15 articles in this selection

2009/09/29

The Data Liberation Front is an engineering team at Google whose singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products. We do this because we believe that you should be able to export any data that you create in (or import into) a product. We help and consult other engineering teams within Google on how to "liberate" their products....

2009/08/18

With Google Insights for Search, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, time frames and properties.

2009/08/13

Many of our clients use Excel to manage their ad campaigns, visualize marketing performance, and perform complex data analysis. Most analysts use the Google Analytics Export feature to manually export their report data to CSV files. Then they import the CSV file into Excel. No longer! Now, with the Google Analytics API you can bypass this manual step and export Google Analytics data directly from within Excel! Once you've set it up, there's no need to visit the Analytics reports to view data in Excel....

2009/07/27

Google released whitepapers on their distributed filesystem called GFS and a parallel computing architecture called MapReduce. Since then, a number of open-source projects have started that implement these ideas. Of note, though, is the Apache project Hadoop which implements a distributed filesystem and the MapReduce framework in Java. So I decided to build a cluster of 10 nodes and try it out....

2009/07/27

MapReduce is a software framework introduced by Google to support distributed computing on large data sets on clusters of computers. The framework is inspired by map and reduce functions commonly used in functional programming, although their purpose in the MapReduce framework is not the same as their original forms. MapReduce libraries have been written in C++, C#, Java, Python, F# and other programming languages....

2009/07/27

Apache Hadoop is a free Java software framework that supports data intensive distributed applications. It enables applications to work with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data. Hadoop was inspired by Google's MapReduce and Google File System (GFS) papers....

2009/07/12

I'm not sure Google's new Chrome OS announcement is that big a deal, or that the eventual product that gets released will actually have that much impact, but it's a useful milestone in marking Google's evolution towards becoming an older company with a distinctly different culture than they used to have. This is, for lack of a better term, Google's 'Microsoft Moment'. This is the point when the difference between their internal conception of the company starts to diverge just a bit too far from the public perception of the company, and even starts to diverge from reality. At this inflection point, the reasons for doing new things at Google start to change....

2009/06/17

Chart APIs are useful and popular, and Google knows how to do them well, so they’re continuously adding more features and options for customization to their Visualization API. The Google Code Blog recently highlighted a few of the newest features.

2009/06/16

Concerned a brain drain could hurt its long-term ability to compete, Google Inc. is tackling the problem with its typical tool: an algorithm. The Internet search giant recently began crunching data from employee reviews and promotion and pay histories in a mathematical formula Google says can identify which of its 20,000 employees are most likely to quit....

2009/06/16

Upload small or large data sets from spreadsheets or CSV files. Visualize your data on maps, timelines and charts. Pick who can access your data; hide parts of your data if needed. Merge data from multiple tables. Discuss your data with others. Track changes and discussions....

2009/01/13

De applicatie van de toekomst draait in de webbrowser. De techniek die dit mogelijk maakt, is Ajax. Eindgebruikers en softwareontwikkelaars zijn doorgaans enthousiast over deze techniek. Maar zonder problemen is het gebruik van Ajax zeker niet, constateren Arie van Deursen en Ali Mesbah. Zij stellen een aantal kritische vragen....

2008/03/20

2008/02/20

A new study overturns the common assumption that the ‘Google Generation' – youngsters born or brought up in the Internet age – is the most web-literate. The first ever virtual longitudinal study carried out by the CIBER research team at University C...

2008/01/29

Te vaak zien we een gebrekkige en/of halve implementatie van Google Analytics. Dit kan leiden tot onzorgvuldige metingen en incomplete data. Toch worden op die resultaten belangrijke beslissingen genomen die grote gevolgen kunnen hebben. Hieronder hebben...

2008/01/07

Google Analytics helps you find out what keywords attract your most desirable prospects, what advertising copy pulled the most responses, and what landing pages and content make the most money for you.