[Follow our blog posts, obsession with data, and original articles on Twitter @RJMetrics] In college, I took a course called “Regression and Applied Time Series.” The cornerstone of the course was a competition called the “OJ Game” in which a dozen student teams operated fictional orange juice companies over several simulated years. The concept may [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Vandelay Industries, eCommerce, and Orange Juice: Fun with Data Simulations
January 30, 2009 – 1:27 am
How It Works: RJMetrics Flash Movie
January 27, 2009 – 8:55 am
Sometimes, we find that it’s difficult to concisely summarize all of the benefits of the RJMetrics Business Intelligence Dashboard. So, we created a two and half minute flash movie that we hope will help visitors to our website quickly get a sense of what kinds of things our software can do and if RJMetrics is [...]
Using Data To Debunk Myths About The Third World
January 25, 2009 – 5:42 am
This video is from a TED conference in 2006, but it’s new to me and maybe to some of you as well. The content, data visualization, and presentation are all amazing. Hans Rosling, a professor of international health and director of the Gapminder Foundation, shows some incredibly enlightening statistics about the third world. The video is [...]
RJMetrics vs. Google Analytics
January 22, 2009 – 1:37 pm
“How is RJMetrics different from Google Analytics?” It’s a great question, and it’s one we hear frequently. Both tools can be extremely valuable, but the truth is that RJMetrics and Google Analytics live and work in separate worlds. We analyze completely different data for very different purposes. It’s easy to see why some view us [...]
RJMetrics Dashboard Overview
January 15, 2009 – 11:56 am
We are happy to say that we have been receiving a lot of inbound interest at RJMetrics. In order to answer some of your questions and give an overview of what the dashboard is all about, we recorded the five minute demo below. In the video we give some background information, introduce the major concepts, [...]
PHP, MySQL and SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding)
January 6, 2009 – 1:08 am
An in-depth look at SSH Tunneling, one of the secure data transfer methods used here at RJMetrics. Includes background information, code samples, and more.
