Gilligan on Data by Tim Wilson

As I’m thinking about how to categorize this post, I’m realizing that, despite the fact that it includes scatter plots, it’s a bit off topic for the sort of things I generally put in this blog. But, back in December, in an afternoon of frenzied, yet focussed, exposition, I dashed out a 15-page pager on [...]

Jeremiah Owyang has a post on his Web Strategist blog titled Why Your Social Media Plan should have Success Metrics. Based on the URL of the post, it looks like Owyang initially titled the entry “Why Your Social Media Plan should Indicate What Does Success Look Like.” Admittedly, the original title is a bit clunky. [...]

Avinash Kaushik just published a post titled History Is Overrated (Atleast For Us, Atleast ForNow). The point of that post is that, in the world of web analytics, it can be tempting to try to keep years of historical data…usually “for trending purposes.” Unfortunately, this can get costly, as even a moderately trafficked site can generate a [...]

That’s gapingvoid as in “Hugh Macleod draws quick, insightful, witty things.” WARNING: the “Who Owns My Data?” cartoon is highly irreverent (it’s gapingvoid, people!) and includes profanity. ‘nuf said — it’s a chuckler: http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/004409.html There’s really nothing I can add to this. Except that I’m still chuckling. Or, maybe I’m cackling maniacally, as my day [...]

I say, “No.” And, actually, it’s not just me. More on that in a minute. I’m going to reference some stuff from wayyyyy back in May 2007 here. I totally missed it when it came out (I’ve got a long list of good excuses), but I recently stumbled across it as I was setting up [...]

Guy Kawasaki posted Ten Questions with Garr Reynolds (author of Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery). Question number 10 (which, as it turns out, was not the last question, as, in an apparent nod to Douglas Adams, Kawasaki actually included 13 questions): “Why do you think 2-D graphs are better than 3-D [...]

At least, I hope this is a welcome! Check the URL — now at gilliganondata.com instead of secondtree.com/data. It’s the little things in life, isn’t it? I’ve spent a silly amount of time trying to understand what’s going on under the hood of WordPress. If you’re subscribed to this blog through the Feedburner link, you [...]

There is a lot of buzz of late regarding Robert Scoble getting knocked off of Facebook as he was testing out Plaxo and, in the process, scraping data from Facebook. The debate that has primarily raged has been around who “owns” our data when we load it into a social media site. I’m pretty sure [...]

We’re working with a client who is simultaneously deploying Eloqua for marketing automation while also switching from Urchin 5 to Google Analytics. All three of these tools provide some level of web traffic data. And, right out of the chute, the client was seeing 40% lower traffic being reported by Eloqua than was reported by [...]