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PLT-301 Common core Year Three Platform & Distribution

Analytics I: Reading the Data

The metrics that matter and the ones that don't. Retention graphs, CTR, reach, watch time.

Lectures
8
Total runtime
2h 27m
Attendance minimum
1h 14m
Prerequisites
None

Lecture Playlist

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

  1. 5 Ways to Make the Most of Data with Andrea Jones-Rooy | 2021 Wharton People Analytics Conference Before the dashboard: what a number can and cannot tell you Wharton School 1 Ivy League 17 min
  2. Analytics in YouTube Studio The map: what each analytics tab actually reports YouTube Creators 3 Platform official 6 min
  3. Impressions, CTR & more - Sneak Peek #3 Impressions and click-through rate, defined by the team that built them Creator Insider 3 Platform official 20 min
  4. What Determines How Many Impressions Your Video Gets? Reach is an outcome, not a lever: what actually drives impressions Creator Insider 3 Platform official 10 min
  5. Want to Understand YOUR Traffic Sources? WATCH THIS! Traffic sources and the misreadings creators make of them Creator Insider 3 Platform official 8 min
  6. What the Search for the Next Great NFL Quarterback Can Teach Us About Data-Driven Decision Making The limits of prediction: when a metric stops being evidence MIT Sloan Executive Education 2 Peer institution 34 min
  7. Better Decision-Making: Richard Thaler with Cade Massey | 2019 Wharton People Analytics Conference Acting on data without fooling yourself Wharton School 1 Ivy League 43 min
  8. Practicum · working creator 3 Ridiculously Useful YouTube Analytics (Small Channels, Pay Attention!) A working creator opens his own YouTube Studio and reads the traffic-source reports most channels never scroll to, naming what each one told him to change on the next upload: Lecture 5's traffic-source diagnosis and Lecture 2's map of the tabs, run on live channel numbers instead of a demo account Nate Black P Practitioner 9 min

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

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