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.

• [Steve Woods] Email as a Discoverable Medium
• [Nathan Yau] Review: We Feel Fine (the book) by Kamvar and Harris
• [Manoj Jasra] Real Time Web: 70% of Organizations ban Social Network Access
• [Manoj Jasra] FourWhere by Sysomos: FourSquare + Google Maps
• [Marshall Sponder] Social Media becoming easier to track – by years end, be mostly trackable
• [Stephen Few] Tableau Public – A Powerful New Tool for Democratizing Data
• [Tim Wilson] Reporting Tools Can’t Fix Bad Data
• [Nathan Yau] What burger chain reigns supreme?
• [Anil Batra] Free Tools for Web Analytics, Search, Social Media & Competitive Analysis
• [Manoj Jasra] Google Apps MarketPlace for Businesses
• [Nathan Yau] Canada: the country that pees together stays together
• [Online Metrics Insider] Keyword Segmentation: What Are You Missing In That Pile Of Keywords?
• [Stephen Few] Big BI is Stuck: Illustrated by SAP BusinessObjects Explorer
• [Jon Peltier] Charting Utility Upgrades
• [Robbin Steif+] Google Analytics Training in NYC: June 8, 9 and 10, 2010
• [Manoj Jasra] 135 Million Viewers Watched 32 billion Videos in January
• [Steve Woods] Message Delivery vs. Message Discovery
• [Marshall Sponder] FourWhere – FourSquare+Sysomos+Google Maps Mashup
• [Nathan Yau] Looking Inside a Bus Routing Algorithm
• [Marshall Sponder] Wrote a chapter for The Twitter Job Search Guide: Find a Job and Advance Your Career in Just 15 Minutes a Day (Paperback)
• [Eric Peterson+] Web Analytics Wednesday: Free and Independent!
• [Nathan Yau] Edward Tufte will serve on Recovery Independent Advisory Panel
• [Stéphane Hamel] Web Analytics Association: my take as a Director
• [Avinash Kaushik] Kill Useless Web Metrics: Apply The “Three Layers Of So What” Test
• [Marshall Sponder] Social Radar Update and Romp Around – First Impressions
• [Nathan Yau] Data Underload #12 – Famous Movie Quotes
• [Marshall Sponder] FINDING A VOICE IN THE ART BLOGOSPHERE @SMartCAMP SocialMediaArtCamp.com
• [Manoj Jasra] 50% of Google's Products Came from 20% Time (and other Facts & Figures)
• [Marshall Sponder] Social Media Measurement Panel at SMartCAMP www.socialmediaartcamp.com
• [Marshall Sponder] Towards a Unified Framework of Influence Measurement – Part 1

Corporate Blogs

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

• [Omniture] Summit Topic #3: Participation
• [Radian6] March ebook: Social Media Measurement & Analysis
• [Webtrends] Tap into Flash with Webtrends’ Facebook Analytics
• [Coremetrics] Kicking off the Client Summit
• [Omniture] Summit Topic #2: getPercentPageViewed plug-in
• [Radian6] Radian6 to Launch Engagement Console Desktop Application in April
• [Webtrends] Killer Mobile App Measurement
• [Webtrends] Insight about your mobile audience from your web site
• [Clearsaleing] Attribution Management Hot Topic at Etail West 2010
• [Omniture] Summit Topic #1: Visitor Scoring in SiteCatalyst
• [FutureNow] B2B Buyers Still Want Basics from Your Email Marketing
• [Coremetrics] Three things you should know while tagging Facebook Fan Pages:
• [Omniture] Welcome to the Idea Exchange!
• [Webtrends] Get $50 OFF this Friday’s Red Chair Studio Session
• [Radian6] 10 Key Engagement Metrics to Track
• [Google Analytics] Google Analytics API Case Study: Dolby Laboratories automates analytics reporting with Shufflepoint
• [Radian6] Six Elements of Effective Social Media Benchmarking
• [FutureNow] Credibility: Yours to Loose
• [Radian6] Radian6 and Deep Focus Partner for MSN Oscar Coverage
• [Webtrends] Think Outside the App

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