Interesting thing to note is segmentation and how the categories of posts drive specific conversion rates among the channel sources. Full post: http://www.shopify.com/infographics/social-commerce
Semantic Color Choices For Visualizations
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Reality Mining, are you ready?
I saw an interesting program recently that opened my eyes to a fascinating concept. It is nothing new, in fact, social data mining has been an institution for years. Every…
Create your own scraper and endpoints. Sort of…
YQL (Yahoo! Query Language) gives you some possible control over creating scrapers and rest endpoints very quickly. Uses basic SQL syntax. http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?q=select%20*%20from%20html%20where%20url%3D’http%3A%2F%2Fnews.yahoo.com%2Fworld’%20and%20xpath%3D’%2F%2Fdiv%5B%40class%3D%22content%22%5D%2F%2Fdiv%5B%40class%3D%22txt%22%5D%2Fp’#h=select%20*%20from%20html%20where%20url%3D%27http%3A//www.pinterest.com/hersheycompany%27%20and%20xpath%3D%27//*%5Bcontains%28concat%28%22%20%22%2C%20normalize-space%28@class%29%2C%20%22%20%22%29%2C%20%22%20UserInfoBar%20%22%29%5D/ul%27 Hit test, this is a basic scraper that…
Facebook Apps, Google Analytic Goals and Reportable Value
Facebook has been a point of contention for social media data collectors for a while now. Mostly because the data that is available is only what user privacy restrictions will…