Your weekly overview of interesting reads you might have missed + events and jobs for the experimental mind (that’s you). Everything is handpicked by me, so you don’t have to.
In this week’s newsletter:
- what we can learn from Twitter
- playing around with ChatGPT
- articles on North Star frameworks, CUPED, causal inference and more
- New jobs like: CRO Consultant at Conversion
- and … a way to schedule a call with to ask me anything
Have great week!
* What we can learn from Twitter
Recruiter Mimi VerLoren van Themaat from Blooming People reflects on what’s happening at Twitter. Most of the things are counter to what job seekers are looking for.
🚀 Job opportunities
This week’s featured roles:
- 🆕 CRO Consultant at Conversion (London, United Kingdom)
- 🆕 Product Manager Experimentation at LaunchDarkly (USA)
- Experimentation Platform Advocate at Apple (Raleigh, USA)
- Sr. CRO Manager at IU Internationale Hochschule (remote or Hamburg, Germany)
- CRO Specialist at viaBovag (Utrecht, Netherlands)
More on ExperimentationJobs.com! Hiring? Submit here
🔎 Interesting reads you probably missed
John Cutler on North Star frameworks — twitter.com
“Having done 100s of North Star framework workshops at @Amplitude_HQ, … 95% of NSMs fit in one of the following categories Count of: Humans, Accounts, Objects, Actions, Connections”
Craig Sexauer, Data Scientist at Statsig, does a deep dive into CUPED: Why it was invented, how it works, and how to use CUPED to run experiments faster and with less bias.
Standardizing metrics for product analytics
Use the new Amplitude Metrics feature to improve the quality of analysis in Amplitude with new ways to create, save and standardize metrics.
Using Causal ML instead of A/B Testing
Samuele Mazzanti: Counterfactual questions are among the most important topics in business. I hear companies asking this kind of questions all the time. These problems are usually addressed through A/B testing…
CausalPy: causal inference for quasi-experiments
This is a new open source python package:
CausalPy aims to have a broad applicability to making causal claims across a range of quasi-experimental settings.
Eppo launches their unified feature flagging platform
With feature flagging, Eppo becomes the first experimentation tool that lets teams operate in a variety of ways.
Ryan Lucht on ‘what is experimentation?’
What is “experimentation” in the marketing universe? Is it a growth tactic? A channel? A process? It should be your leadership methodology.
📅 Upcoming events
Last event of the year: Experimentation Elite on December 8 in London, United Kingdom.
Events planned for January 2023:
- 30 Jan: Accelerating Innovation with A/B Testing (virtual)
- 31 Jan – 4 Feb: SUPERWEEK (Hungary)
All experimentation conferences & events 2023
Although many events still need to be confirmed, you can already start planning your year. Let me know if I missed an event.
💬 Quote of the week
“If you don’t give experimentation the proper investment (tools, processes, people, skills), don’t expect it to do big things. It probably won’t. ― Shiva Manjunath
😄 Fun of the week
Have you already played with ChatGPT? You should! One of the many things you could do is ask it to explain the concept of p-values in the style of Donald Trump.
[tweet https://twitter.com/markov_gainz/status/1598502475119865856]
📞 Schedule a call with me
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Have a great week — and keep experimenting.
