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How to be the go-to engineer for product analytics

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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. From the perspective of many engineering teams, product analytics is treated as a second-class citizen. You can find many more examples here.

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Data thinking vs. product thinking

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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. There’s an enormous amount of ambiguity when it comes to developing products. Here’s how. The wins are not synonymous.

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User friction can sink your app. Here’s what it is and how to avoid it.

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As a product manager or developer, you want to squash user friction from your app. Bad user experience (UX) design is a big source of user friction, but it’s not the whole story. Say you released a new feature that the whole team is excited about. Simply put: User friction can single-handedly sink an app’s usefulness.