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Cohort

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/ˈkoʊhɔːrt/nounCommon term

In software engineering, cohort means: A group of users who share a starting point or experience in the same period, such as everyone who signed up in January, and who are followed over time.

In Turkish: kohort, dönem grubu

How it is used

Cohort analysis compares how different cohorts behave in the weeks or months after they start, usually in a triangular cohort table. You build, compare or track cohorts. Common in product analytics, subscription businesses and medical research.

Example sentences

  1. Retention in the March cohort is much better than in the February cohort.

  2. Let's do a cohort analysis by sign-up month to see whether the onboarding changes helped.

Common collocations

  • cohort analysis
  • cohort table
  • sign-up cohort
  • monthly cohort
  • churnThe loss of customers or users who stop using a product or cancel a subscription during a given period; also the rate at which this happens.
  • segmentA group of customers or users who share certain characteristics, such as country, device or buying behaviour; as a verb, to divide data into such groups.
  • time seriesA set of measurements of the same thing recorded in order at regular time intervals, such as daily revenue or hourly website visits.

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