Analytics Avenue

I've been receiving an increasing amount of Yahoo! Web Analytics ( formerly IndexTools ) questions lately due to the recent press on the CMS analytics study. While Yahoo! Web Analytics has not yet launched publicly, I wanted to send along some helpful links that discuss Yahoo! Web Analytics in more detail. I'm guessing that these links will only get people more antsy for the release, but it's helpful none the less. Yahoo! Web Analytics For Your Web Site Main Site: http://web.analytics.yahoo.com/ Video: 9 Minute Overview (by Eric Hamilton) http://www.detroitwideweb.com/temp/Yahoo-YWA-Reporting-Deck-EHAM.html http://eham1906.blogspot.com/2009/02/yahoo-web-analytics-reporting-overview.html Video: Same As Above: http://eham1906.blogspot.com/2009/02/yahoo-web-analytics-reporting-overview.html Video: 5 Minute Overview (by Dennis Mortensen) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yelzmWK64z0 Yahoo! Web Analytics For Your Yahoo! Small Business Store Video: Y!WA Set up for Yahoo! Store...

For those of you out there looking to find more information about Yahoo! Web Analytics ( formerly IndexTools ), another overview video has been created. This 9 minute video was put together by Yahoo's very own Eric Hamilton . It covers many of the high level reports that can be found within the Yahoo! Web Analytics interface. The video can be found at either of these two destinations: http://www.detroitwideweb.com/temp/Yahoo-YWA-Reporting-Deck-EHAM.html http://eham1906.blogspot.com/2009/02/yahoo-web-analytics-reporting-overview.html

This post is a bit off the web analytics topic but I found this type of analytics to be pretty cool none-the-less. Here's a snapshot report analysis of my home solar usage. I recently bought a new home in December that included some pretty cool (no pun intended) solar technology. This type of data will be very useful in helping me understand peak electricity usage, etc. For example, the tall grey bar (that is hard to read in the chart below) is my high electricity usage during Super Bowl Sunday on 2/1 (ouch)! The orange bars show how much electricity I'm using up. Based on this information below, I'm not using as much as I'm generating. What this means is that my extra electricity is going back onto the city grid. And let me tell you....it never gets old watching my electric meter outside run backwards! So far, my home has reduced emissions equivalent to: - Planting four mature trees - Not driving 476 miles in a standard car.