton of really good free medical data to work with that will help you inform your marketing and provide additional support for the creative you kind of put together. So repositories like data, Gov data, USA, cattle, and so on and so forth, if it’s a cause that people can rally behind, and that there’s public data about, go look at those sources, as places to pull data for setting marketing priorities or improving marketing creative. So there’s a lot of data out there, but this is the order that would do things and make sure you got your plan, do the audit, collect qualitative data, collect third party data and use all that and put it in keep it in though that really good structure that martek stack that that we talked about so that you know where things are, and that the systems can work together to amplify your capabilities, but really fun questions death and and good luck to the

    The nonprofit of nonprofits or something that the world desperately needs more of the are doing good things. As always, leave comments in the comments box below and then subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter, I’ll talk to you soon.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Augmented Analytics Viability?

    You Ask, I Answer: Augmented Analytics Viability?

    Michael asks, “Have you heard of augmented analytics (defined by Gartner)? It seems to me it means your job will get easier in the short run and you’ll be out of business in the long run – if you believe it. I’d be interested in your comments on it.”

    Augmented analytics is what the rest of the world calls automated data science. It holds a lot of promise, but there are a few problems with it right now. There are four aspects to the feature engineering part of data science. Some can be automated easily; others will require significantly more research before fully automated solutions are viable. Watch the video for full details.

    Subsets of feature engineering:

    • Feature extraction – machines can easily do the one-hot encoding, but things like labeling are tricky (limited label data and active learning are helping)
    • Feature estimation and selection – machines very easily do variable/predictor importance
    • Feature creation – a subset of feature engineering – is still largely a creative task
    • Feature imputation – also a subset of feature engineering – is knowing what’s missing from a dataset (MOC)

    These are difficult to automate tasks. Will they ever be? Probably. But not for a while, especially the latter parts which require significant domain expertise. For the most valuable models, these will become automated, but there are tons of models for which it will take a while, if ever, for them to be made.

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    In today’s episode, Michael asks, have you heard of augmented analytics as defined by Gartner, it seems to me it means your job will get easier in the short run, and you’ll be out of business in the long run. If you believe it, I’d be interested in your comments on it. So I took a look at the article that Michael had shared about augment analytics. And fundamentally, after you read through it is it is, as consulting firms are often doing is they’re they’re branded spin their branded name on something very common. augmented analytics is what the rest of the world calls automated data science, the ability to use machine learning and AI technologies to take a data set and transform it and do a lot of the analysis and insights generation from that data set. automated data science is it holds a lot of promise. But the challenge is in when you look at the data science lifecycle, there is a stage which they say in the article, your data preparation is 80% of the data scientists work. And it’s his mundane work, which isn’t really true.

    That’s something that said often by people who are not data scientists,

    feature engineering as a subset of that is probably the most important part. So there’s really, we think about there’s there’s sort of three parts to this section of data science there is getting the data, there’s cleaning the data, and then there’s preparing the data for usage, getting the data, yes, something that is automated, should be automated. Because pulling data out of API’s and things is a very, very programmatic process. And it should be cleaning the data. Again, something that can be automated to some degree. There are a number of good machine learning tool libraries that can help you clean your data. The hard part is the preparation of the data. And this is done it processes called feature engineering. And feature engineering simply means finding ways to make the data set more valuable and more useful for machine learning modeling. And there’s four parts to it that are important.

    There is feature extraction, which is when you are creating features, or you’re doing processing on features, I should clarify a feature is nothing more than a dimension. If you think about in Google Analytics, for example, there are dimensions and metrics, metrics, so the numbers dimensions that they aspects. So metrics are how many visitors? Did you get your way? Your website? dimensions are which website? Which sources did they come from, like Facebook, or email, and so on, so forth. dimensions are not numbers, metrics are numbers. So when we’re talking about feature engineering, we’re talking about engineering, additional dimensions and metrics from the dimensions and metrics you already have. So for example, in a tweet, a dimension would be the date, right, and you could engineer additional things from that date, such as the year, the month, the day, the day of the year, the day of the month, the day at the quarter, and so on and so forth. Simple feature extraction like that, or what’s called one hot encoding, which is an aspect of turning words into numbers. So if you had a database of days of the week, Sunday would become one and Monday would become a two and so on so forth. That stuff, yes, machines can easily automate it. And it’s something that machines absolutely should do. When it comes to feature extraction, those things like labeling get very tricky. Again, marketers see this a lot and things like sentiment when you try to assess is a tweet positive, neutral and negative? Well, there’s a lot of judgment that goes into that kind of labeling and machines are getting better at it, but still not great at it. And when you have limited label data, especially for more complex data sets, yes, again, our machine learning algorithms like active learning that are starting to help, but they are still very, very limited in what they can do. For example, labeling your data, is it customer service, sweet, this is a sales tweet, is this an advertising related tweet, who should this tweet go to using Twitter stuff as an example, because it’s very easy to, to see the applications, those labels are not something that a machine comes out of the box and knowing how to do and you have to provide that labeling. The second aspect of feature engineering is called estimation and selection. what features are relevant to the modeling you’re trying to do if you’re building a machine learning model, and you just throw all the data at it, you’re going to have exponential amounts of compute time required in order to be able to understand, like, have the model run correctly. So that’s something again, machine can very easily do that kind of estimation and selection. And that is something that you absolutely should not attempt to do. And

    the third and fourth aspects of the ones where augmented analytics, as Gartner calls it, or automated data science, really start to run into trouble. feature creation, which is a subset really, of extraction, in many ways, is largely a creative task. What features should we create just because you can create day or week or month, should you? Right? If estimation, selection is about winnowing down the features to the ones that are useful for a model, creation is adding new ones and knowing which ones to add and which ones not to add what’s relevant, what’s not relevant. So So very, again, creative tasks, that machines will be able to, at some point, do a sort of a general best practices version, but will be difficult for them to come up with all the possible combinations, at least until has permissions have much larger data sets to work with. And we build those active learning algorithms. The fourth one is one where I think machines have a significant amount of trouble and will for a long time, and that is feature amputation. This is when you look at a data set, knowing what’s missing from it. So recently, I was looking at marketing over coffees, podcast data, and I want to run some machine learning models to figure out what drives things like downloads or episode popularity. And I had Google Analytics data and I had our podcast, download data. And I had search data and I had social media sharing data. And I forgot one, I forgot to get the subscriber data from feed burner,

    which is a pretty big mission clearly was not the was not having enough coffee that day.

    I had to know from my domain experience, so that data set was missing.

    That’s something that machines are will have a very difficult time doing. And yes, for the most valuable, most important models, it is likely that machines will be able to baselines, you know what general best practices, hey, these features should be in a data set like this. But that’s a long way off. And that’s only going to be for the most valuable data sets, if you’re trying to build a a podcast importance machine learning model. That’s not super valuable right now. And so there is no out of the box template that a machine could automatically pick up and run with. So that domain expertise, that knowledge, that experience is very difficult to automate, very costly to automate. And the ROI may not be there. And you would be better off having a data scientist with some generalized broad experiences of what goes into different types of models. Being able to provide that feature invitation, so is augmented analytics, or automated data science gonna put us all out of business now, not for not for a while. And by a while I’m talking, you know, five or 10 years, at a minimum.

    machine learning models and AI models will keep getting better, and they will keep making a lives easier. But there’s still a long way to go. Even with some of the most powerful new tools in the marketplace, like auto AI from IBM, and auto ml from h2o, there’s still a substantial amount of feature engineering that needs to happen up front. And it is as much an art as it is a science, which is frustrating for people like me who like to have processes that you just this is the best practice, just do it. No, the best practice gets you the minimum level of competence for any given task, and then you have to add value on top of it. The good news is, for all of us who are domain experts in our various fields, and occupations are our experience and our perspective. And our ability to think creatively. Still matters and will still matter for quite some time to come. So great question, Michael, very, very detailed question. Important. important to understand these distinctions to why automated data science will not just be a magic push of a button. And I could go on for hours about all the different examples where this fall is down. So but that is the short answer. As always, leave your comments in the comments below please and please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter i’ll talk to you soon. want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems.

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  • 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
    • Audio: Otter.ai
    • Video: YouTube

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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.

    And as always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel newsletter and I’ll talk to you soon want help solving your company’s data analytics and digital marketing problems.

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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.

    If you have any further questions, please leave them in the comments.

    Otherwise, please subscribe to the YouTube channel in the newsletter.

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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: 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 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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