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5 Reasons Columbus is Great for Digital Analytics (which you can use to justify your trip to ACCELERATE) 26 Jun 2013 | 08:47 am
I’m closing in on six full years since I moved from Austin to Columbus. Because I’m a native Texan, I’ll never truly “go native” in Columbus (there’s a Natural Law of Hillbilliness that dictates that)...
EXACTLY Where I’ve Wanted to Be 22 Jun 2013 | 09:06 am
Ask a career coach how to land your dream job and they’ll tell you: 1) figure out what your dream job is, and 2) develop a plan to get there.* I never consciously did either one, but I realized severa...
Excel Dynamic Named Ranges (with Tables) = Never Manually Updating Your Charts 9 Jun 2013 | 08:21 am
The single post on this blog that has, for several years now, consistently driven the most traffic to this site, is this one that I wrote almost three years ago. Apparently, through sheer volume of co...
Some (Practical) eCommerce Google Analytics Tips 30 May 2013 | 03:00 pm
A short, partially self-promotional post — two links and one, “Hey…look out for…” note about sampling. Post No. 1: Feras Alhlou’s 3 Key GA Reports Feras Alhlou of E-Nor recently wrote an article for...
QA: It’s for Analysts, Too (and I’m not talking about tagging) 28 May 2013 | 03:00 pm
There is not an analyst on the planet with more than a couple of weeks of experience who has not delivered an analysis that is flawed due to a mistake he made in pulling or analyzing the data. I’m not...
Tiger Woods Is Batting .260 Lifetime 13 May 2013 | 06:37 am
Tiger Woods won his 78th career PGA event on Sunday at The Players Championship. The commentators were tireless in their mentions of the fact that his was Woods’s 300th PGA event start. I’m a bad gol...
#eMetrics Reflection: Privacy Is Getting More Tangible 5 May 2013 | 05:11 am
I’m chunking up my reflections on last month’s eMetrics conference in San Francisco into several posts. I had a list of eight possible topics, and this is the fourth and (probably) final one that I’ll...
#eMetrics Reflection: Data Visualization (Still!) Matters 24 Apr 2013 | 04:00 pm
I’m chunking up my reflections on last week’s eMetrics conference in San Francisco into several posts. I’ve got a list of eight possible topics, but I seriously doubt I’ll managed to cover all of them...
#eMetrics Reflection: Self-Service Analysis in 2 Minutes or Less 23 Apr 2013 | 04:00 pm
I’m chunking up my reflections on last week’s eMetrics conference in San Francisco into several posts. I’ve got a list of eight possible topics, but I seriously doubt I’ll managed to cover all of them...
#eMetrics Reflection: Visits / Visitors / Cohorts / Lifetime Value 22 Apr 2013 | 04:00 pm
I’m chunking up my reflections on last week’s eMetrics conference in San Francisco into several posts. I’ve got a list of eight possible topics, but I seriously doubt I’ll managed to cover all of them...