Archive for the ‘Tools’ Category

The lack of precision in the Data Panels

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

In a preview post we was talking about the importance of a good information source. We also mentioned two information sources based on user panels, Alexa and Comscore.The main advantage is that comScore provide their Panel Users with software that measures lot of demographic information like gender, age, income, etc. With ...

Analytics 2.0 is running MS Gatineau

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Two weeks ago I received the invite for joining the MS Gatineau Beta test. Unfortunately this month I am very busy so I had, during last two weeks, time to setup Gatineu. Anyways, I received a reminder and finally did it. I'll let Gatineu collect information from one or two weeks ...

Relax - Microsoft Gatineau Demographic information is well protected

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Finally Microsoft is officially providing information about how they track, process and manipulate Demographic data for the Microsoft Gatineau Demographics report (view white paper here). Thanks Ian for this information! The process is as follows: 1- Once a new user register to Windows Live or MSN a LiveID and ...