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.
Google Analytics recently had a bit of a hiccup with their data processing, which caused the tool to present inaccurate data for many users’ sites for the period between April 30th and May 5th. Google is reprocessing the data, and they expect to get most of it corrected. But, the situation triggered a lengthy and [...]
Awareness (the company) has a Measuring ROI Around Web 2.0 webinar this Thursday, May 22, at 2:00 PM EDT. That’s heavy on the buzzwords, but it sounds like it might have some interesting information. And, I found out about it thanks to a mention on Twitter from Connie Bensen, who will be leaving her new [...]
Avinash Kaushik has a great post today titled The “Action Dashboard” (An Alternative to Crappy Dashboards. As usual, Avinash is spot-on with his observations about how to make data truly useful. He provides a pretty interesting 4-quadrant dashboard framework (as a transitional step to an even more powerful dashboard). I’ve gotten red in the face [...]
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.