There’s this confidence game (aka con) that’s been going around. It’s called lying with data. A friend of mine recently fell for the lying with data con as performed by Jakob Nielsen. Jakob Nielsen should know better. Any successful con involves three
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Data, unique visits for three real estate aggregation sites according to Compete.com
Sometimes, when evaluating size and scope of market, it’s useful to look at the volume of traffic for some bellwether sites. In the US real estate industry, those bellwethers would be Trulia, Zillow and Realtor.com. Here are some graphs of their yearly traffic for 2012 as gathered from Compete.com’s SiteAnalytics product:
Introducing the flowgraph
As I’ve been messing around with a pile of event data for Twitter I’ve been mulling over aspects of visualizing the data in a way that helps to unlock the meaning and insights contained in that data. Along the way I’ve come up with a new way of visualizing data and I’d love your thoughts […]
Inman’s Real Estate Connect and Agent Reboot NYC 2013 Twitter Hashtag, streamlined
Some friends and clients of mine asked me to streamline the Twitter channel for Inman News’ Agent Reboot and Real Estate Connect conferences. Here is the streamlined hashtag. Please note that none of the retweets in this stream should be construed as endorsements or non-endorsements. I simply retweeted items from the main hashtag which contained […]
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Thoughtfaucet launches premium content Thoughtfaucet is launching premium content to help streamline delivery on a range of topics that Gahlord is asked about frequently. Content will be available in pay-per-post and as an “Everything” yearly subscription. The first item available is a conversation on Social Strategy, Tactics and Measurement that took place between Gahlord and […]
Black Friday Sales Data 2012
This is a roundup of data gathered around the 2012 Black Friday sales event, with a special focus on online sales data. Every year when the data comes out there are dribs and drabs scattered across a wide variety of studies, sites and posts. I’m going to aggregate them here. Black Friday 2012 Timing Data […]
Some data on human behavior in a Twitter community
Recently BloombergTV has decided to use the #BTV hashtag to promote special events on their channel. This post contains some data regarding one such event. Those who have read articles here for some time will be familiar with the ongoing experiment in digital community known as “the #BTV hashtag.” The short version is that, since […]
The six things people do when they see your sponsored Facebook post on their mobile device.
A quick illustration of how misaligned or non-existent strategies yield new and interesting results.
Content demonstrates
If your organization is just beginning to get beyond the “5 great ways to blahblah” kind of advice so that you can get strategic with your content creation, use the thoughts below as a starting point as you assemble your plan. You may find thinking this way more valuable and practical than the 5 inane […]
No more traditional media
Don’t worry, this isn’t a “death of” article. I’m simply giving notice that the phrase “traditional media” really isn’t very useful. Sure it’s handy as a shorthand way of referencing print, TV and radio. But in the long run, I think the phrase “traditional media” does more harm than good; both digital and real world […]