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UK GIAF Summer 2015 - Trends in game analytics: What’s happening and why?

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Kinran@HAStark

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What’s going on?

and why

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Kinran@HAStarkMarket forces

Tech enablers

Frontier zones  

Failure prevention

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Kawanabe Kyosai

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Market forces

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Kinran@HAStark...[according to VB research] most mobile-

first companies are trying to pay between $1 and $1.50 for users, but they are only getting quality users at multiples of those numbers...

August 12 2015 http://venturebeat.com/2015/08/12/this-service-tells-you-what-supercell-machine-zone-and-other-big-publishers-spend-on-user-acquisition/

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...[according to AppScotch] Machine Zone is currently spending somewhere around $12 per user with AdColony, InMobi, and Unity Ads, up to $20 per user with Vungle, and between $2 and $30 per user with Chartboost...

August 12 2015 http://venturebeat.com/2015/08/12/this-service-tells-you-what-supercell-machine-zone-and-other-big-publishers-spend-on-user-acquisition/

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LTV modelling

attributionprediction

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Engagement insight

play patternspend pattern

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Tech enablers

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Kinran@HAStarkKevin Schmidt and Luis Vicente, Mind Candy

Practical real-time approximations using Spark Streaming

hyperloglogs to count uniquesbloom filters to count revenuestream-summary for top-k

(metwally agrawal abbadi 2005)

from nucl.ai Data Science track (to be published)earlier version from huguk available nowhttp://www.slideshare.net/huguk/fast-perfect-practical-realtime-approximations-using-spark-streaming

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Image: re-work.co Deep Learning Summit Boston

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http://ufldl.stanford.edu/wiki/index.php/Visualizing_a_Trained_Autoencoder

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https://www.flickr.com/photos/darronb/6502473781

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Frontier zones

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Kinran@HAStarkMiloš Milošević, Nordeus

Early Churn Prediction and Personalised Interventions In Top 11later detection is more accurate - but less usefultried many techniques – logistic regression good!cluster users based on first day gameplaycustomise messaging based on clustersincreased D1 retention (and downstream metrics)

from nucl.ai 2015 Data Science track (to be published)writeup available on gamasutra now:http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/MilosMilosevic/20150811/250913/

How_data_scientists_slashed_early_churn_in_Top_Eleven.php

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http://mba-suits.com/first-set-pink-white-grey-suit/http://www.ahipster.com/hipster-fashion-knitted-jumpers/hipster-clothes-wooly/

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Failure prevention

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Kinran@HAStarkMeta S. Brown

Analytics failure and how to avoid it

Analytics programs fail....... because they lack a viable plan for success

Imperial College Data Science Institute 24 June 2015http://www.slideshare.net/metabrown/analytics-failure-how-to-avoid-it

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Kinran@HAStarkMeta S. Brown

Analytics failure and how to avoid it

Analytics programs fail....... because they lack a viable plan for success

Define success, and who decides on it

Imperial College Data Science Institute 24 June 2015http://www.slideshare.net/metabrown/analytics-failure-how-to-avoid-it

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Kinran@HAStarkMeta S. Brown

Analytics failure and how to avoid it

Start with a business problema small oneunderstand the business problem really well

As you scale up – pay attention to process replicable! replicable! replicable!

Imperial College Data Science Institute 24 June 2015http://www.slideshare.net/metabrown/analytics-failure-how-to-avoid-it

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Kinran@HAStarkMeta S. Brown

Analytics failure and how to avoid it

Use only as much data as you need to

The best use case for Big is personalisation

Imperial College Data Science Institute 24 June 2015http://www.slideshare.net/metabrown/analytics-failure-how-to-avoid-it

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What next?

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