Posts Tagged ‘data’

Analytics : retro-fitting measurability – part 2

In my previous post on analytics and retrofitting measurability, I talked about the first two phases of getting to grips with metrics and analytics in an existing system. I divvied it up so because otherwise it would have been too long to read.

The Zen of Analytics (or, “this guy GETS it…”)

Just before I post part 2 of my humble ‘Analytics and Measurability’ articles, I would just like to invite all analysts, optimisers, and everyone of that data-harnessing ilk to join me in a deep bow of respect.
Read Avinash Kaushik’s post titled ‘This I believe [A Manifesto for Web Marketers & Analysts]‘.
Embody his five-fold path in [...]

Analytics : retro-fitting measurability – part 1

Measurability operates over an incredible range. It’s the ‘gravity’ of the metrics universe. Why do I say so? Because it is a quality attribute that manifests itself at business-level decision-making, without being constrained to that realm in the least.
Measurability permeates everything; it goes past the business level, down through engineering and development activities, and even [...]

Net anonimity schmanonimity

Clicktale, crazyegg, userfly. Suppose I asked you to Google those and then come back.
If I had those sorts of things installed on my pages, I could tell who among you did indeed go and look, and whom amongst you bothered to come back at all, and how long you lingered thereafter.
And if I had forms [...]

Visualisation of large datasets

Go to http://www.visualcomplexity.com and check out a rather interesting collection of images based on large / hierarchical data sets. Pretty neat, huh?
None of us can hold thousands of variables in our heads and not get confused. So, with some creative imagery, we can tackle monstrous datasets by offloading some of the information processing to visual [...]