Gilligan on Data by Tim Wilson

Below are the latest posts from blogs I follow related to data, with an emphasis on web analytics, data visualization, and effective presentations. I built the list using Yahoo! Pipe.

If you see an error message below rather than a list of posts, refresh your browser (sometimes several times). That usually does the trick. I don’t know why.

Blogs (Primarily) by Individuals

The posts below come blogs that have a single primary author. Link to the Yahoo! Pipe source or subscribe to the feed directly.

• [Marshall Sponder] How to Track Your Social Media ROI Webinar with Marshall Sponder and Compete.com
• [Marshall Sponder] Value of Community Management & Web Journal Augest 27th – September 1st, 2010
• [Nathan Yau] Mapping the moves of New York residents
• [Nathan Yau] Discuss: Graphs on Old Spice YouTube campaign
• [Manoj Jasra] comScore Acquires NedStat for $36.7 Million – Who's Next?
• [Stéphane Hamel] #measure flash mob!
• [Marshall Sponder] Playing with the Recorded Future Analytics Platform
• [Marshall Sponder] Alterian aquires Intrepid Analytics Consultancy
• [Nathan Yau] Real-time match display for the US Open
• [Nathan Yau] FlowingData is brought to you by…
• [Eric Peterson+] Congratulations to Nedstat and comScore!
• [Nathan Yau] What different sorting algorithms sound like
• [Manoj Jasra] Top 5 Mobile Apps For Labor Day Weekend
• [Robbin Steif+] Training update: Google Analytics, SEO
• [Manoj Jasra] 2010 Demographics / Country Usage for iPad
• [Nathan Yau] Best of FlowingData – August 2010
• [Online Metrics Insider] Don't Be Afraid Of The Cookie Monster
• [Steve Woods] Measuring the Unmeasurable: Influencers
• [Nathan Yau] How to visualize data with cartoonish faces ala Chernoff
• [Jon Peltier] Fake Line Chart (Dummy XY Series for X Axis)
• [Marshall Sponder] Brandtology Social Media Analytics Academy
• [Nancy Duarte] Could you present naked? Garr inspires you to try.
• [Nathan Yau] A house that knows when you’re happy and sad
• [Nathan Yau] The beauty of data visualization
• [Jon Peltier] Custom Error Bars in Excel Charts
• [Eric Peterson+] We are our own worst enemy …
• [Manoj Jasra] Easy Multivariate Testing with Visual Website Optimizer
• [Marshall Sponder] Intelligent Word Mapping and the Wonder Wheel for Organic Search and Social Media Monitoring
• [Nathan Yau] Asteroid discoveries over past 30 years visualized
• [Robbin Steif+] Your Questions Answered: Tracking sources across domains

Corporate Blogs

These posts are from various data-oriented companies. Link to the Yahoo! Pipe source or subscribe to the feed directly.

• [Radian6] 3 Steps to Overcoming Your Engagement Fears
• [Webtrends] Social Media Insider’s Summit wrap up
• [FutureNow] Your New BFF: Weighted Sort in Google Analytics
• [Coremetrics] Keyword Opportunities: Using Explore To Find Data You Didn’t Know You Had
• [Google Analytics] Back-to-Basics: How much mobile traffic do you get?
• [Radian6] The Balancing Act of Personal and Professional Engagement
• [Webtrends] The Business of Marketing Is Marketing
• [Radian6] Do You Know Me? I Mean, Really Know Me?
• [Clearsaleing] Visit ClearSaleing at Hosting.com Booth # 1608, VMWorld, San Francisco, August 31-September 2
• [Omniture] Social Media Acquisition Reporting Basics [Advanced Solutions]
• [Webtrends] Highlights from Media Post’s Mobile Insider Summit, August 25th to 28th
• [Radian6] Webinar Recap: Social Media in the Higher Ed Classroom
• [Zaaz] SEO & Social Media: What is the Relationship? Finally, we have the Answer!
• [Clearsaleing] Search Engine Watch: Optimizing Display
• [Radian6] Agency to Agency Engagement: Is It Practical?
• [Webtrends] Three Fresh New Webtrends Apps: Invite, Forms and Sweepstakes
• [Omniture] Five Times to Test: 3 – Testing Entire Conversion Funnels
• [FutureNow] The Art & Science of CRO
• [Radian6] Should Interns Drive Engagement Activities?
• [Clearsaleing] Podcast: Attribution Analytics and the Purchase Path

Other Resources

There are a couple of other good aggregated resources for web analytics specifically that you may want to look into:

• Stéphane Hamel’s list of web analytics conversations — I don’t know if this is still being maintained, but it was the original resource of this type. One challenge to this feed is that it includes posts to the webanalytics Yahoo! group, which can overwhelm the content.
• Web Analytics category on Alltop.com — a newer, shorter list of web analytics-oriented blogs