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Unrelated: I used ChatGPT to generate remark.js presentation HTML code from some content. It did generate the code, but it inserted a GA snippet along with a random GA account code at the bottom of the code. I did not even catch it immediately (laziness, totally my fault), but noticed it a couple of days later when I was modifying the presentation.
Unrelated: I used ChatGPT to generate remark.js presentation HTML code from some content. It did generate the code, but it inserted a GA snippet along with a random GA account code at the bottom of the code. I did not even catch it immediately (laziness, totally my fault), but noticed it a couple of days later when I was modifying the presentation.
Wait… People are actually using ChatGPT to write production code? That's not just a meme?
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You are stretching credibility when you talk about 6 months to retrain from GA to some other analytics tool. 1-2 weeks is much more realistic timeline considering standard industry terms and similarity between tools.
if it was a 1year bootcamp, then I think saying 6mo is.. "fine". Consider transitioning from Excel to LibreOffice or Google Sheets. On the surface it's the same, but doing advanced things requires considerable time investment and is very uncomfortable.
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Perhaps you're using a broad/generic example to try and make the point but I'll say this: If a seasoned mechanic is unable to figure out how to reset the Maintenance Reminder or look up how to sync Tire Pressure sensors, run away. In the same way that one can use knowledge of one programming language as a means to leapfrog into other languages, other skilled trades are similar. Perhaps there's something that could be…
I know mechanics in particular can be quite chauvinistic. In the US, for a very long time, you had to find an "import specialist" mechanic, even long past the point where Japanese brands had gone mainstream. Part of this might have been because of the availability of metric tools at the time; my family had a set of metric wrenches specifically because they had to do occasional light maintenance on their early Datsuns…
Specialized items require specialized tools. Specialized tools, like all other tools, require maintenance and they change.
A shop dealing with domestic produced automobiles can significantly reduce profit-bleed by not servicing vehicles that require special tools, special diagnostics, special machines, etc.
It's simply a math equation. Do I serve enough of these vehicles daily/quarterly/yearly to make these expenditures profitable for me? The shops you're referring to answered no to that question.
My sister-in-law (girlfriends brothers girlfriend, not that it matters) recently studied for a data analytics certification. Actually several. The entire course (located on here: https://medieinstitutet.se ) is based on Google Analytics. Now her entire value is tied to the use of Google Analytics, she will almost certainly fight very hard to ensure that these skills remain relevant, nobody would want to retrain for 6…
> Personally I find this astonishingly foolish of the people who train exclusively on these tools instead of first principles and primitives. That's an elitist perspective that doesn't include the average worker making a living by knowing their tools and not much else.
My personal situation is possibly the least background elite possible and even I know that first principles are important in a field that is shifting -- which happens to be most fields, just tech is a bit faster at churning.
My sister-in-law (girlfriends brothers girlfriend, not that it matters) recently studied for a data analytics certification. Actually several. The entire course (located on here: https://medieinstitutet.se ) is based on Google Analytics. Now her entire value is tied to the use of Google Analytics, she will almost certainly fight very hard to ensure that these skills remain relevant, nobody would want to retrain for 6…
If the ability to work with the things taught in that course is so dependent on GA, then I dare question the term "data analytics" for that certification. Data analytics is a general area of expertise, that is not bound to GA. Perhaps the certification should be called "Google Analytics Certification", instead of implying more knowledge and skill than is actually there. Data analytics has some statistics in it, these…
It's interesting to observe how the existence of a mediocre course in Sweden is leveraged to make the popularity of Google Analytics a major concern.
And maybe the course is not even that Google-dominated. Looking at the content here https://medieinstitutet.se/utbildningar/digital-analytics-di..., they use both Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics and mention other tools like Hotjar.
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There’s actually a far better reason they don’t retrain. There aren’t better tools. Or the tools are basically carbon copies (Google Docs and Sheets). Show me a product that provides so much more value for my team than Excel that it would be worth a retrain.
> There aren’t better tools. Or the tools are basically carbon copies LibreOffice, free open source software. Just as good as Excel and... free.
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Hashing the IP is not enough by IMY's decisions, none of the companies are allowed to use GA going forward. CDON used GA's IP anonymization through truncation, it was not deemed enough. [1] The IP itself becomes is not personal data after truncation but it's unclear if the truncation happens before it leaves the country. And combined with the other personal data (e.g. cookies), it is considered personal data. [2] Coo…
Automated translation of 1.3.14.2: 1.3.14.2 Coop's implementation of the server side container The purpose of the server side container that Coop has implemented is to improve the security related to the data sent. More specifically, the aim is to on a good and safely be able to protect the personal privacy of those registered. Server side the container acts as a proxy between the registrant's browser and the Tool wh…
My sister-in-law (girlfriends brothers girlfriend, not that it matters) recently studied for a data analytics certification. Actually several. The entire course (located on here: https://medieinstitutet.se ) is based on Google Analytics. Now her entire value is tied to the use of Google Analytics, she will almost certainly fight very hard to ensure that these skills remain relevant, nobody would want to retrain for 6…
If a 6-12 month training has no skill transferable to another analytics tool, I strongly suspect the training was useless to begin with. Other analytics tools are not so dramatically different from GA that you'd lose all methodology on what to monitor, how to conduct a study, etc.
To make an analogy, you don't suddenly become useless if you move from Java to C#.
My sister-in-law (girlfriends brothers girlfriend, not that it matters) recently studied for a data analytics certification. Actually several. The entire course (located on here: https://medieinstitutet.se ) is based on Google Analytics. Now her entire value is tied to the use of Google Analytics, she will almost certainly fight very hard to ensure that these skills remain relevant, nobody would want to retrain for 6…
> However now we're in a situation where at least a few thousand people depend on this precise tool existing, and will be economically useless if it is banned. If a 6-12 month training has no skill transferable to another analytics tool, I strongly suspect the training was useless to begin with. Other analytics tools are not so dramatically different from GA that you'd lose all methodology on what to monitor, how to…
Going from Haskell or Scheme to Rust or even Python is going to take some time before you're completely comfortable with all the built-in's the standard libraries, the "pythonic" or "rustic" way of writing, tools and so on.
It's a lot of hidden things, you're not completely useless of course, but it's not like you write "production quality" code and have the ability to work completely independently or be an SME (like you probably were) within 1 month or even 2. It's a lot of little work to get back to where you were professionally.
Because it's not just a training course that is lost, it's all the incidental knowledge that was picked up on the job too.