I was minding my own business, looking at some data in Google Analytics, and then I realized that one data set pretty much was a perfect example of the long tail. A) I was excited that I even recognized it when looking at a table, and b) I didn’t know what it really meant, but [...]
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Monthly Archives: June 2009
Jun 30
Bonnie, Good Fries, and the Locks
Bonnie, who I studied with in Scotland, is visiting with her friend Yael until Tuesday! We went to Cafe Besalu, the Ballard Farmers’ Market, and then got lost trying to get to the Mac and Jack’s brewery for the tour. So we saw parts of Redmond that are not worth seeing really. Then we came [...]
Jun 28
good weather and bad sandals
Such good weather in Seattle today! Totally makes up for the last couple weeks. I did nothing productive except tan at Greenlake and drink tasty beer. Tonight I’m going to taste home brewed beer that my friends make. It is (usually) surprisingly good. My friend Cailey also successfully completed her first marathon today, and finished [...]
Jun 26
7 Data Visualizations That I like
So in my continuing quest to figure out new ways to visualize data, I came across this article through The Grok, (which I realize is from 2007) in Smashing Magazine on new and interesting approaches to data visualization. I tested some of them out and I wanted to share and post pictures of the results [...]
Jun 25
There Once Was A Man From Nantucket…
In my last few days at the Burke Museum, I’ve been tasked with doing anything web analytics possible until I leave. There’s so much more I wanted to accomplish in terms of figuring out goals for the site and assessing who our users are, but hopefully web analytics won’t get tossed aside forever after I’m [...]
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