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The Citizen Analyst Manifesto, Part 2: Curious

Shift Communications

See a meme on Facebook or a viral article? You question it, and want to see the data. You want to download the data and do your own analysis. To be truly data-driven, to embrace the citizen analyst movement, may require you to face difficult truths about yourself and the causes you care about. Christopher S.

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The Citizen Analyst Manifesto, Part 2: Curious

Shift Communications

See a meme on Facebook or a viral article? You question it, and want to see the data. You want to download the data and do your own analysis. To be truly data-driven, to embrace the citizen analyst movement, may require you to face difficult truths about yourself and the causes you care about. Christopher S.

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SHIFT Archives: The Best of Q2 2015

Shift Communications

Will a blog post go viral? It’s certainly possible, using predictive analytics, to get a rough sense of what might work and what might not work, but few companies have access to that much technology and expertise. Is a tweet less or more likely to work? Predicting the future is difficult, expensive work.

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BuzzFeed Pound and the Future of Data-Driven Decisions

Shift Communications

Data is the way to determine what works, what spreads, what stories will be shared and in what ways. Marketers have long tried to determine what makes something go viral. What BuzzFeed’s Pound technology shows is what happens as content spreads across social networks. Account Manager, Marketing Technology.

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