Thoughts, musings, and, hopefully, not too many redundancies on the world of business data. If you missed the irony in the previous sentence, you may struggle with my writing style.
I got an e-mail last week just a few hours into Round 1 of this year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament. The subject of the email was simply “dumb graph,” and the key line in the note was: The “game flow” graph…how in the WORLD is that telling me anything? That the score goes up as [...]
I got pinged this morning by a colleague who is looking for someone with marketing chops (preferably B2B) and fairly advanced analytic skills for a 4-6 month engagement. The engagement would require heavy travel on the front end, and the main deliverable is a model that the client can use to assess the effectiveness of [...]
It turns out, as I’ve been looking at my records (read: old blog posts), that this month’s Columbus Web Analytics Wednesday marked our one year anniversary, which means it was our 13th WAW. As we were discussing it last night, we thought next month was the one-year mark, but, in a post from last May, [...]
I attended a United Way meeting last week that was hosted at an overburdened county government agency site in south Columbus. The gist of the meeting was discussing the bleakness of the economy and what that could or should mean to the work of the committee. The head of the government agency did a brief [...]
We’re a week later than maybe would’ve been ideal, but our sponsors are coming all the way from Portland, Oregon, and I expect it to be worth the wait! WebTrends will be sponsoring the event, and Noé Garcia (Strategic Account Executive) and John Defoe (VP of Solution Services) will be attending in person. John will [...]
How’s that for a book title? Would it pique your interest? Would you download it and read it? Do you have friends or co-workers who would be interested in it? Why am I asking? Because it doesn’t exist. Yet. Call it a working title for a project I’ve been kicking around in my head for a couple [...]
Three things I know: 1) My wife got the raw end of the deal when she married me, 2) I blog because it keeps my e-mails shorter, and 3) If you have the urge to talk about data usage in business, I'll do so until long after that desire has passed (for you). If you want to know more, check out my About Gilligan on Data page.