data stories

53 posts from data stories

Members January 21, 2021 by dc in newsletter

CT No. 70: Everyone’s invited to the first-party data party

1/21: First-party data collection 101, a free-to-use robust survey tool; and great stats on news consumption and audience trust.

November 5, 2020 by dc

Substack v. Ghost: What's better for SEO and UX?

One of the easiest ways to build a sustainable independent media business is to succeed in organic search. So which publishing platform is better for SEO?

Members October 29, 2020 by dc

Big marketing stats with no context are (defeatable) monsters

Our professional conversations in the age of data excess and growth hacking don’t often reflect complex narratives. Data should never shut down reasonable dissent.

Members September 24, 2020 by dc

Planning to build trust through content in 2021

At the intersection of content, media and technology, we’re in a unique position to ensure facts are correct. What can we do to plan for the future?

September 10, 2020 by dc

The best freemium SaaS interactive data viz tool: Flourish review

The freemium data visualization tool Flourish offers a solution for independent data visualizers and enterprise teams alike. Here's my review.

August 20, 2020 by dc

How to read the Google Search Console Insights report

GSC Insights is an automated dashboard with content-focused data from both Search Console and Google Analytics, along with some brand new data that Google has never before offered as a default calculation.

Spotlight newsletter

CT No.249: Weathering the sea change

CT No.248: Robots read text, not subtext

And other insights for developing content in the new era of AI-powered search

CT No. 247: For the rage monkeys and the print nerds

A holiday gift guide for the content professionals in your life

CT No.245: Billy Joel mathletics

Query fan-out is a new term for what's long been a bedrock of keyword-based language processing: the nouns are central to understanding the user's intent.

CT No.244: Explicating "attention" in LLMs

The words we publish and hold up for peer review remain the best representation of our brains at work in the digital world. A published paper is the best way to look closely at the foundational assumptions of LLMs. And those begin with pop culture.