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Data Visualization Ideas and Unclear Graphs

In my last post on data visualization, I had a couple tools recommended to me to try out. One had a limited trial period that I didn’t take advantage of in time, and the other, a tool by VisualizeFree, was too buggy to work. I uploaded my data easily enough (still had to clean it [...]

The Latest Data Visualization Toys

Lately I’ve been seeing a ton of new data visualization tools/experiments that I thought were worth sharing. One is not really applicable to web analytics or reporting, but others are.
Trendly
I saw a post about Trendly on the Google Analytics Blog, its an application that leverages GA data to display it in a way that is [...]

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 [...]