Brand Tags asks people to describe a brand with a single word. The results are aggregated, painting a picture of how various brands are perceived. I was struck by how unaware most people are of some of the most popular internet sites and services. Look for the giant ? symbol: WordPress TechCrunch Flickr Gawker It’s [...]
Here’s my problem: I have to remember the date I made a change on a website if I want to do a simple before and after comparison in Google Analytics. Something happened on March 17, but you’d never know it by looking at Google Analytics. What if Google Analytics let you place a simple marker [...]
It’s a rainy Monday morning after a long holiday weekend, so I’m crabby. It’s a small thing, but it bugs me that the colors on the Google Analytics Traffic Sources pie chart aren’t consistent across my different websites. For example, orange refers to direct traffic here: …but when I look at the statistics for a [...]
These are so cool! Lokesh Dhakar created infographics of baseball’s most common pitches. I’m a baseball fanatic, and even I couldn’t have described the motion of half of these pitches. Here they are in easily digestable infographic format. Note the subtle use of color to indicate pitch speed. (via kottke)
Finally, the dark ages are over! I can playfully interact with my coffee cup about serious global issues! From information aesthetics: when hot water is poured in, the image of sea over land appears as a direct representation of the slowly heating waters on our planet. Kidding aside, I think this is pretty cool (pun [...]
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