Behavioral Insights #27: good news for Data Analysts
Behavioral Insights.
Hello , here are a couple of interesting links I have been reading recently.
News & opinions
Good news for all Data Analysts out there ... according to LinkedIn's Top Skills of 2016, important skills are 'Statistical analysis and data mining' and 'data presentation'. Companies need people who can analyse data and make it easy for people to understand.
*|INTERESTED:Would you also like insights in Dutch?:Yes please / ja graag|*Volgens Actal, het Adviescollege toetsing regeldruk (ik wist ook niet dat het bestond), moeten we ‘stoppen met irritante cookiemeldingen’. Althans dat staat in een advies aan Minister Kamp.*|END:INTERESTED|*
Analytics & experimentation
UX Research: "overly strict password rules can be a key roadblock to the checkout completion rate" - the Baymard Institute found an 18% Abandonment Rate.
Robert Kosara from Tableau has been 'Reexamining What We Think We Know About Visualization' - great article (pdf) for everyone interested in data visualization
Google announced Google Survey 360. With this new product in the Google Analytics 360 Suite it is possible to tie together brand and performance metrics.
Data points
Slack: 4 million daily active users
*|INTERESTED:Would you also like insights in Dutch?:Yes please / ja graag|*Online betalen: aandeel iDeal nog steeds 56%, maar nieuwe achteraf betaalmethoden winnen langzaam terrein*|END:INTERESTED|*
That's it for this week. Have a good one!
"If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein