Not to toot my own horn, but twice now Adobe has copied something I have done and added something similar to Adobe analytics as a feature. I’m not saying they stole them or anything but I did develop some similar solutions and implement them before they did so perhaps a better way …
I don’t write about analytics much. I should probably write more since it is my profession and it would showcase my skills but I guess after doing it all day the last thing I want to do is come home and do it some more. That being said I had …
I don’t normally write about analytic implementations. It’s not that I don’t enjoy them, or that I am not interested. It’s more that this is my bread and butter. I have invested a lot of time and effort in creating solid solutions to problems like page naming strategies and I …
It’s always fun to look at the site after awhile and review the analytics to see what posts were popular. This blog is really just a collection of random thoughts and things I collect so there isn’t much in the way of a cohesive theme. This randomness is detrimental to the popularity …
As a Web Analyst the supposed holy grail of data usage and optimization is personalization. Disregarding the whole PI issue for the time being, the notion of a website that uses data to optimize itself to you; that tailors itself to your interests is awesome. Think of all the sites …
I love learning and I just learned something new today I thought I would share. It’s called Benford’s law and it has to do with mathematics. Don’t worry, it’s not hard. Isn’t that awesome?!! You’re probably thinking, “nice going dork, that is totally complicated.” You’re right it is. I can’t read …
I hate it when people ask, “So what do you do for a living?” “I’m a product manager at the CBC for web analytics” At about this time the person I am talking to begins to blank out and wait for their turn to speak. My father has resorted to …
I hate it when people ask, “So what do you do for a living?” “I’m a product manager at the CBC for web analytics” At about this time the person I am talking to begins to blank out and wait for their turn to speak. My father has resorted to …
Chris Berry has continued his analysis of restaurants with a comparison of the Old Spagetti Factory and the Hothouse and it is a very interesting read, or at least it is if you are into this sort of stuff. What was neat for me was tonight I was out for …
Chris Berry, a friend and colleague wrote a very interesting post on the analytics of restaurant menus. Chris took a restaurant’s online menu and analyzed the prices of items, numbers of items, average prices and much more. This is Chris’ first stab at it but the mind leaps at the …