You may have read there’s a new batch of WAA directors. Eight of the existing directors have returned. Deciding not to return were four great analytics professionals: Rachel Scotto Anil Batra Stephane Hamel Matt Langie The April rains washed in four new, wide-eyed, idealistic directors: Shari Cleary Jodi McDermott Joe Megibow and me. To those WAA [...]
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odds and ends, new and old
February 8th, 2011 No Comments
So, the Strata conference was good, and my talk was pretty well received. Work got in the way of me hanging out at the conference for the whole three days, but I did spend about a day and some change meeting lots of smart people (including a lot of ex-Yahooers) and taking in some talks. [...]
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Upcoming Speaking Appearances
January 4th, 2011 No Comments
Hello World! Happy new year. Today I make good on one of my new year’s resolutions — to start blogging again. I am looking over my calendar and see I have four upcoming speaking engagements: Strata, February 1-3 eTail West, February 22-25 eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit San Francisco, March 13-18 eMetrics Marketing Optimization Summit Toronto, [...]
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Going to eMetrics?
March 21st, 2010 1 Comment
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 [...]
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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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