I’m cruising through LinkedIn. I click on the profile of a well-known analytics person, and this ad appears on the page: Cool to see Jim’s smile on my web browser. :) I wonder if LinkedIn showed me this because they figured I’d be interested (behavioral targeting) or because the profile mentioned analytics (contextual targeting)? And [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Analytics'
Hello eBay!
March 20th, 2010 3 Comments
Thanks for the emails and tweets around my time off, it was short but sweet. While it would have been great to take more time to decompress, I knew what was ahead — and felt like a kid on Christmas Eve. I didn’t want to wait, because … I’ve joined eBay. eBay has many fabulous [...]
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The Last Yodel
March 5th, 2010 Comments Off
When I started my keynote presentation at eMetrics Santa Barbara 2006, I said “there was a time when I was not at Yahoo!, and there will be a time when I’m no longer at Yahoo!.” That day has come .. it’s my last day at Yahoo!. Lest anyone think this means I’m down on the [...]
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Analytics Haiku
September 18th, 2009 2 Comments
For the past few eMetrics Summits, Jim Sterne has been holding a creative writing contest, with the winner getting a pass to eMetrics. That’s good value for a little creative writing! For the upcoming Washington DC event, Jim decided to limit the entries to haiku. Last night I had an urge to participate. The timing [...]
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Is This the Future of Web Analytics?
January 11th, 2009 4 Comments
Long ago I mentioned what I called “vertical analytics” and how blogs may be the next analytics frontier. Fast forward to the present, and blog analytics are “been there, done that.” (The product demo I saw in a hotel room at SES never saw the light of day; the originator went on to other things [...]
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New Visualization Sites, Tools and Ideas
January 4th, 2009 2 Comments
If there’s one thing better than having lots of data, it’s probably visualizing it. I’ve been coming across new sites and new ideas for visualizing data, and thought I’d mention a few. One of the things I love about the New York Times is their smart visualizations. The interactive graphic A Year of Heavy Losses [...]
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Graphing Yahoo! News Elections Traffic
November 13th, 2008 No Comments
Just a quick graph that shows daily page views to Yahoo! News. The green line shows the week before the US elections, while the week of the elections is in blue. This comes from our internal numbers; for “competitive reasons” I removed the legend indicating volume — but you can see the site was much [...]
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Baseball, Sabermetrics, Freakonomics and Web Analytics
April 9th, 2008 No Comments
Great read over on the Freakonomics blog with Bill James, the data wizard for the Boston Red Sox. A few choice quotes rang true for me; he could have been talking about web analytics: I would say generally that baseball statistics are always trying to mislead you, and that it is a constant battle not [...]
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Yahoo! acquires IndexTools
April 9th, 2008 2 Comments
Today Yahoo! and IndexTools announced that Yahoo! is acquiring IndexTools. Here is the official press release. I’m really jazzed about it. IndexTools is a great group that’s been laser focused on the stuff that customers care about. They have a very practical attitude towards their products. Because they started in 2000, they learned from the [...]
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Is Web Analytics Easy or Hard?
April 8th, 2008 1 Comment
In the words of Bill Clinton, “it depends on what you mean by …” The web analytics is easy / hard discussion among various thought leaders has been interesting but I can’t help but think a little self-serving. I had a long preachy post ready to go but even I was bored by it. Instead, [...]
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