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Monthly Archives: August 2009

The Epic Tale of Bentley Thadius DeAtley

This post is almost entirely for my sister’s benefit. Because she won the poll.
Meet Bentley, my sister’s Pomeranian-Chihuahua (Pomchi) puppy.
He is pretty adorable and everyone he meets loves him instantly. Except my brother, who accidentally dropped him and then Bentley had a broken leg for awhile. But everyone thought he was even cuter then.
Mainly Bentley [...]

Results of the Poll: 2-way tie and vote tampering

Thanks to those who participated in the poll! I took a 2-week hiatus from writing in the blog because I kind of just got lazy. So there is a tie between writing a post about optimization and data visualization. When my sister found out that her puppy was on the ballot, the puppy faction mysteriously [...]

Torn Between Topics

Forgive me for the continued alliterative titles.  So I have a bunch of things I’d like to write about at the moment but not much overlap.  I’ve had Tableau recommended as a tool to use for data visualization, Avinash posted on trying out other web analytics tools on your own blog, and I just want [...]

Which Metrics Matter Most?

Yay for alliterative titles. As I watch the new season of the Real Housewives of Atlanta, I also have to think about a web analytics reporting challenge.
Imagine you have a large, complex website with data pulls for monthly scorecards/dashboards, but the stakeholders viewing the scorecard have diverse, possibly mutually exclusive interests. For instance, one [...]

WebTrends Analytics 9: at long last

As you may have noticed, I’ve talked about the new beta from WebTrends before, but I wasn’t able to really talk about it until today now that its been publicly released! I’m posting the press release below for those who are interested, as well as screenshots.
I spent a loooong time playing with the beta and [...]