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Benchmarking Performance: Your Options, Dos, Don'ts and To-Die-Fors!

Occam's Razor

In my case I'm looking at Social Media (boss LOVES social!), A common source of such benchmarks (be it digital marketing or SEO or Landing Pages or anything really) is extensive surveys an organization might send out to a hand selected group or tweeted to the masses via social media. Direct Traffic (I get a lot of it!)

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Great Storytelling With Data: Visualize Simply And Focus Obsessively

Occam's Razor

The Directors, the Marketers, the Optimization employees and our resident social media gurus. This is a lot less pretty, but a lot more effective… The use of colors helps drag your eye to the column that's actually important, the red is effective at giving the core message (I should have made the 21 green, dang!),

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Data Visualization Inspiration: Analysis To Insights To Action, Faster!

Occam's Razor

It is easy to see the outliers, countries that are bunched together, and wonder if you need to find a job in Iceland as they can afford four-star hotels much more than others! The green intensity drags our eyes to handful of cells we need to look first. It is pretty nice. I like the last option the best. How many tourists? Sugar cane.

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