Posts tagged "Analytics"
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First unsolicited feedback on my FBi app
I just got the first feedback for my FBi radio apps! Received last night and pushed through my software factory today. So once approved by the app stores, you'll be able to tap on the show title to se…
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Updating ContractOrPermie.com
I've been a contractor rather than permanent employee for a good chunk of my working life. I started working in the mid-1990s when the business world had been clearly demonstrating that they had no lo…
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Data Product Managers: links
I'm planning a talk and discussion about Data Product Management for tomorrow's MeasureCamp Sydney. Here's my links to further reading. Why Your Company Needs Data-Product Managers Harvard Business Re…
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MeasureCamp Sydney 2019 wrap up
This weekend we held the fourth iteration of MeasureCamp Sydney. For those who don't recognise the term, MeasureCamp is an unconference. A slightly chaotic affair quite unlike an ordinary conference.…
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What biscuit should I eat: an analysis
This has become quite topical again with The Guardian and Good Food weighing in on the best biscuits in a standard Arnott's assortment. Of course the moral of that story is to not buy the assortment.…
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Couple of interviews I've done recently
I did an interview a while back for CMO magazine about the emerging "Chief Data Officer" role. It's out now and you can read it online here. Seems I'm on IDG's radar this year as someone who likes the…
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MeasureCamp Melbourne March 2016
On the weekend I went to MeasureCamp Melbourne and it was amazing. The idea with an UnConference is that the agenda gets worked out on the day. Everyone shows up, throws some things they'd like to do…
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Snowplow is at the heart of everything we do
Here is the presentation I gave at the Snowplow Meetup Sydney last night. In it I talk about all the ways we've been using Snowplow. You can also view the original format on Google Slides here.
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Recruiter hilarity of the week
I get about five calls a week where a recruiter finds my name in LinkedIn and call our company reception number asking for me by name. I can see this on my phone so I'm always prepared for them to be…
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Healthcare spending: worst of both worlds
A few years back The Economist had a great chart on health care spending showing the split between public and private spending. What's interesting is the huge proportion of government spending from th…
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Tableau formula for email domains
As much as I love Tableau, its string functions are rubbish. No split, no regex, not a lot very useful. I find myself constantly searching back in old Tableau files for this, so it's time to publish i…
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Jawbone UP! and self quantification
In May last year I started wearing the annoyingly-capitalized Jawbone UP device. It's a wrist band that tracks your movements, syncing the data with an app on your phone. It's part of the whole Quanti…
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Standing desk: Day 1
I've had a few back problems of late, a herniated disk from lifting my daughter basically. My physio suggests that sitting all day is a big problem, so I've decided to experiment with a standing desk.…
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Contract or permie? Quick app to compare contract rates to permanent salaries
I've always had a spreadsheet to help me compare a daily contract rate to a "standard" salary, to ensure I'm always comparing like for like when considering jobs. A newer wrinkle has been recruiters q…
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I'm a convert to recruitment screen questions
I'm currently recruiting for a position in my team and the company uses one of those hideous Web 1.0 HR systems. One of its features is to set screening questions that you can use to rule out candidat…
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Do English Premier League wages translate into points?
Click through to view in Tableau Public Click through to see in Tableau PublicRandom thing inspired by this discussion on Quora which references this blog post which has a table showing wages vs Leagu…
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Holiday beard begone
As mentioned, I start my new job at Vodafone tomorrow. To make the morning a bit easier, I shaved off my holiday beard tonight. Here's the before/after shots.
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Australia’s total land value to GDP
via thedepression.org.au Rather scary graph showing how overvalued Australian property is.
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Changing jobs
I'm leaving Telstra Media this Friday for an exciting new job. I'm going to be Head of Data at Datalicious, a company doing cool stuff at the intersection of web analytics, big data and marketing. I'm…
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Apple's brilliant piece of price discrimination segmentation
I was reading this article from the Grauniad thinking the usual. Whiny Apple fanboi whinges about his beloved screwing him like a pooch. So far so ordinary. (The flippant 9 year old daughter buying he…
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Web analytics blog name change
Wow, that idea for a name of a web analytics blog was truly awful. Agonising analytics. What was I thinking? So now I have a much better name, which better reflects what it's all about. Here's the blu…
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Web analytics blog
I decided to create a separate blog specifically dealing with web analytics. I often come up with cool little hacks, or interesting approaches, during the course of my work and they're likely to be of…
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How Netflix is Destroying Blockbuster
via slashfilm.com Then check out the jobs they're advertising. They have a whole "Data Science and Engineering" group. http://www.netflix.com/Jobs?id=7622
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Tips for running online training
I've been running weekly training sessions for a few months now. Our aim is to get people up to speed in the web analytics tool we use (Omniture SiteCatalyst) and enable our colleagues to find the dat…
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Adobe's Omniture license agreements getting ridiculous
Some time ago I was invited to Adobe Omniture's Client Advisory Board to have some input into the next iteration of the Adobe's Omniture products. They sent me through an agreement to sign before I co…
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This captures the essence of the Windows user experience
In other words, I know exactly what you're trying to do, but you're doing it wrong so I won't do it.
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I know where you've been
Reading the site behind the evil evil evil evercookie hack (evil, almost indestructible cookies), I stumbled upon the author's CSS History Knocker code. This is something I'd toyed with in the past bu…
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Logstalgia: web log file analysis as pong
via thealphablenders.com This is very cool. Web log file analysis visualized as a game of pong. (Pointed out by Des. Thanks!)
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Why do people watch Mad Men?
via fuckyeahdementia.com Visualisation at its finest.
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Life sure has become globalised
This morning I've got a meeting with developers in Vancouver, then straight after that a meeting with our dedicated support guy in Utah. Later this week I've organised a meeting with developers in Par…
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Oil: A History
via good.is Excellent visualisation
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Who killed more people?
via biomechanic.tumblr.com
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New Australians, 2009
via i.imgur.com This improves on the previous one by using population increase instead of immigration vs static population.
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Boat people: this is what you are “anxious” about
via crikey.com.au
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View from my pimp's 47th floor office
Recruiter's drinks.