More Features Does Not Mean Better Product Conversion: Paradoxes in SaaS Business Analytics
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by Manan Shah
1M ago
Converting from free to a paying subscriber is one of many challenges in SaaS product design. The idea behind the free tier in subscription-based products is to, among other things, create a large user base in a low-friction manner so that the product itself has life. Think: LinkedIn, YouTube, etc. Another reason is to allow ..read more
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Love and Principal Component Analysis
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by Manan Shah
1M ago
What’s the equation for love? It’s probably very complicated, very simple, or does not exist, depending on who you ask. But there are a plethora of math equations for the universally recognized symbol for love ❤️ In the word salad that is #datascience, #machinelearning, #ai one of the things that we try to do is ..read more
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Food Palindromes and Dall-E-3: A Photo Gallery
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by Manan Shah
3M ago
What happens when you provide an AI image generator like Dall-E-3 a palindrome as a prompt? Here’s a gallery of images [this is a living post, so check back regularly]. The prompt rule is that the prompt must be an object (or several objects) [so can’t use “go hang a salami, I’m a lasagna hog ..read more
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To Succeed We Need To Burn In, Else We’ll Burn Out
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by Manan Shah
3M ago
We’ve heard many inspirational quotes to get us to take that first action: Whether it’s a New Year’s Resolution or a new quarter resolution or just a new thing you want to do unrelated to a calendar prompt, going from that inspired moment of wanting to be better to actually being better is a challenge ..read more
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But Why Does It Take So Long? Thinking About Toxic Corporate Cultures
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by Manan Shah
3M ago
There are two internal adversaries in every organization that if not managed will grind progress to a halt. These are Mismanaging time is first an operational problem that gives rise to cultural problems in organizations. Other people’s assumptions, managed or not, is first a cultural problem that gives rise to operational problems. Or put another ..read more
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The Confusing Rules For Presentations
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by Manan Shah
6M ago
I’ve kept a mental index of presentation advice I’ve consumed ever since I started putting together slide decks via Hypercard. What remains in my mental log is a mix of good, bad, confusing, and contradicting advice. Here is a tiny glimpse of the stuff I’ve heard over the last 30 years. The overall conclusion is ..read more
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The Quadratic Formula … With Imaginary Numbers
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by Manan Shah
6M ago
If you already know how to solve \(ax^{2} + bx + c = 0\) then this article is for you! Otherwise, it might be too confusing. Ok, we know that the solution set to our quadratic can be found by the quadratic equation: $$x = \frac{-b \pm \sqrt{b^{2}-4ac}}{2a}$$ You can essentially derive this through a ..read more
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Game Design for Collectibles: Players Hate The Geometric Distribution
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by Manan Shah
7M ago
Consider this example: a player has a 33% chance of winning a collectible in your game. If they miss, they can try again. Each try costs some amount in your game’s currency (usually “coins” or “tickets”). We know that, on average, it will take 3 tries before the player wins. But that’s on average. It ..read more
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Three Ways North Star Metrics Screw Up Our Product
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by Manan Shah
7M ago
What happens when the immovable object (median) meets the unstoppable force (user behavior)? Our product fails! Before we get into the math, let’s keep this quote from Eliyahu Goldratt in mind “Tell me how you will measure me and I will tell you how I will behave.” Setting a north star metric for a product ..read more
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Mean and Standard Deviation are Unhelpful Summary Measures for Product Analytics
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by Manan Shah
7M ago
In most high school or undergraduate statistics courses we encounter the “bell curve” or the more technical phrase “normal distribution” with the standard (no pun intended) markings at 1 and 2 standard deviations from the mean. Perhaps you’ve encountered something similar to the image below. A few “facts”, terms, and subscripts are usually beaten into ..read more
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