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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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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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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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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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Always implement analytics as part of feature development. Here’s why.

Mixpanel

Product analytics is an ongoing effort. As new features are added to your products, so should new analytics events be added to your codebases. But different companies have different strategies for how and when they update their analytics implementations. Others wait to implement analytics until a later sprint all at once.

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How to add analytics event tracking in SwiftUI (the elegant way)

Mixpanel

So the last thing we want is to step on all of that by needlessly littering our views with event tracking calls to analytics platforms. Here’s how to harness the incredible product insights of an analytics framework like Mixpanel, while keeping your SwiftUI as clean and simple as it was meant to be. They add clutter.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis (Guest essay by Li Jin)

Andrew Chen

No wonder the consumer investment team ended up digging into this trend by doing a market map report — the analysis led by Li Jin and including work from myself, Connie Chan, and others. The report covers things in more detail at the end, but that’s the tldr; from an investment standpoint.