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Common technical hiccups in your product analytics that are easy to spot

Mixpanel

You can spend all the time in the world devising a thoughtful, nuanced analytics strategy for your product analytics, but if your event tracking isn’t set up behind the scenes just how you need it, some (or all) of your data might be rendered far less helpful than you’d like. As they say—garbage in, garbage out.

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Why it’s never too early to add product analytics to your app

Mixpanel

implementing product analytics) is something that can wait until your team is bigger, until you have more users, or until you have more money. But, speaking from experience, I can ensure you that implementing product analytics from the go can be well worth it. With product analytics, you can know the difference. Here’s why.

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How to be the go-to engineer for product analytics

Mixpanel

One of those niches that’s become more valuable in recent years: product analytics. As data-driven product development continues to balloon in popularity, so does the need for accurate and sophisticated implementation of analytics tracking in software products. Spearhead a slick analytics implementation.

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What We Learned About Building Products People Love in 2016

Mind the Product

Was it insight, opinion, guidance on how to get the best out of colleagues or to make your voice heard, career advice, best practices, or something more fundamental? It’s important to understand that we who are building these products and services know things that our users don’t. Practical Advice on Tools and Methodologies.

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My Biggest Takeaways?—?Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup

The Product Coalition

He considered product managers to be on a spectrum from “librarian” who is focused on facilitating communication and coordination to “poet” who formulates product strategy based on customer insights. Meanwhile, I worked with people ops to draft job descriptions and hire data collection specialists.

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Data thinking vs. product thinking

Mixpanel

Data has fundamentally changed how we design and develop products, but there’s a difference between simply reacting to data points and applying the level of analytic rigor needed to yield meaningful results. Understand the role of data with nuance. That’s where data comes in. Here’s how.

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A modular approach for integrating an analytics platform (like Mixpanel) into your iOS app

Mixpanel

Mixpanel is the gold standard for iOS app analytics. Integrating new frameworks can be work, not to mention risky for introducing bugs (especially if you’re already invested in some other analytics tool like Google Analytics). But this is especially true when it comes to tracking user events for analytics purposes.