Analyticstime!

If you struggle to legitimize analytics within your organization, you can't touch this video for a powerful explanation of the impact of analytics:

MC Hammer at the AlwaysOn/STVP Summit at Stanford, "Music Artists Go Entrepreneurial." Around minute 24:00.

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August 20, 2008
Rob said:

Ah, but has it made his music any better? Is he more successful in selling his records? This table here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MC_Hammer#Singles would suggest probably not.

Then again, maybe if he'd had a simple chart of income versus expenditure with projected surplus (or deficit) he could have avoided blowing $30m and becoming a bankrupt with $16m in debts.


August 26, 2008
Daniel Waisberg said:

This is hilarious! I do think people can learn a lot from this video: it is concise, it shows that Analytics can be used anywhere, and it is amusing. I believe he represents us, Web Analysts, very respectfully :-)


September 4, 2008
Eric said:

Hammer has made more money is web technologies than he ever did in the 80's with his music. He has co-founded a company called dancejam.com which is doing quite well. He is not looking to make HIS music any better.


September 7, 2008
The Dude said:

Quoting: "Umm... I don' think the words of a washed-up hip-hop artist, talking over a montage of sexist video clips, would really turn the tide at my organization. I'm pretty sure the execs here don't view Hammer as a role model."

DUDE! Relax!!!! *smh* the clip was hilarious ... great post Juice ... and it sounds like he's no fool in terms of analytics.


November 8, 2008
Gary said:

The point here, from my viewpoint, is that if your marketing leading insurance/software/financial/retail/manufacturing/... company isn't taking analytics seriously, but MC Hammer is, then just how out of touch are you?

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saraw1 said:

I love your site and I LOVE your work! This is amazing stuff. BTW, I know the ZIP skinny link does not refer to your work, but since you asked for comments, I'd like to point out that zip codes are not a meaningful unit for socio-demo-geographic analysis. They were developed for the sole purpose of facilitating mail delivery. For the aforementioned analysis, the US Census's categories are far better.

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