Behavioral Insights: can you trust your data? 📉

Behavioral Insights.

👋 Hi, and welcome to week 11. In this week's newsletter articles on data quality, server-side A/B testing, breakthrough technologies and coronavirus.

1. What happens when you can't trust your data? 📉
"The reason this problem exists is that the people who are dependent upon this data and the ones responsible for capturing it live in their own worlds." Read the article

2. Data discrepancies in Google Analytics
This blog post from CXL describes what can go wrong, why, and how to fix it. Read the article

3. Client-side vs server-side A/B testing
In this blog post from Convert.com they go over how client-side testing differs from server-side testing and the pros and cons of each. Read the article

4. 10 breakthrough technologies
In the new edition of MIT Technological Review they share a list of 10 breakthrough technologies in 2020, including 'Tiny AI' and 'Differential privacy'. Read the article

5. Why we don't wash our hands
Why don't we do it, even if we know it can prevent a virus from spreading. This article takes a perspective from behavioral science. Read the article

6. Practice looking critically at data
Math teacher Patrick Honner helps students practice looking critically at data in the news. This  is especially relevant now with the coronavirus outbreak. Read the article

7. Spread of coronavirus visualized
Datawrapper created some charts, maps, and tables that show the latest numbers about the coronavirus. They also explain what they considered while creating these visualizations.

See you next week!
— Kevin

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