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You’ve probably used Looker Studio (formerly Google Data Studio) to create reports for stakeholders or clients.  I had the pleasure of seeing SearchLab’s Greg Gifford present on “Freddy Krueger’s Guide to Scary Good Reporting” recently. He spoke about ways to improve your Looker Studio reporting to make it more useful for clients.  Below are key learnings from Gifford’s session in the form of do’s and don’ts, plus some examples of data visualizations that search marketers will find most helpful. 1. Don’t enter…

A Denver brewery is planning to close later this summer after what the owner calls a “tough five years” brewing and serving beer in the Mile High City. Judd Belstock, owner and founder of Dos Luces Brewery, announced the closure via social media Monday, and while he doesn’t have a firm closing date, he plans to celebrate the business’ fifth anniversary on July 29 before closing up shop. Belstock’s decision comes several months after a car crashed into Dos Luces’ storefront at 1236 S. Broadway in Denver. “The car crashing…

An end-to-end project walkthrough, including some helpful assists from ChatGPTThanks Hamed for the pic!The ESP32 is an MCU (microcontroller unit) widely used in IoT projects due to its low cost and ESP-IDF (Espressif IoT Development Framework), its development framework. The board has a dual-core 32 bits processor, single-chip Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity and is widely used in IoT, home automation, and robotics projects.IoT applications can solve problems in every industry, including agriculture, home controllers and…

It’s easy to say “yes” when an app or website asks for your location data just to get past the pop-up and back to scrolling, but it pays to be thoughtful about who you share it with and why. More often than not, it's more information than apps and websites really need to know about you. Like other kinds of personal information, location data is presented by companies as a trade-off: consumers willingly expose where they are, usually for a more convenient user experience; the companies in turn gather crucial intel about…

Those who join LinkedIn do so with a certain goal in mind. Often, the goal is to establish and expand your professional network, retain contacts in one place, expand businesses, obtain employment, and sometimes stay current with the industry. When it comes to networking and job applications, LinkedIn in some ways has the power to make or break you. LinkedIn, the world’s largest online professional network, had over 875 million members from 58 million registered companies worldwide as of December 2022. This vast ecosystem…

The Destructoid Institute of Critiquing Kusoge Here at the Destructoid Institute of Critiquing Kusoge (DICK), we attempt to be thorough when categorizing games. Hyperbole is avoided when possible, so we don’t make it a habit of using phrases like “worst game of all time.” With that said, “Mega Man 3” is the worst Mega Man 3 of all time. You might have heard that some people claim that Mega Man 3 is the best Mega Man game in the series. Not only are those people wrong, but they are also wrong. I’ve never personally been…

Denver’s Dos Luces Brewery is closed until further notice after a car crashed into its space at 1236 S. Broadway. The brewery, known for creating Mexican and South American beverages such as pulque and chicha, said on social media that no staff members were at the building when a car crashed into it Tuesday morning. A representative from Dos Luces could not immediately be reached for comment on the extent of the damage. “While we were lucky that no one was inside at the time, we are concerned for those who were in the…

Welcome to the second part of our Back To Basics series. In the first part, we covered how to use Linear Regression and Cost Function to find the best-fitting line for our house prices data. However, we also saw that testing multiple intercept values can be tedious and inefficient. In this second part, we’ll delve deeper into Gradient Descent, a powerful technique that can help us find the perfect intercept and optimize our model. We’ll explore the math behind it and see how it can be applied to our linear regression…

NEW DELHI : The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has an acute shortage of designated officers (DOs) and food safety officers (FSOs) who are key to ensuring food safety compliance.…

A guide to avoiding the common pitfalls of event studiesPhoto by Ricardo Gomez Angel on UnsplashEvent studies are useful tools in the context of causal inference. They are used in quasi-experimental situations. In these situations, the treatment is not randomly assigned. Thus, in contrast to randomized experiments (i.e., A/B tests), one cannot rely on a simple comparison of the means between groups to make causal inferences. In these types of situations, event studies are very useful.Event studies are also frequently used…