Figure 19-1: A data outlier, flying above the curve of average.
June 2012
Beginner
336 pages
7h 27m
English
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Knowing What New Things Deserve Measuring
What about new things to measure? How do you know where you need to go with your metrics in future?
Your current metrics can answer that question as well. As your customers start using new tools, new systems, new apps, and new techniques, they show up as outliers (see Figure 19-1) in your current metrics. (For more on outliers, see the next section.)

After you see a trend forming, you can begin to measure that metric. That trend may be a type of device, a location, a demographic you’ve never reached, or a new technology.
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