Analytics
An annotated collection of 3 books & articles on analytics, spanning 2003 to 2023. Featuring works by Michael Lewis, Alistair Croll & Benjamin Yoskovitz, Randy Au — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
Moneyball
Lewis chronicles how Billy Beane's Oakland Athletics exploited systematic mispricings in baseball's talent market by replacing scout intuition with statistical analysis — a case study in what happens when an organisation…
Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster
Croll and Yoskovitz wrote the operational companion to Ries's theoretical argument in The Lean Startup. Where Ries argues that validated learning is the right unit of progress, Croll and Yoskovitz tell you which numbers…
How Do We Actually 'Pull Stories Out of Data'?
Randy Au writes the "Counting Stuff" substack and has more practical wisdom about doing data work inside product organisations than most books on the subject. This post is about what happens between a SQL query and an in…