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

Mixpanel

The good news is that many technical quirks tend to follow certain patterns that can be easily spotted—even by non-engineers. Here are four technical hiccups associated with corrupt event tracking data, how to spot them, and what to do about them. So how can you tell as a non-technical individual if this data is real or a stutter.

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What We Learned About Building Products People Love in 2016

Mind the Product

Suzie’s post both educates and entertains and is full of practical advice and, as Suzie says, its point is “to empower you and inform you about technical practices that are meant to be business-relevant”. This opens up and demystifies these practices with definitions, examples, easy to understand diagrams, and suggestions for further reading.

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

The Product Coalition

I saw the needs for UX research but we didn’t have a UI/UX team. I then convinced the team to hire a part-time UX consultant to help me with user research. A friend of mine who also worked for an early-stage startup once told me “Think of yourself as the cofounder of the company, how will you make your decisions differently?”

Startups 101
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Data thinking vs. product thinking

Mixpanel

UX design, branding, feature-set, nuanced differences in user perspectives, and a million other variables can impact (with varying levels of influence) whether our products get used or ignored. Here’s how. Understand the role of data with nuance. There’s an enormous amount of ambiguity when it comes to developing products.

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Mobile app event tracking: Telling the story of how your app works (or doesn’t work)

Mixpanel

He’s been developing apps for almost as long as the App Store has existed—wearing every hat from full-time engineer to product manager, UX designer, founder, content creator, and technical cofounder. Gain insights into how best to convert, engage, and retain your users with Mixpanel’s powerful product analytics.

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

Mixpanel

And that makes it possible to get into all the benefits of a sophisticated platform like Mixpanel with little technical risk—even if for only a trial run and/or to use it alongside other tools like GA. Here’s how you (or your app developer team) can do it. As a matter of principle, abstract-away your dependencies.

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How to be the go-to engineer for product analytics

Mixpanel

The point is that some of these might be catchable by non-technical team members whose job it is to analyze the data, but a lot of cases could only ever be noticed by someone who understands how the implementation actually works on a technical level: an engineer like yourself. Keep the product folks technically up-to-date.