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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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February 13, 2019
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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February 11, 2019
You Ask, I Answer: How Analytics Indicates When To Change Tactics?
Jennifer asks, “How do I know, based on my analytics, when it’s time to change tactics?”

For questions like this, we look outside of marketing to a discipline that is supremely well-practiced in changing tactics as soon as indicators go sour: financial trading. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of techniques for quickly spotting trends that require a rapid change in tactics. In this video, we’ll look at one of the most time-tested techniques and how to apply it to marketing data.

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In today’s video, Jennifer asks, How do I know based on my analytics when it’s time to change tactics? This is a great question because marketers typically don’t spend a lot of time using their analytics to drive change using the analytics to make decisions on a rapid basis. And so for this we’re going to need to look outside of marketing we’re going to need to look at a different discipline a different set of technologies and techniques that are well tuned and time tested time proven for changing tactics as soon as an indicator or data series go sour what discipline financial trading financial trading the stock market investments and things like that has hundreds if not thousands of techniques were very quickly spotting something’s going wrong or something’s going right in your data. Now, market traders use these techniques to do

Things like buy and sell stocks, hey, if an indicator is going the right way, bye, bye bye. And of course, it’s going the wrong way. sell, sell, sell,

we can apply these same ideas and the same concepts to marketing data. And they actually work better in marketing. The reason why is that the stock market is so volatile. And the stock market has so many confounding variables that these techniques sometimes struggle in the stock market. But if you think about something like your web analytics, there’s no shadow website that’s secretly sending you traffic or things like that, right? It’s just your website, you own it. And and your data is your data.

And our companies are compared to the stock market so small, and so not real time that these mathematical techniques shine brilliantly. So we’re going to look at a technique today called the moving average convergence divergence indicator. That is a mouthful, but what it basically means is that if we were to look at your Google Analytics data, here’s the number of users that have been to my website.

site in the last year if I were to take a short term moving average sec a seven day moving average, smoothing out the the number of users that would give me a trend of an average of the last seven days that rolls that as as time goes on. Now if I were to also take a longer term moving average say like 28 days, four weeks

and plot that out as well I would have a less volatile less choppy line the way the moving average convergence divergence indicator works is that when the short term average crosses over and then is above the long term average that means your site is growing have gotten more traffic on average in the last seven days they have in the last 28 days so great job whatever you’re doing is working the converse is also true either seven day moving average is below your 28 day moving average mean that you’ve gotten less traffic in the last seven days then you have in the last 28 days time change tactics now what’s going

about this is that you don’t need to wait for monthly reports or quarterly reports or anything, you can run this sort of data on a weekly or even a daily basis. If if you’re doing some high stakes stuff to very quickly figure out i think is going in the right direction or the wrong direction.

And because we’re using Google Analytics data, if you wanted to, you could segment this out by things like channels, or sources or mediums. If you wanted to just just measure email, you could specify I just want to track email traffic and see how it’s fluctuating or on a track social media traffic or even just Facebook traffic. I could track that over time. So let’s put this into action. I’ve got my data series here. I’m using the our programming language because it’s easier for me, you can do this and something as simple as Excel. It just takes a long time a long time. It doesn’t scale very well with our you can vacuum in your data and immediately begin using it. So I’m going to run the moving average convergence divergence. And again, I’m going to plot it

It’s going to do its thing and now let’s make this chart bigger

and see that zero line this is the this is a signal line which means that this is a look at how quickly is that moving average convergence differences and fluctuating is it above or below so anytime this line is above zero things are working. My short term average is above my longer term average life is good anytime it’s below this line. I’m bad things happening, need to do something immediately. Of course, there are some things that are seasonal for example, like this is the holidays. No one was on my website during holidays. I don’t blame them. And so I lost a lot of traffic then. But now after the holidays spike back up. And then a few days ago, I was down and now I’m back up. Now if I were to run this tracker every single day. And you could because when you write things in code vacuums, and the data just runs it relatively quickly. The moment this indicator starts to hit zero or start to go below the zero line, you know

Okay, adds more dollars to the ad budget or

change content tactics, maybe run a predictive forecast like what else are people talking about right now that we should be participating in to get this number back above zero.

Now if you are going to have ups and downs in the zeros above and below the zero line that is natural know site perpetually grows up into the right never happens, you will always have fluctuations. What you want to avoid are prolonged periods of time when you’re below that zero line when your longer term average is higher than the short term because that means your site is on a steady decline. So little spikes are okay. Longer term like this going down, not not as, okay,

so this is one indicator as one of many, many that you could use to figure out. Hey, my stuff is growing. My stuff is shrinking. I need to either double down on what tactics I’m already using or I need to change

tactics a great question, Jennifer for look to other disciplines besides marketing to apply proven techniques to your marketing data, and you’ll be surprised at just how rich a toolkit you will have. After just a few months of testing things out and trying them for extracting new insights and telling you that you need to do something differently. As always, please subscribe to the YouTube channel and the newsletter will 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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February 7, 2019
I Ask, You Answer: Buy AI For Marketers, Second Edition
Reversing the script today. I’m asking, and you’ll answer: please buy a copy of AI For Marketers, Second Edition. Why? What’s in it for you? This is a book to help marketers understand machine learning and how it applies to your work. You’ll learn what AI is and isn’t, the kinds of marketing problems it solves, practical, real-world applications of AI in marketing, and how to challenge vendor claims about AI in their products. You won’t need to learn how to code or do complex math – this is a book that focuses on the business and marketing side of AI.

Get the electronic version here.

Get the paper version here (more expensive because it kills tree).

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we’re flipping things around today today instead of you asking and I answer I will ask him what you do will be your answer. And they ask I’m asking you to do is to grab the new book. This is AI for marketers, the second edition. Here’s what’s in it for you. This is a book that was completely rewritten. It originally started as

soon as a blog post actually my friend and Hanley had asked hey can you simplify AI a little bit for average folks and wrote a book a couple years ago and over the holidays went back

was gonna revise it and edit and update it and like whoo so hit select all hit delete and started over this is the started over what’s in it for you is explanations of artificial intelligence specific

Around machine learning for marketers, including five practical applications, though the five major techniques that you can use machine learning to solve for such as untapped data that you’ve just got laying around unclear data where you’re not sure what’s important

and there’s a whole range of problems here but one thing I want to focus on is

helping you understand and ask better questions especially vendors.

A lot of vendors in the marketing space are slapping the AI moniker on everything someone called an AI washing and someone else very acutely called brainwashing what the AI capitalized and

when you look at all their claims when you look at that we’ve got a artificial intelligence tied our product cool what kind

and they would be able to give you a pat answer and says

Explain to me what kinds of problems this thing solves and how it uses machine learning solve it. In this book, you will learn the four major mathematical kinds of problems that machine learning solves it. Regression clustering, dimension reduction in association and categorization.

These four types of problems are problems that marketers run into. So regression problems are mathematically I have a series of numbers that I I know I want is the outcome, what numbers have a relationship to that number. So if you’ve got for example, conversions and Google Analytics, and you want to know all the other things like bounce rate, and time on page number of sessions, which one of those has the strongest mathematical relationship to the thing you care about? That’s a regression problem. In another example, suppose you have unclear sets of data you want see the relationship between types of data points. For example, suppose you are looking at customer data and you’re looking at

recency, frequency and value of customers how do if you were to plot a customer and the on those three dimensional data points and you could see different you would see different groups of clusters of clusters of customers appear in this three dimensional graph, you obviously want to focus first on the high value customers and then start to take the lower value customers and nudge them up to being higher value customers. That’s a Clustering Problem. So in this book, you’ll learn these different major problems on how a is often

there is no code in this book, none zero. And the reason for that is that again, over the holidays, one of the things that occurred to me was that

asking a marketer to become an AI practitioner is kind of like asking a marketer to become a professional chef, right?

You and I don’t need to be professional chefs to know what good food is and to know how to ask for it or know where to go for it. We just know that there are people who, for whom that is their specialty.

We, as the educated consumer can decide what we like and what techniques or chef uses, maybe pin, but we’re not going to open on restaurants. The same is true of artificial intelligence. It is unrealistic, unfair, and, and probably silly to ask a marketer, particularly a really good marketer to become an artificial intelligence specialist. There are people who do that there are people who can take your data and turn it into incredible, impactful results. So let’s let them do that. And let’s instead focus on how can marketers ask better questions to identify who those good people are and who the people who are not as qualified art. That’s not to say you should just abandoned all math by no means, you know, you still should learn how to use things like Google Analytics, but for machine learning and artificial intelligence. The book will instead help you to get an understanding of the landscape. The concepts learn the key concepts learned the big questions to ask and

There is a chapter in here at towards the very end called the down the rabbit hole that if you do want to dig in and and play with these tools you absolutely can. There’s a whole list of courses and books and things that that I recommend that many of which are free that you can use if that’s something you want to do. But

this point which is what I think is a useful one for everyone who reads the book to get is you don’t have to, you don’t have to become a machine learning expert machine learning will find its way into all the products you use. You just have to figure out how to ask to have it applied to the types of problems you’re trying to solve. So the electronic book the book is on a if you go to AI for marketers book.com if you want the paper one the paper one is available on Amazon it is more expensive because you’re doing up an actual tree. So

for environmental purposes just go to go to AI for marketers book.com and and get the slightly less environmentally damaging one.

But instead of us guy answer I ask Please give the book a look. Grab a copy if you want to be able to ask better questions about the use of artificial intelligence in marketing and thank you for your support

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February 5, 2019
You Ask, I Answer: Insider Secrets for Marketing?
Vincent asks, “What’s the one insider secret for marketing you’d never put in a tweet or a YouTube video, the kind of secret sauce that you withhold for everyone but your best clients?”

If the work I do with Trust Insights were cooking, I give away the utensils and the ingredients. Customers pay for the final dishes. I withhold the recipes. That’s where the secret sauce literally is, and something to think about in your own work. In this video, I go into detail about one of my favorite machine learning libraries for text analysis and look at how your secret sauce is impacted by trends like digital transformation. Enjoy!

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In today’s episode, Vincent asked the question What is the one or two secrets that you would never give away in a tweet or YouTube video that insider trading stuff but from marketing, the marketing stuff that all that works really well for the only use for yourself for your best clients

is kind of ISIS. This is a YouTube video but I feel comfortable saying that a lot of the stuff that that we reserve that I reserved for trust insights, best clients and things is all on the machine learning front because for people who are customers of trust insights they are or have demonstrated a willingness or readiness and ability to engage a lot of the machine learning technology that other companies sometimes aren’t ready for. For

A variety of reasons.

And the secret sauce isn’t necessarily the technologies themselves, it’s how you use them. So

the closest analogy that I give to this is, is cooking implements, right? You have frying pans. You have spatula, is you have ingredients and things. And it’s not that you can just use anything because you can’t, you have to use good ingredients, you have to use a minimum quality of pots and pans. A minimum quantity spatula, you know, you can’t have a spatula made of, you know, cheap plastic melts, the moment it touches a patent, you have to have some level of quality, but once you get past that minimum level of quality, it’s all about the recipe and it’s all about the talent of the cook.

The same is true for marketing technology. You do have to have a minimum level of quality for your vendors for the tools that you’re working with. But honestly, most tools these days are pretty good.

You know there’s some crappy ones out there but generally speaking once you get beyond a certain minimum level of quality once you get beyond a certain minimum budget level right

you get what you pay for still very much applies to marketing technology tools then it becomes about you your team your knowledge, your skills, your process and how you do things that becomes your secret sauce so when Vincent asks what’s the the insider secrets the insider secrets are in a lot of cases the code that I write on top of

machine learning tools and software so there’s a really fantastic library for example that Facebook released called fast text fast text is a vector ization library, which means that it looks at that not just how many words are in a piece of text, but then what are the relationships of one word to another? How, how close are they I’m working on a piece right now for me.

Looking at the words that people use interviews their companies

and older approaches, like they’re called bag of words. approaches are okay for at least understand like what’s in the box, but they don’t do as good a job of understanding how words relate to each other. So

there is a difference between a there’s a difference linguistically between

somebody saying, you know, was the example for the other day, I’m trying to remember who said it

between saying something to shit and saying something is the shit right, mild profanity,

and those are very different expressions. And so being able to use sentiment libraries and things

you may not necessarily pick that up. But if you’re using an algorithm that, like vector ization, you can detect those phrases or those clusters of words and phrases together now fast text is a library it

Is the pan if you will, or the spatula, it, how you use it and how you integrate it with the other things in the recipe is where the secret is, if you will vector ization is a very powerful tool but by itself it’s not super helpful you need to change it to other things vector ization gives you a

word and phrase level insights

now what do you do with that then you would use that to use it to help you code text faster so for example, if I have 6000 reviews to go through if I can use vector ization to to

analyze and say, Okay, these are the words and phrases that are key to these specific topics like pay and salary or benefits or culture war management, then

I can use that to tag and an annotate each week.

Review and say like, Hey, this is a review that mentions pay that mentions, benefits and in all the incarnations so

just take a look here at some of the tags music so for benefits terms like health care, health plan maternity, paternity, vacation, charitable retirement, tuition, pension, holidays, voluntary time off, all these are are things that are connected and benefits. And you wouldn’t necessarily

know that just by looking at an older version of a bag of words. But by seeing these are the terms that are most closely related to benefits. You can contact these reviews and and get a much greater look at the text then you could have otherwise so that’s the secret sauce to the extent that there is an is that’s the recipes it’s the recipe book it’s the it’s the cookbook that

is the secret

and that’s

One of the reasons why machine learning I think, is so powerful and so,

so difficult for people to get their heads around, because part of the machine learning process is when you are building models, the model itself then becomes a tool. So imagine there’s no good analogy for this. Because when you’re cooking, you never manufactured like you’re frying pan does it automatically manufacturer spatula, but that’s essentially what’s happening at machine learning. The frying pan is isn’t is being fed enough data and is intelligent enough that it can spawn new tools that help you do stuff even better and even faster. And those models themselves are also part of the secret sauce for companies that are using machine learning in a more advanced way.

There’s a set of laws that bill from also formerly of VMware and Dell. And now I believe he’s over at Hitachi, because the laws of digital transformation and as much of a buzzword is that is there is still value to

Law, I think it’s law number two, which says that

part of digital transformation is the development of these byproducts as you do machine learning, or AI, or whatever. These byproducts become products in and of itself. So as I build this employment model,

that model itself is now a data product of digital product, something that we can go to other customers and reuse the model. We don’t use the customers data. each customer’s data is kept quarantined, but the model it’s built on can be reused over and over again. It’s the same idea as if you built a machine learning model to predict what we’re

what makes coffee trees grow. Well, you could repurpose the model with a new inputs for corn or soybeans or things like that. So that’s the answer. It’s a it’s a

Not an easy answer. And certainly in a YouTube video, not really giving anything away, but encouraging you to figure out in your own data in your own analysis in the software that you build. If you do build software,

what is the process? What are the recipes? What, who are the cooks? And are you leveraging those things with the tools and the data that you already have to build your own secret sauce to create that recipe that only you know how to do and bring it to market, bring it to market, bring those data products to market to say, Yep, this is what we’ve got. That is a differentiator from what everybody else in the market has when you have that it’s a competitive advantage. So great question visit. Interesting question. And it’s one question that if you are not a data driven company, if you are not analytics driven or insights driven or whatever you want to use the term for

it will be harder to compete. He’ll be harder.

compete against your competitors. Because those competitors that do have this capability are very, very difficult to beat because they’ve got an advantage. And so one of the things we urge people in in our machine learning materials is to say get started collecting your data now and building models now because data piles up every day that you wait to start doing stuff is a day that you lose that the ability to get that data whereas every day that you are at least collecting good quality data, you are building assets that you can then reuse later. So as always, 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. This is trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help you

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February 1, 2019
You Ask, I Answer: Affordable Marketing Analytics Tools for Small Businesses?
Julie asks, “What are the best affordable analytics tools for small businesses and solopreneurs?”

In this video, we’ll walk through the Google Marketing Platform as the platform of choice, plus give you a decision to make: time or money.

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In today’s episode, Julie asks, What are the best affordable analytics tools for small businesses and solo printers?

affordable? is a decision affordable is a question and the question is, what do you have more of? Do you have more money? Or do you have more time now for small businesses and solo printers? Believe me, I understand as a co owner of a startup, you have nine but if you had to find one or the other, which can you find more of that will help guide the decision. Now let’s talk about the things that you could be using that are very, very low cost or free for managing the analytics around things like social media, digital marketing, etc. By far the greatest value at mostly zero dollars is the Google marketing platform. So let’s go ahead

bring up this slide here, the Google marketing platform, or I call it the Google Analytics ecosystem. Because a lot of these tools are based on

Google Analytics as a sort of the centerpiece is a nine part framework of how to organize Google’s tools, the free ones that they give you or the ones that are pay as you go for marketing your business and begins Of course with Tag Manager, which is the most essential tool for deploying all sorts of tracking and tagging on your website. If you have any aspirations to use things like Facebook pixels or retargeting or YouTube video analytics, you must be using Tag Manager. Tag Manager is essential. It’s free, and it is the the foundational piece that you need from there, of course, is Google Analytics itself. And there are millions and millions and millions of blog posts about this product. There is the official starter course at analytics Academy with Google. com that I recommend everybody go

Through, it’s the trainings free as well.

And it is just such an incredible, powerful tool that most marketers deeply under utilize. There’s always new stuff to be tried out there. But there’s so many different features that you could learn, spend a lot of time learning and mastering this tool and making it do all sorts of stuff that out of the box, it can’t do. But with the right integrations that can do, for example, suppose you have a coffee shop,

and it’s a brick and mortar coffee shop, you could because people have done this, there are methods for doing this, push weather data temperature, precipitation data into Google Analytics and use that to to calculate and store the data about weather and see how it impacts your business see about coffee, coupon, redemptions, and things like that. You can do all sorts of crazy stuff. The only thing you’re not permitted to do in Google Analytics is store personally identifying information you have to use marketing automation software or CRM for that you may not do that everything else is

is fair game.

The next tool is Google Search Console, which is if you are doing anything at all with search with SEO or search marketing, you must be using Search Console search console is essential for being able to determine how you are doing in Google search engine not shown on here because it’s not part of the ecosystem. But equally important is the Bing Webmaster Tools environment. And you may be saying why being

used as being all actually many, many of these smart assistance use Bing as the back end. So if you have any aspirations to voice search,

you gotta gotta get your site on being as well. The third tool is optimized if you have any aspirations to do a B testing on your website. So this button be blue or red, you need to be using Google Optimize also free deploy as many tests as you like, and test out different stuff on your site. A paid tool is Google surveys. Google surveys allows you to survey the general population of

I think six or seven different countries, mostly Western world countries, so UK, US, Canada, Germany,

remember the rest of them off the top my head, but allows you to run general population surveys asking everything from which logo do you like better to? Have you ever

stayed at a hotel that costs less than $50 a night or whatever, then you can ask all sorts of questions to get market research.

This requires just as much training and learning as Google Analytics. A lot of people think they can just kind of whip off a survey and and it’s easy. It’s the tool is easy. Being a good surveyor is is a separate academic discipline. So at the very least, consult with people who know how to do market research well on the data collection side, Google Sheets and of course, any spreadsheet really is probably where most solo printers start I would recommend taking a good look at Google Sheets can bring a tremendous amount of data into it.

It is web aware from the beginning. So you can use certain advanced functions in it to pull in data from third party sources, which is super handy. You can turn it into kind of a,

a, an all in one If This Then That with a lot of different API’s if you have the technical knowledge to be able to use it in that manner. There are Google’s cloud databases, which if you are an advanced practitioner, we can remember we’re talking about affordable, not talking about easy you can push a lot of data from those third party sites and services into Google’s advanced databases. Those are all pay as you go. Now, most of the usages that small business will use are going to be at the free level because you’re not even going to get close to the first usage level for costs on those things and essential tool for small businesses, especially if you are a marketer and you’re reporting to like the owner is Google Data Studio to be able to make dashboards that summarize data very easily.

And put it in one spot. Google Data Studio is great even here solo printer because you could pull it all and things like AdWords data or with certain connectors, Facebook data on all these different things on to one dashboard and literally make that the homepage of your browser. So you never have to go hunting through a bunch of different applications can have one dashboard that keeps a pulse on your business. And of course, to round out the suite is Google AdWords was now called Google ads. I still call it AdWords because Google Ads people don’t remember what that is.

It is pay per click and display marketing. It is pay as you go. And it is how you roll out everything from retargeting. ads search, ads display ads, native ads, video ads and retargeting ads within the Google ecosystem. So all of this is part of the analytics ecosystem. All of these are great, affordable tools for analytics for small businesses and solo printers. Now, there are a few others I mentioned that are not in the Google marketing platform that are worth discussing. If you want to do advanced visualization and you don’t mind that

The data is made public

Tablo public is a great way to do that you can do all sorts of analysis and visualize complex data very, very quickly, and it is free for the public addition. The monthly edition itself, for private data is not bad. It’s like 35 bucks a month for the personal desktop edition. But it is a subscription.

And then if again, if you have time, but not money, the our programming language and its interface our studio is hands down the the greatest secret weapon that you could use for your business. It is difficult to use it is it is not user friendly. It is a programming language. But if you want to be able to do things like advanced statistics, descriptive analytics and then machine learning and AI R is probably one of the best languages so to our or Python. I happen to lean towards our personally because

I like its programming style better. But this is a good one.

Round up of the affordable and or free analytics tools

I would encourage you to squeeze as much juice out of these as possible particularly the Google marketing platform before you go investing a lot of money into other tools see if what you’re trying to do can be done within the Google marketing platform first and yes there are some things that it’s not going to be able to do social media monitoring for example is not something that is going to be very good at you could look at a tool like Agoura pulse for that for that social media landscape monitoring for accounts that are not yours you should look at a tool like talk walk for the for that but for your own stuff. And for the you know, top to middle and and middle part of the funnel. Google the Google marketing platform is where you should spend a lot of your time and frankly should be the database of record for most small businesses except for anything that contains personally identifiable information for

Sales and CRM. Honestly. For most small businesses, the free version of HubSpot is pretty darn good. So it’s worth looking into. Thanks for the question, Julie. It’s a great question. If you have follow up questions, please leave them in the comments. And of course, subscribe to the YouTube channel. In the newsletter I’ll talk to you soon. Take care 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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January 30, 2019
You Ask, I Answer: Using SEO Data for Social Media?
Emma asks, “How can you use SEO data for social media?”

In this video walkthrough, we’ll examine two different types of keyword analysis to show how SEO data can guide social media content creation, focusing on a landscape analysis and a keyword analysis of competitors to know what your audience cares about most – and create content to serve that need.

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In today’s episode asks, How can we use

SEO data for social media purposes? is a really good question. Because one of the things that social media marketers tend to do wrong is they spend too much time talking about themselves,

the company the brand, hey, check out our cool this or download our new this whatever the case may be

it’s very

publisher centric as opposed to being tuned into what your audience wants, what your audience cares about.

And that’s where search data in particular is especially useful. Because search data tells us or hints to us, I should say, because it doesn’t outright tell us in a lot of cases, what our audience

wants to know more about.

Generally speaking, generally speaking, people don’t spend a whole lot of time just search for things randomly, for no reason at all. There’s usually some form of content, you search for a SAS based server appliance. Or you search for a recipe for dairy free chicken noodle soup or any of these things you search for the purpose of getting information. And if we are clever marketers,

we will align our social media content with our search content with our search strategy. If we know what people want, we can create content around that and help them better understand

Ah, ok, this brand is creating stuff that

it knows I want. And if you really, really clever, you’ll do it at the right time. But that’s for another episode. So let’s take a look at this. Emma works at a small startup, I think of the UK called the spice gal and they make gluten free spices. So the first thing to do is to look for what when someone types the word gluten free spice into a search engine,

what are the

associated terms that

are included in that search words and phrases that use that phrase like gluten free spices or gluten free

in and I’m using

I’m using some clustering software from the programming

language are but most

SEO tools. Paid SEO tools will do this sort of thing.

Not quite as mathematically rigorous, but you can do the same general visualization things like

Excel,

you will need an SEO tool of some kind. So

I do recommend that and have

an affiliate link to sem rush, which is a great tool. Also RF spy, foo Mas, and even Neil Patel. Uber suggests all those are fine tools to use, because what you’re after is the data.

So let’s take a look here on the screen and a mouse around here.

This when I typed in gluten free spices. And I said to the SEO tool, tell me

what other phrases use or what other phrases associated with us it’s about it spits out a list that turned into a graph. Now on the vertical axis, this is a scaled meetings 00 to 100 are ordered

rank

of the number of clicks higher means this this search phrase gets more clicks, and then left to right. The further you go, the more competitive it is meaning there’s many, many more people trying to rank for those terms.

When it comes to creating social media content. It’s okay that there’s a lot of competition because you’re not going to try and rank on your Instagram channel, you better not because that’s not you don’t own Instagram.

So you would create content for your website,

you over here in the low competition area. top left corner

highlight number of clicks, relatively low competition,

you create your social media content, ideally in the upper right hand corner. But the right hand side in general,

more difficulty means there’s more content about it, which is a proxy for in some ways for for knowing what the broad topics are. So here in this landscape analysis, we see I’m assuming Penzias a brand i don’t know i don’t have domain expertise. So you do need to do this with domain expertise. But we do see a bunch of terms here like is powdered sugar gluten free simply organic spices McCormick, for he sees any what contains gluten, what foods contain gluten so already just digging in very, very quickly, I can see there are some big broad topics that Emma could use to talk about things like if she’s marketing, gluten free spices, what foods contain gluten or surprising foods that you didn’t know contain gluten there’s some easy content ideas here but I do see two competitors pansy spices and

McCormick these are these are our large brands. And what we want want to know next is what are they getting attention for? What are they getting rank or search results for that we can also use

our social media content to go after. So if we use what’s called a content gap

and look at what these other sites ranked for.

We’re going to find a pretty common trend. The pretty common trend is not the spices themselves, but recipes recipe after recipe after recipe, of course, using the product,

green bean casserole,

French toast, Easter

eggs, a garden masala, which is

Indian food, I believe I don’t eat any food. But

there are a whole bunch of you know, beer can check and pepper steak. So clearly the content strategy, particularly content strategy that’s working for these competitors is all around recipes. Notice what’s missing here, though, what’s missing is that these are all broad recipe terms. There’s no mention of gluten free. So there is a content opportunity

for me in this case, to take these popular terms like gingerbread house or beer can chicken or green bean casserole and do gluten

free specific terms that

of course, use her spices and her spice marketing to attract people who were looking for the most popular recipes. But gluten free versions. So this is how you use search data to inform your social media strategy. New Look at what

is popular what the audience wants,

integrate content about around it for your social channels. Now

double dip

once you create the content for social media channels, for your Instagram stories for your Facebook stories, whatever. Don’t just throw it out there and hope it does well. Put it on your website, put it on your website, because you’re making in the content anyway,

put it on your website with the recipes using great search marketing techniques. So that your social media content gets more life when someone looks for bourbon balls, for example, or stir fry vegetables, or

gingerbread houses. velvet, red velvet cupcakes,

they should be they should be able to find you on

Instagram if they’ve

just looked for a hashtag, something like that. But they should really be

able to find you on

search results on Google. And if you’re already doing stuff like Instagram stories and photo series and stuff like that. Guess what, it’s not a whole lot of extra work to turn that into a video. Then you can put it on YouTube, which is the second largest search engine in the world. And so you could have a quick walkthrough of what spices what gluten free spices should you use for beer can chicken or for Dijon mustard or for banana catch

up. That sounds terrible

that goes on YouTube, which is yet another search engine. And YouTube has a lot more

discovery. People will

go on YouTube get lost

on a click whole of all these different things that could be finding and you want yourself in that mix as well.

So

to wrap up search data from paid SEO tools will give you a sense of the landscape. And it will give you a sense of what the audience cares about most once you’ve got that start doing competitive analysis. What are all the major big competitors, the aspirational

competitors? What are they ranking for? And how can you use those ideas to generate content on social media that you can then repurpose for your website for your YouTube channel for your podcast. Whatever the cases

by focusing on the audience, you’ll focus on what they need, what they want, what they care about, and you’ll avoid the mistake of mess of messaging on social media about all about only you instead, you create content that the audience

desperately wants as evidenced by the search volume

and you’ll make them happy and you’ll make your brand more popular. So great question, very informative question because it shows you the necessity of integrating different channels together.

Search and content

and social and video should not be separate in your company. They should all be rowing in the same direction should all be part of an integrated strategy. So thanks for the question. Please leave any additional questions you have in the comments and 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. This is trust insights.ai today and let us know how we can help

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January 29, 2019
Learn How to Scale Social Media at the HELLO Conference
I’ll be speaking at the HELLO Conference the week after Social Media Marketing World, so if you can’t make the journey to San Diego, come spend the day with myself, Katie Robbert, Mark Schaefer, and many others in New Jersey. I’ll be talking about scaling social media; we marketers have a limited number of hours in every day. What could we do to make the most of that time?

I’ll show you how I scale both my personal social media and how Trust Insights does it, using automation, AI & machine learning, and data science, in some never-before-seen technology that’s accessible to anyone with a very modest budget and open-source technical expertise. Watch the video for a sneak preview.

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Do you feel like you get lost at big conferences

I sometimes do. Where there’s so many people to meet and talk to and and get to know and so many sessions to attend

that you get a lot of experience.

Don’t get me wrong. Some of these big conferences are amazing for what you can learn and from the networking you can do, but sometimes you don’t want something a little smaller. Sometimes you want something that where you could actually get to meet everybody at the event.

One of these is the helo conference it’s going to be in New Jersey March 28 2019

I’m going to be speaking at

Katie Rivera from Trusted Sites will be speaking at Mark Schaefer will be speaking at it, and it’s going to be one of those great events that is limited to about 100

ish people. So can’t have, you know,

10 or 20 or 30 or 50,000 people just trying and navigate your way around, you actually be able to meet everyone who’s going to be attending the event

for what I’m going to be sharing at the event, we’re going to do something a little different. Most of what I’ve been talking about lately has been sort of the why and the what of artificial intelligence and machine learning for marketing purposes, for business purposes, how it’s going to impact your business. And I want to first

an event like this,

where there’s a chance to sit down with people and actually talk to them and ask questions, interact with people

want to do something a little bit different. So we’re going to talk about

AI machine learning automation, process automation and data science. But

focusing a little bit more on some specific ideas for implementation that you can use that at this point, I’m going to assume you’re conceptually bought into the idea that

machine learning and process automation are good things, but how do you apply them on a practical level, particularly to digital marketing and social

media. So let’s look at just a sort of a hint or a teaser of one example. And with the promise that

if you attend the helo conference, we can dig into some of the more some of the details and some other ways that you can adapt this technology to your specific

use cases. One thing that I find is a used to be very time consuming, what social media was

trying to figure out what to share, because you don’t want to just share yourself, that’s not exciting, and nobody likes it.

So you have to share other stuff. But one of the problems with sharing other stuff is that you it’s very difficult to measure it. And it’s also very difficult to curated effectively. So one of the things we did at trust insights was

because we’re a startup and we want to spend our vast majority of our hours

serving clients and serving customers and not just, you know,

reading through articles,

built some software that ingests blog feeds from reading people, logs, analyzes them

for key topics and for things like click through as measured by open API’s like Billy and then creates social ready posts that you can load in batch

to services like a Gora pulse or buffer and things like that. So this is an example of what the interface looks like. It’s not It’s not the world’s best interface it this is a sequel database

and income the articles there scored by the by certain specific topics. Is this article about things like Google, or is it about social media was about AI? Or is it about IBM is about women in technology? Is it about leadership and strategy? Once we know what an article is about, we score it and if the The score is above a certain threshold, we then feed it to a link shortener. In this case, the bitly link shortener using link retargeting so this is a concept that not a lot of folks use link retargeting allows you to not only track the links

that you share on social media, but then also pixel, the people who click on those links and be able to show them ads later. This is a very valuable thing to do, because it now takes all that curation and helps you derive value from do I monetize it.

If you know, for example, that the links that you share about health care or b2b or b2c are resonating with your audience. You can then

target those audiences with advertising that says, hey,

here’s a new b2b, white paper or a new healthcare white paper or

video on YouTube or whatever goals you wanted to achieve with your social media marketing.

You will

do that with link retargeting. So if I flip over to my my retargeting system here, this is a system I use called stack adapt. I’ll put a link in the show notes if you go to trust the insights.ai slash stack African

and more about the service.

You can see I’ve got some retargeting audiences for healthcare links for b2c links for b2b links.

And the number of people that have clicked on those links the last click on the b2b link was four hours ago on a be a ceiling was a an hour ago, and this about 9000 people from my social media in those audiences.

Now that’s for social media, specifically people who are clicking on links I share on Twitter, on Facebook, on LinkedIn,

not really on Google Plus and

by tracking people

who go outbound who click on somebody else’s content not on my content on somebody else’s content like articles from the washington post or Digital Trends or Scientific American

I know where people are going and I know

what’s of interest and I know I can target folks with advertising regardless of whether they follow me because if an influencer shares a post I publish I can

as long as I use the link shortener

I can track the clicks on their stuff so you it’s a way to to help expand your reach and you’re the value of influencer marketing by saying hey, this influencer shared this link but anyone who from the influence of hauntings or clicks on that link is enrolled in our inner retargeting audience. So

this is a very

quick glance

at what you could learn at the Hello conference. If you attend. Now, I would encourage you and there’s a there are two ticket levels. There’s an early bird level for just general sessions. And there’s a VIP breakfast which is is more expensive, but you get a chance to sit down with people like Mark and and people like me and

talk through these very specific situations, talk through ways to apply these technologies to your business and use cases. And we can demo in a little more detail how these things work. So I hope you get a chance to attend the helo conference. It’s going to be in New Jersey. So it is literally a stone’s throw from New York City probably about 25 minutes driving time from New York as a live in New Jersey. So everything’s 25 minutes from something

and it’ll be a march 20 2019.

Hope to see you there

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January 22, 2019
You Ask, I Answer: Creativity and Solving Data Problems?
Stephan asks, “Do you create space for creativity and intuition to help uncover new ways to use data?”

This is a fantastic question; in many cases, the creativity doesn’t come from the data, but from knowledge of our tools. There’s a martial arts exercise I was taught years ago that applies well here for solving this particular problem. Learn what the exercise is and how to apply it to marketing problems of all kinds.

You Ask, I Answer: Creativity and Solving Data Problems?
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In today’s episode, Stephen asks, do you create space for creativity and intuition to help uncover new ways to use data? This is a fantastic question. Because in many cases, it’s not going to be the data that you need to be creative about. Sometimes it is. But mostly that creativity comes from the knowledge of our tools and how to use them. A lot of times, we will learn a tool, and we will learn a very narrow application for that tool. But we will not expand our minds or our

knowledge of how that tool can be applied. So a very simple cooking example. But you have a spatula, and you think his bachelor’s just scooping this. Well, what else can you do with the spatula, you can compress things with it. You can kind of stir things with it. There’s a lot of different ways to use that tool

number of years ago, but Malmstrom was a martial arts teacher in in the tradition I practice actually taught us at a seminar, he said, we’re going to expand our knowledge of our basic toolkit. And instead of loading more static techniques, like do this technique, do this technique.

He said, what you’re going to do is going to limit what you can do to make yourself more creative. So he said, so you’re only allowed to use your right hand and you’re only allowed to have it out in front of, you can’t do anything else. No blocks, no punches, no,

no kicking, no fancy footwork, just this position with your right hand and point you get created a real fast about like how that what all the different ways you can use this technique, this very basic tool to protect yourself to stymie an opponent to create some or take space away. And we can use this exact same exercise for marketing problems for data problems for analytics problems. Suppose you have something like

logistic regression, which is a statistical technique either use something is or is not in a spectrum from zero to one, when you’re running this analysis. Well, what are the different situations you can use logistic regression or linear regression or random forest or

eigenvectors? What are all the different ways that you can use this technique? How, what kinds of data can you apply to? What kinds of data can’t do apply to? Can you transform the data back Stevens question? Do you transform the data so that you can use the technique with it?

Many of these techniques, these statistical, mathematical and analytical techniques,

many of them are having lots of flexibility to them, but they require the data to be in a certain format. So, can you transform your data to make the technique usable? These techniques all answer very specific questions. regression, what’s the relationship with something to something

random forest? What are the contributing factors that lead to something? Or can you develop a predictive model for something a remote time series forecasting? How can you forecast with accuracy something, the likelihood of something happening again,

time series forecasting is a really good example. What are all the different things you can forecast with time? If you take just tweets, right? Take a whole bunch of tweets.

What can you forecast? Well, you can forecast the frequency of tweets, you could extract sentiment, you could extract word count, you could extract sentence count, you could extract nouns, verbs, parts of speech, you could extract emoji but by thinking about the tool and all the different ways you can use the tool it will unlock that creativity and that intuition or train that intuition for using data in new ways using your tools so I would recommend that you do that with every tool you have access to there is a tremendous amount of flexibility and power even something as simple as a spreadsheet software you know look at all those menus in Excel What are they all do what are the techniques that that each promises that’s important look at Google Analytics what are the different ways that you can use Analytics tracking Did you know that you can load data into Google Analytics for example I worked with a company a number of years ago that

loaded weather data they wanted to see did certain types of weather lead to people checking out directions to their store because the directions pages on the website so by learning these techniques learning these tools now before you can be creative and very the tool you have to learn how to use the tool properly and that’s where it again martial arts there’s the in the Japanese martial arts is a structure called shoe hottie which means learn the basic master the basic very basic learn all the variations which you can use that and then eventually get rid of being stuck in just those use cases, find new use cases be flexible with your tools. The same is true in marketing, learn your tools really well take all the trainings and courses and tutorials that you can learn the variations what are the different situations I can apply these the different parts of this tool to and then eventually transcend it to by Stephen calls that intuition of knowing just how to solve it and this will take you time it will take a long time in the martial arts you really start to get the hang of it probably around the 20 year mark now marketing tools are a little different because they they change so much but every user can use that same framework every time Google Analytics pushes out a new feature for example or your your sales CRM push that new feature learn that feature really well learn everything you can about it, practice using it then figure out all the variations for it and then very and then leave it behind in the sense of just have it be part of your mental toolkit of all the things that are possible with the software so great question it’s kind of an abstract question it’s not a concrete thing but

use that framework shoe hottie learn it variant and and transcend the limitations of it for any marketing tool. Any statistical any math tool, even any art tool or creative tool. It’s all the same because that’s how we as humans learn best. As always, please leave your comments below and subscribe to the YouTube channel. The newsletter I’ll talk to you soon. Take care want help solving your

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January 21, 2019
The Impact of Government Shutdown on Marketing Data
It’s difficult to understate how disruptive the shutdown is to everyone, not just the people who directly work for Uncle Sam, or just how long the aftereffects will last.

Before I say anything else, I want to make clear that the people who have been forced against their will to work for free for nearly a month are and should be our first priority.

Now, that said, what insidious ways will this shutdown affect your marketing analytics?

What Government Data Is Missing

The data shutdown will have far-reaching impact on nearly every model and framework used to forecast business, economic, social, and demographic data.

As of the time of this writing, almost a month of economic data is missing; some of it can never be retroactively collected. (Example: Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis holiday shopper interviews will remain permanently missing). In a world powered by data, a month-long chunk of data missing is a big, big deal.
- Your 401k managers use data like this to model and inform what’s in your portfolio.
- Your CMO’s strategy reports from major consulting firms draw heavily on this kind of data.
- Your CFO’s decisions about how and where to manage a firm’s money is built in part on this data.
Imagine for a minute that you turned off Google Analytics for a month. How much would that impact your marketing reporting – not just now, but for months and years to come. Every year-over-year comparison for the next 2-3 years will have an asterisk next to it. Now extend that to data everywhere and you get a sense of how bad any shutdown is.

Every industry deals with government data in some form. Here’s a partial list, via Yahoo Finance:

Many government reports will likely be affected. This includes the January jobs report, future job reports, factory orders, inflation data, and productivity reports.

The January jobs report “may show an artificially high unemployment rate and low unemployment figure” because many of these federal employees could be counted as unemployed. This would raise the U.S. unemployment rate by 0.2%, according to the Associated Press.

With the Census Bureau shut down, future job reports may not be released. The USDA can’t release farming data and although CPI data was released on Jan. 11, the Fed’s preferred inflation was not.

Other data releases affected by the shutdown include those of the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and the Economic Research Service.

Go to a government site like Data.gov, long a preferred provider of data for machine learning and data science:

Even functioning data sources like the St. Louis Federal Reserve’s data system, FRED, has large swaths of missing data. Every model of the economy used by financial technology and investment firms will have massive data quality challenges for the next two years until we have continuous data again year over year. Some of it could be inferred, but still requires annotation to ensure our models deal with the shutdown.

How To Handle Missing Government Data from the Shutdown

So, what should you do? For the present day at time of writing, if you’re an eligible voter, nag the heck out of your elected officials to turn the government back on.

Annotate all your data that relies or uses government data in any way that this shutdown period should be excluded from forecasts until what back data is available is filled in. Look hard at other credible third party data is available from non-government sources ranging from Google to the United Nations and high-integrity, fully-functioning foreign governments. (The EU, Canada, etc.) This will be especially important if you’re trying to infer or impute unrecoverable missing data. Double down on your first-party data as well; you should be collecting, cleaning, and analyzing your internal data most of all.

If your company does business in sectors affected by the shutdown, such as agriculture, be sure to account for the shutdown in your models. Even if data is available, it will be skewed during and after the shutdown until the government catches up.

For future readers, meaning people who find this post after the shutdown ends, note the dates of any models or forecasts beginning December 22, 2018 until the end of the shutdown and consider having multiple parallel data series to infer or impute any missing information. Also know that for the months after the shutdown, datasets from the US government will be in flux as employees catch up on back tasks.

Finally, know that some models will just break. Anyone doing predictive analytics with government data already knows that black swan events can throw a wrench into models. This shutdown, the longest ever, is a giant black swan that we couldn’t have predicted and can’t model for; in building models, we may just have to stop using government data for some specific tasks until we are certain the government is stable again and we have enough historical data to ignore this shutdown’s data gap.

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January 17, 2019

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