User segmentation is the practice of dividing potential or existing users into groups that share similar characteristics. As such, user segments go hand in hand with data-driven personas! User segmentation is employed as a user understanding technique by nearly every product team. Think of it this way! The ultimate goal of product design or product […]
Using Data-Driven Personas for Enhanced User Segmentation Read More »
We are putting the finished touches on our book, Data-Driven Personas by Bernard J. Jansen, Joni O. Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, and Kathleen Guan, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) and University College London. Morgan & Claypool Publishers. Here’s how it all began!
Data-Driven Persona Book: APG – How it all began! Read More »
As paper-based personas move to interactive persona analytics systems, online companies face large user populations, making segmentation a daunting exercise, along with creating actionable data-driven personas from these large datasets. In this research, we demonstrate an approach that facilitates user segmentation. The approach leverages product dissemination and product impact metrics with normalized Shannon entropy.
For our forthcoming book, “Data-Driven Personas”, one of the personas that we are designing the book’s content for is the system designer, Sam.
Update – Data-Driven Personas Book for Sam, the system designer Read More »
In a previous post, we analyzed the demographic Bias in Artificially Generated Facial Pictures that raised a concern that the generated images might not fairly represent all demographic groups. In this post, we discuss if these artificially generated pictures are good enough for use in personas profiles for real-world systems and applications, which are highly
How suitable are artificially generated facial pictures in data-driven personas? Read More »
APG is a data-intensive system that automatically creates rich personas representing customer segments by employing web/social media analytics. APG uses this analytics data to identify customer behaviors, generates customer segments, and then enriches these customer segments with gender, age, and nationality appropriate names and pictures; customer loyalty rating, customer interests, product interactions, brand sentiment, and
APG shows the geographical distribution of your personas! Read More »
APG is a data-intensive system that automatically creates rich personas representing customer segments by employing web/social media analytics. APG uses this analytics data to identify customer behaviors, generates customer segments, and then enriches these customer segments with gender, age, and nationality appropriate names and pictures; customer loyalty rating, customer interests, product interactions, brand sentiment, and
APG calculates the number of customers represented by each persona! Read More »
