Analytics

TwitterFacebook
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
What’s happening to your business, product, or game right now ? As the web gets faster, we want analytics and data just as fast. Facebook and Twitter have already built their own systems to measure their petabytes of real-time data. But there’s nothing stopping the rest of us from using real-time analytics, too. So how do you actually use real-time data? Let’s keep in mind that actionable metrics help us make better business decisions. http://blog.kissmetrics.com/real-time-analytics/

4 Ways to Harness the Power of Real-Time Analytics

Web Analytics Blog | Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik

http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/ Analysts: Put up or shut up time! This blog is centered around creating incredible digital experiences powered by qualitative and quantitative data insights. Every post is about unleashing the power of digital analytics (the potent combination of data, systems, software and people). But we've never stopped to consider this question: What is the return on investment (ROI) of digital analytics? What is the incremental revenue impact on the company's bottom-line for the investment in data, systems and people?
If you’re new on INSPIRED [the web design lifestyle mag], you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed & Newsletter for extra goodies. Thanks for visiting! In the tradition of Inspired Mag’s huge lists, here goes a new one – all the blogs with cool data visualization eye candy in the same place!

20 Essential Infographics & Data Visualization Blogs | Inspired

http://inspiredm.com/20-essential-infographics-data-visualization-blogs/

Many Eyes

Try out the newest version of IBM Many Eyes! New site design and layout Find visualization by category and industry New visualization expertise and thought leadership section http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/
Update: While I was away, Aaron Bertrand already blogged about this topic on the following link: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/aaron_bertrand/archive/2009/03/18/managing-the-mru-list-for-the-connect-to-server-dialog-in-ssms.aspx also thanks to Don Keily for pointing out in a comment that the file for 2005 is a different name, mru.dat, and not SqlStudio.bin. While debugging changes to the Extended Event Manager, I had a few nagging things like having to type in the server name to connect to for each and every test.

The Rambling DBA: Jonathan Kehayias : Clearing the Recent Server

http://sqlblog.com/blogs/jonathan_kehayias/archive/2009/04/20/clearing-the-recent-servers-list-in-sql-server-management-studio.aspx
Data visualization business

Topics covered in this one-day course include: How to make effective, credible presentations. Fundamental strategies of analytical design. Evaluating evidence used in presentations.

The Work of Edward Tufte and Graphics Press

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/index