Data visualisation

We need to talk about digital dashboards

In the last few months, I’ve noticed a trend emerging at the analytics meetups and events I attend. People are talking more and more about digital dashboards. I’ve even heard people advocate throwing out monthly reports, as they hail the arrival of democratised data in the form of swish new dashboards.

Google courts enterprise marketers with launch of Analytics 360 Suite

Google has unveiled Analytics 360 Suite, “a complete measurement platform” targeted at enterprise marketers.

According to Google VP of Analytics, Display and Video Products, Paul Muret, Google Analytics 360 Suite is designed to give marketers “a complete view of the consumer journey and then make sense of it all.”

Once they have insight, Google aims to help marketers drive results.

Data visualization: 14 jaw-dropping examples

Sounds like a buzzword, but actually makes a lot of sense. Data visualization is the art of presenting often complex datasets in a visually engaging way. 


The hope is that presenting data in this way will make it more engaging and easier to understand, so it’s particularly helpful in terms of speaking to clients or internal stakeholders.  

With this in mind, I’ve brought together 14 of my favourite data visualization examples from across the web. 

Dear marketers, stop using generic stock images

It’s annoying that in 2016 a headline like this is still relevant. We’ve all poked fun at silly stock imagery, but it seems once the laughter fades some of us continue regardless.

I’d put it up there with meaningless buzzwords as one of the uglier sides of marketing that refuses to die.

And while it does provide people like me with ammo for our snark guns, it is also incredibly offensive to look at. 

Seven steps to building a successful mobile data capture model

It’s no surprise that when an industry explodes, its marketing channels are inundated with new players and technologies.

This can also mean high fragmentation among systems as companies try to capitalise on every tool available to them in a rapidly expanding new ecosystem.

When it comes to mobile marketing, this phenomenon couldn’t be more true in the domain of data capture.