The joy of stats

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Carl Marshall

The title is somewhat borrowed from a recent TV series by Prof Hans Rosling, the swedish master statician, and someone I imitated poorly in a couple of recent presentations we have done on the LfI project. One of which you … Continue reading →

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The impact of Cookie law

Posted on May 24, 2011 by Carl Marshall

You may or may not be aware of recent changes to EU and UK regulations regarding the use of Cookies on websites. Cookies are small text files sent out to user’s machines and posted back to the server with each … Continue reading →

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Refering to my log analysis

Posted on March 30, 2011 by Carl Marshall

I talked a while back about an aspect of Logfile Analysis referred to in the TIDSR as Referer Analysis. In simple terms, this looks are the Referer portion of the logfiles and attempts to find patterns or identify interesting items. … Continue reading →

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Can you hear me tweeting?

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Carl Marshall

Measuring Impact with Twitter and Bit.ly For the past month (and ongoing) we have been running an experiment to test what impact the advertising of selected podcasts can have via Twitter. In this short report we look at the initial … Continue reading →

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User Agent Analysis – Part 2: Name those agents

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Carl Marshall

In writing a system to parse the myriad of User Agent strings that appear in our podcast hosting logs, I have come across a number of interesting (on a very geeky level) observations. Short background is that I have sampled … Continue reading →

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