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.
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53 posts from data stories
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
CT No.242: What's your vector, Victor?
How to understand tokens and vector embeddings, for word people.
CT No.241: TF? ID(GA)F: The old faithfuls of language processing
Even in the face of "black box" algorithms, the history of artificial intelligence—natural language processing, more specifically—has left plenty of clues. While we can't understand the full equation, we can see how building blocks create common patterns in how current algorithms process language.
CT No.240: Mad inconvenient infrastructure
Infrastructure, no matter how solid or planned or continuously improved, gets messy. Observing humanity in July feels like the ultimate UX research experiment.
CT No.239: Please automate the tedious part for me
July is prime chart-making season. July 2025 is one more chartmaking season that will not be powered by artificial intelligence, and here's why.
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