What is LUV? How Mixpanel used Mixpanel to define the behaviors that drive customer love
https://mixpanel.com/blog/what-is-luv-how-mixpanel-used-mixpanel-to-define-the-behaviors-that-drive-customer-love/ We started by asking, “What is it that Mixpanel offers that users can’t get elsewhere?” And further yet, “What makes them fall in love and want to keep coming back?” After many whiteboard sessions, data dives within Mixpanel, and snacks both savory and sweet, we landed on a simple...
Shreyas Doshi on choosing, refining, and tracking product metrics
https://mixpanel.com/blog/shreyas-doshi-product-metrics/ To sum up my key advice for those leading their team in choosing the right product metrics: Categorization is effective: Using the 6 metrics categories above will help ensure you’re thinking holistically about user value and business value. Choose a limited group of KMs and LMs: 3-5 key metrics...
Measure value: The foundations of product analytics
https://mixpanel.com/content/guide-to-product-analytics/chapter_1/ What is a value moment? Your product’s value moment is an event, an action, or a series of events and actions that represent the moment that a user found value in your product. **Which metrics should I pick to measure product success? ** Think of your value moment as...
6 steps for leading successful data science teams
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/6-steps-leading-successful-data-science-teams 1. Point data science teams toward the right problem. More generally, to maximize the chance of identifying the right problem, look at what other companies in your industry are doing, especially early adopters of data science. Pay less attention to how they are solving it, as there are usually...
Pairing facts with imagined consequences improves pandemic-related risk perception
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/32/e2100970118 The COVID-19 pandemic reached staggering new peaks during a global resurgence more than a year after the crisis began. Although public health guidelines initially helped to slow the spread of disease, widespread pandemic fatigue and prolonged harm to financial stability and mental well-being contributed to this resurgence. In the...
Unsupervised Online Assessment of Visual Working Memory in 4- to 10-Year-Old Children: Array Size Influences Capacity Estimates and Task Performance
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.692228/full The current project demonstrates the feasibility and utility of unsupervised online testing by incorporating a classic change-detection task that has been well-validated in previous lab-based research. In addition to serving as proof-of-concept, our results demonstrate that large online samples are quick and easy to acquire, facilitating novel research questions...
Recipes for safety in open-domain chatbots
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.07079.pdf https://parl.ai/projects/safety_recipes/ https://parl.ai/, https://github.com/facebookresearch/ParlAI Models trained on large unlabeled corpora of human interactions will learn patterns and mimic behaviors therein, which include offensive or otherwise toxic behavior and unwanted biases. We investigate a variety of methods to mitigate these issues in the context of open-domain generative dialogue models. We introduce...
The relationship between valence and chills in music: A corpus analysis
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20416695211024680 Chills experienced in response to music listening have been linked to both happiness and sadness expressed by music. To investigate these conflicting effects of valence on chills, we conducted a computational analysis on a corpus of 988 tracks previously reported to elicit chills, by comparing them with a control...
The salience of choice fuels independence: Implications for self-perception, cognition, and behavior
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/30/e2021727118 More than ever before, people across the world are exposed to ideas of choice and have opportunities to make choices. What are the consequences of this rapidly expanding exposure to the ideas and practice of choice? The current research investigated an unexamined and potentially powerful consequence of this salience...
COVID-19 and education: The lingering effects of unfinished learning
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-and-social-sector/our-insights/covid-19-and-education-the-lingering-effects-of-unfinished-learning Emma Dorn wrote several posts like this one. https://www.mckinsey.com/our-people/emma-dorn Exhibit 1. Students in majority-Black schools ended the school year six months behind in both math and reading, while students in majority-white schools ended up just four months behind in math and three months behind in reading.Students in predominantly low-income...
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