July 2014

(Game): Defend the NHS Against the Privateers

(Game): Defend the NHS Against the Privateers

Game I built using phaser.io, where you can defend the NHS against some of those trying to privatise it

 

March 2014

Visualising Ministerial Lobbying in the UK: May-Oct 2010

Visualising Ministerial Lobbying in the UK: May-Oct 2010

Visualisation of 6,393 meetings between 100 ministers and 3,533 organisations over 240 days. Data provided by the Guardian and Who's Lobbying

 

February 2014

Processing & Visualising Analytics Data with Python, Django & Celery

Processing & Visualising Analytics Data with Python, Django & Celery

Details of a tool I wrote that takes data from Google Analytics API, processes it, and produces data visualisations, including motion charts

 

July 2013

D3: Book, Demo and Talk Slides

D3: Book, Demo and Talk Slides

Various D3 related activities: book, a complex demo, and some slides

 

June 2013

D3: Attention Hungry UK Government Cabinet Ministers - Explained

D3: Attention Hungry UK Government Cabinet Ministers - Explained

Detailed breakdown of a #D3.js application, built using reusable D3, incorporating force layout, sound, timers, components, modules and more.

 

D3: Preview of a Refined Practice Visualisation and Chart Tool

D3: Preview of a Refined Practice Visualisation and Chart Tool

Built using reusable D3, we're in the process of crafting a tool to enable non-technical editors and authors simply create visualisations and charts

 

D3: Building and Using Reusable Modules, Components and Structures

D3: Building and Using Reusable Modules, Components and Structures

An in-depth explanation of the code behind the Reusable D3 Demo, involving The Queen, Princes Charles and William, a Corgi and a Pie Chart

 

December 2012

Bounce Rates: What Are Hard and Soft Bounce Rates in Natural Search?

Bounce Rates: What Are Hard and Soft Bounce Rates in Natural Search?

Bounce rates can reveal visitor (dis)satisfaction on a web page. We discuss how hard and soft bounce rates provide greater detail and understanding

 

The Conversation at Google That Led to the "Not Provided" Fudge

The Conversation at Google That Led to the "Not Provided" Fudge

How did "Not Provided" actually happen? It's a dreadful fudge, and is full of holes. Here we examine the conversation that led to its implementation.

 

Why Analyse Searchbots Visits? Answer: They May Not Find All Content

Why Analyse Searchbots Visits? Answer: They May Not Find All Content

We discuss how to analyse and visualise searchbots visits, how they can become distracted, and how to help searchbots be more effective.

 

November 2012

How Does the UK Search For Nadine Dorries, AKA, The Jungle Queen?

How Does the UK Search For Nadine Dorries, AKA, The Jungle Queen?

Digging into 2.5 million search queries to examine how the UK populace search for Nadine Dorries, no doubt soon to be the "jungle queen"

 

October 2012

Understanding 2.5 Million Searches: Reality TV, Politicians & Death

Understanding 2.5 Million Searches: Reality TV, Politicians & Death

A research project commissioned by the BBC into how people search for news and politics in the UK, including visualisations and recommendations

 

August 2012

A Little Interactive Visualisation of Team GB's London 2012 Medals

A Little Interactive Visualisation of Team GB's London 2012 Medals

Exploration of the team gb medals via a pie chart, a bubble chart, and via animations of their growth over time and of which sport won which medal

 

May 2012

The Horror of "(not provided)", Google Analytics Premium and Chrome

The Horror of "(not provided)", Google Analytics Premium and Chrome

How much does "(not provided") affect our websites (data from Hitwise UK)? Does it impact Google Analytics Premium (yes)? And what of the future?

 

Optimising for Mobile: Feature Phones, Smartphones, Subdomains & More

Optimising for Mobile: Feature Phones, Smartphones, Subdomains & More

Serving content for mobiles can seem a little confusing: feature phones, smartphones, subdomains, etc. Brief introduction to mobile optimisation

 

April 2012

Key Phrases From 163 Pages of Adam Smith and Fred Michel Emails

Key Phrases From 163 Pages of Adam Smith and Fred Michel Emails

A visual analysis of 163 pages of email correspondence that were released to the Leveson inquiry today (24/4/12) as part of James Murdochs testimony

 

ionSearch April '12: Searchbots, Keyword Research, Relevance Analysis

ionSearch April '12: Searchbots, Keyword Research, Relevance Analysis

Just after #BrightonSEO I was invited to #ionSearch where I spoke about keyword research and relevance analysis and presented on searchbots

 

Brighton SEO April 2012 Presentation: Searchbots, Lost Children & More

Brighton SEO April 2012 Presentation: Searchbots, Lost Children & More

I was lucky enough to speak at #BrightonSEO, talking about visualising searchbots visits, and how we actually know what they request and do

 

Speaking at Brighton SEO, 13/4/2012: Visualising Searchbots, Googlebot

Speaking at Brighton SEO, 13/4/2012: Visualising Searchbots, Googlebot

I'm discussing what factual data we have that tells us what searchbots actually do, how we can visualise their visits, and we can help searchbots.

 

Speaking on "Killer Keyword Research" at ionsearch, April 18th 2012

Speaking on "Killer Keyword Research" at ionsearch, April 18th 2012

I'll be discussing sources of search data, how to cost-effectively use this data to increase relevance, and non-ranking measures of success

 

Django - Why Use the Django Framework?

Django - Why Use the Django Framework?