Content Creation University
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MST-602 Master's core Year Six Master's

Data-Driven Growth & Experimentation

Hypothesis-driven content strategy: packaging tests, format experiments, reading results without fooling yourself.

Lectures
7
Total runtime
6h 18m
Attendance minimum
3h 9m
Prerequisites
B.CC — Years One to Five

Lecture Playlist

Ordered as a teaching progression, not by popularity. Attendance is recorded once half of a lecture has been watched.

  1. Lecture 14: Causality (MIT 14.310x, Esther Duflo) The foundation — what a causal claim actually requires, and why randomization is the answer to selection bias MIT OpenCourseWare 2 Peer institution 76 min
  2. Lecture 15: Analyzing Randomized Experiments (MIT 14.310x, Esther Duflo) Analysis and design — reading an experiment's result, and sizing a test before you run it MIT OpenCourseWare 2 Peer institution 79 min
  3. Marketing Experiments: From the Basics to the Cutting Edge Applied testing — A/B, multivariate, and adaptive "earn and learn" designs in a marketing context Wharton Analytics (WCAI) 1 Ivy League 61 min
  4. BIG Faculty Webinar with Professor Mike Luca & Max Bazerman: How organizations learn from experiments Building the practice — how an organization turns experiments into decisions instead of decoration Harvard CPL 1 Ivy League 57 min
  5. Mike Luca on the role experiments play in addressing discrimination Experiments on platforms — how design choices produce measurable outcomes you never intended HBS Digital Initiative 1 Ivy League 32 min
  6. Integrating Explanation and Prediction in Computational Social Science — Duncan Watts Capstone: the humility lecture — why post-hoc explanations of success feel true and predict nothing Cornell CSES 1 Ivy League 54 min
  7. Practicum · working creator Clickbait is Unreasonably Effective A working creator re-packages his own published videos and shows what the view curves did: Lecture 3's packaging test run live, under Lecture 1's standard for what counts as a causal claim (hold the content fixed, change one thing) Veritasium P Practitioner 19 min

Every course reserves one practicum seat, listed last and marked P. It is filled by someone who has shipped the work — here, Veritasium — because the university lectures establish why something works and the practicum shows it being done under real constraints.

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