Re:Famous tech acquisitions’ cost per user
by dredmorbius on Wednesday February 26, 2014 @05:46AM
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their existence implies that cost per user somehow matters
Well, it does matter, after a fashion, and it's a one (of many) metrics that an acquisition can be considered on.
I found it interesting to look through the list for obvious winners and loses, and actually, that would be a much more useful plot: showing the cost-per-user on one axis against, say, the 3-5 year investment performance on the other.
Actually, better than that even would be to look at a number of dimensions and plot these against one another looking for patterns in the data. R is particularly good at this with its scatterplot matrices:
Well, it does matter, after a fashion, and it's a one (of many) metrics that an acquisition can be considered on.
I found it interesting to look through the list for obvious winners and loses, and actually, that would be a much more useful plot: showing the cost-per-user on one axis against, say, the 3-5 year investment performance on the other.
Actually, better than that even would be to look at a number of dimensions and plot these against one another looking for patterns in the data. R is particularly good at this with its scatterplot matrices:
https://personality-project.org/r/r.graphics.html
https://personality-project.org/r/figures/splom.jpg