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  • If you’ve been following this series, you would have seen my initial post (Part I) and subsequent post (Part II). If you’re not up to speed, I’m attempting to forecast my website views over time. I’ve started with a fairly simple model and I’m adjusting it over time to see how accurate I can make…

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  • 98 – How Trustworthy is Your Data?

    I think this questions leads you down a very interesting conversation path: Can you trust your data? I have a flurry of broader questions that follow, but here are a few that pop into mind: How have you selected the data to collect? How do you collect it? How do you transform it? Are you…

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  • 97 – How to Select the Best Model?

    Last week, I provided an update for how my models were performing against human behaviour. Within that post, I included a decision-making table that automatically tells me which model I should be favouring during certain periods: What I wanted to showcase was how I went creating this process, but also to do one of those…

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  • 96 – How My Website Statistics are Tracking (Part II)

    Last week, I shared two different datasets on the views my website observed for this past week and future weeks: The total views that I had over this past week (02/02/2026 – 08/02/2026) was: 225 Updated Numbers Turns out that neither the model nor my gut was accurate. Over the past 2 weeks, I’ve experienced…

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  • 95 – How I Developed my Website Statistics Metrics

    My Predictions Below are my 2026 website statistics model’s* predictions for the: *I replaced an anomaly of 174 views on 27th January using the average method of the previous data point for the year; 15 views. The projected ‘Full Year’ forecast was 10,728; supposedly unlikely. Below are my gut instinct 2026 website statistics predictions for…

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  • 94 – Updating Your Automated Monthly Planner

    Back in 2024, I made a post about creating a year’s worth of monthly planners using a mixture of Google’s Sheets, Apps Script, and Docs. In brief, I was sick of spending about an hour or two manually making these planners so I made it a (near) automated process. What I’ve created in this post…

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  • 93 – What Does Imposter Syndrome Feel Like to You?

    Simple question up front: What does Imposter Syndrome feel and look like to you? I had a(nother) recent experience with that psychological pattern of doubting my skills and accomplishments. That feeling of being a fraud and the fear of being exposed for the incompetent fool that my brain tells me I am. The irony is,…

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  • 92 – Reshaping the Road Ahead

    Whilst we were at our supermarket’s check out, my wife was telling me about a cast member of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Dana Wilkey, who had a $1M lollipop holder. Essentially, a lollipop holder encrusted with diamonds. Source: https://bigblondehair.com/real-housewives/rhobh/the-million-dollar-lollipop-holder-seen-on-dana-wilkey-kim-k/attachment/milliondollarlolipopholder-2/ I couldn’t resist and invited the check-out person into the conversation by asking them…

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  • 90 – A Year’s Growth: What Compounding Effort Looks Like

    It’s been a while since my last post and it will be a while until I get back into the habitual groove. I thought that I’d take the time to reflect on the past year and here’s how I can summarise it in a sentence: This was the year where compounding my effort started paying…

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