One of the main challenges in creating personas is deciding “where to draw the line”, i.e., making judgment calls of what information to include into the persona profiles and how many personas to create. Ideally, we’d include all the information that the eventual persona users need and nothing else. Ideally, we’d create as many personas […]
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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
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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.
The following is a post from the APG Team’s summer 2020 intern, Jaad Mohammed. ——– Note: For a complete overview of Google Analytics persona creation methods, see Persona Creation Using Google Analytics: Summary of Methods To continue with our discussion from Personas with Segment Analytics (Part 1), to perform a persona inspired segmentation using your
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The following is a post from the APG Team’s summer 2020 intern, Jaad Mohammed. ——– Web analytics is the collecting and analysis of data for optimizing an online process. Segmentation. or segment analytics, is an approach of dividing customers into groups based on different characteristics. The resulting segments are composed of consumers who will respond
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In this research, we collect monthly content consumption and demographic data from YouTube over two years for a large media publisher. We use automation to generate 15 personas each month. Then, we examine the consistency of the generated personas over time. We find that there are 35 unique personas in total for the entire period.
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Personas are human like descriptions of customer segments. Just like customer segments, you can use the persona technique to divide your overall market into smaller subset that you can then examine individually. In practice, the best way of using personas for customer segmentation is to apply a technique of data-driven persona creation, such as automatic
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