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	<title>The Analytics Edge &#187; Excel</title>
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		<title>Facebook Like and Comment Sources</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/04/facebook-like-and-comment-sources/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/04/facebook-like-and-comment-sources/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On an Inside Facebook article this week, Josh Constine reveals how Facebook has recently improved the Facebook Insights API so it now reveals if page likes or comments came from a mobile device. With full access to the Facebook API, we thought we should show you how Next Analytics can pull this new information and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Google Analytics Keyword Tag Cloud in Excel</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/02/a-google-analytics-keyword-tag-cloud-in-excel/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/02/a-google-analytics-keyword-tag-cloud-in-excel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 01:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dashboard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=901</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have seen tag clouds used all over the web to visualize what keywords are the most  popular, and thought it would be a good additional to the Next Analytics dashboard collection.  Tag clouds can easily be applied to situations where you want to see what people are looking for or talking about &#8212; anywhere [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Friends and Followers &#8211; Comparing the Lists</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/02/twitter-friends-and-followers-comparing-the-lists/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/02/twitter-friends-and-followers-comparing-the-lists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[followers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friends]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=886</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the new Excel dashboards we released this week downloads the friends and followers of a given Twitter user, and then compares the two lists, generating a short list of friends that don&#8217;t follow and followers that aren&#8217;t friends. I have seen a number of blog articles that go into long discussions about how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Batch updates of Excel web analytics dashboards</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/01/batch-updates-of-excel-web-analytics-dashboards/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/01/batch-updates-of-excel-web-analytics-dashboards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LinkedIn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[batch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SQL]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=874</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Next Analytics was already the best Excel add-in for automating your Google Analytics reporting, but with the release of version 3,1, we have included a Batch Scheduler and a Command Line Utility that take things to a whole new level of automation. And with 3.1, you can also get Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and even SQL [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dates From Google Analytics Year-Week Numbers</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/01/dates-from-google-analytics-year-week-numbers/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/01/dates-from-google-analytics-year-week-numbers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 02:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[date formats]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=852</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When making weekly reports from the Google Analytics API, it is most efficient to download your data using Google&#8217;s year and week dimensions. This produces a row of data for each calendar week in the report, but it leaves you with a report that contains no dates &#8212; just week numbers. Most people don&#8217;t think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Embedding search and replace files in workbooks</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/01/embedding-search-and-replace-files-in-workbooks/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/01/embedding-search-and-replace-files-in-workbooks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAQ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tutorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fix]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=844</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Next Analytics has an extensive search and replace capability (&#8220;Fix&#8221; tab)  that includes regular expressions as well as partial and exact match functions. These expressions are saved into comma-separated-value (CSV) files in the user&#8217;s Documents directory structure, making them reusable from multiple spreadsheet reports. By referencing files in the file system, though, each workbook is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Browser Version Popularity Report</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/01/browser-version-popularity-report/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2011/01/browser-version-popularity-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 02:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tutorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[browser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visits]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=828</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw a tweet today about an old Google Analytics blog article about custom reporting, and in the comments, it seemed that everyone wanted a simple report showing the popularity of various browser versions. That is not a report you can make using Google Analytics custom reports, so it has gone unanswered…until now. Using the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA Map Overlay for Google Analytics in Excel</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/12/usa-map-overlay-for-google-analytics-in-excel/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/12/usa-map-overlay-for-google-analytics-in-excel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 02:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dashboard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[map overlay]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=731</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I made a quick little modification to the Map Overlay dashboard I described in our popular blog article, and produced the same dashboard, but focussed specifically on that USA market.


To make the modifications, I started by inserting a US country filter to each of the Google Analytics queries:
&#38;filters=ga:country%3D%3DUnited+States
I also changed the map parameters to zoom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change the Date Range of Our Free Dashboards</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/11/change-the-date-range-of-our-free-dashboards/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/11/change-the-date-range-of-our-free-dashboards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAQ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tutorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dashboard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microcharts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[script]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=734</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Next Analytics has a growing list (over 40) of free Excel dashboards and reports that work with our product. Each was created to report on a specific time period, be it 3 days or 13 months, that moves with the calendar so all you have to do is click Refresh and the time period is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trending Segments from Google Analytics Data</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/10/trending-segments-from-google-analytics-data/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/10/trending-segments-from-google-analytics-data/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tutorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[segmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trend]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=648</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was building an Excel dashboard last week, this time about traffic sources from Google Analytics, when I realized it was time to bring together two of the most useful analytics functions: trends and segmentation. We get a lot of requests for segmented trends, and we’ve published an interactive workbook with the functionality (Segmented Trends), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Multiple Google Analytics Profiles in One Report</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/10/how-do-multiple-google-analytics-profiles-in-one-report/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/10/how-do-multiple-google-analytics-profiles-in-one-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tutorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[account]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bounce rate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[microcharts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pageviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[profile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scorecard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[time on site]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visitors]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=637</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A number of people need to keep track of multiple web properties – their blog, support site, maybe a social media presence and their main web site. They may even have a series of related websites that they want to track independently. This week’s free Excel dashboard shows just how easily Next Analytics lets you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Screen height and width around the world</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/09/screen-height-and-width-around-the-world-2/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/09/screen-height-and-width-around-the-world-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 03:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resolution]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=601</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While working on our free spreadsheet report for last week, splitting the Google Analytics screen resolutions into a grid view, I noticed that some of the test sites had very different profiles of popular screen sizes. At first I thought this might be due to variation of discretionary capital (a.k.a. pocket money) in various countries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Google Analytics Map Overlay in Excel</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/09/a-google-analytics-map-overlay-in-excel/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/09/a-google-analytics-map-overlay-in-excel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dashboard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[browser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[connection speed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[countries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[duration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[engagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loyalty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[map]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visits]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=589</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the Microsoft Excel report element you’ve always wanted – showing a map of the world, highlighted to show where your website visitors come from. It is included in this week’s free dashboard, and Next Analytics will automatically create and update it. To learn more about the dashboard, see our Product pages. In this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does your website have a busy calendar?</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/08/does-your-website-have-a-busy-calendar/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/08/does-your-website-have-a-busy-calendar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[date formats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[day of week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pivot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[template]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visits]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=579</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Analytics uses a line chart across most of their pages, showing the trend of traffic over time. I guess the idea is that you can visually see trends from week to week, month to month, but that has never worked for me. The weekly bump and weekend dips make the chart busy and confusing. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day of Week Report for Google Analytics</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/08/day-of-week-report-for-google-analytics/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/08/day-of-week-report-for-google-analytics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tutorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[countries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[date formats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[day of week]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Landing Pages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[time on site]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trend]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=569</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is surprisingly hard to get day-of-week information out of Google Analytics, and the ‘best’ scenario I have heard is to compare one week to another. That’s not much of a trend, but I guess it’s something. With Next Analytics for Excel, there is a simple way to get reports by day-of-week that lets you create [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building One Excel Dashboard for Multiple Web Sites</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/08/building-one-excel-dashboard-for-multiple-web-sites/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/08/building-one-excel-dashboard-for-multiple-web-sites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[account]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dashboard]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=550</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a surprising number of people that are tracking multiple web sites with Google Analytics, and they often want to see a report or dashboard comparing and contrasting their performance. Next Analytics is one of the few products that makes this a simple task – here’s how.
First, Next Analytics allows you to log in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Powerful Analytics Tip Every Website Should Employ</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/08/powerful-analytics-tip-every-website-should-employ/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/08/powerful-analytics-tip-every-website-should-employ/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Example]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google Analytics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[content]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pagepath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pageviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[segmentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visits]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=540</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This blog article over at SEOmozBlog by Rand Fishkin professes the power of segmenting the usual trend charts by categories of pages, so it is easy to see whether traffic changes are due to blog articles or tutorial guides or whatever groupings make sense on your site. When I read the article, I immediately thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monthly Metrics &#8211; Measuring your Keywords</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/08/monthly-metrics-measuring-your-keywords/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/08/monthly-metrics-measuring-your-keywords/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 02:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=529</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jim Gianoglio over at LunaMetrics posted an interesting blog yesterday, suggesting that there is value in tracking the number of keywords referencing your site over time. He laid out an interesting argument that it is supposed to give you a good indication of how well you fair on search indexing and whether there are issues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Customer Intelligence from Google Analytics</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/07/customer-intelligence-from-google-analytics/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/07/customer-intelligence-from-google-analytics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=477</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was looking at a report from a customer intelligence vendor last week and got thinking that a lot of the same data was available in Google Analytics, but it wasn’t very accessible in the normal reports that people use. Now I wouldn’t suggest we can replace the paid service entirely, but the value of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Landing Page Performance Across Segments</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/07/landing-page-performance-across-segments/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/07/landing-page-performance-across-segments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bounce rate]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[time on site]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=469</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In this week’s Excel dashboard, we look at website landing pages – which ones are your most effective and how different visitor groups treat them. Four major segments are shown side-by-side: direct traffic, visits from search engines, visits from referring web sites, and clicks from paid advertising. Leveraging Excel’s conditional formatting makes it easy to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A What’s Changed Report for Google Analytics</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/07/a-whats-changed-report-for-google-analytics/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/07/a-whats-changed-report-for-google-analytics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[campaigns]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=460</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With all the online reports provided by Google Analytics, the one that seems to be missing, years after it was pointed out, is the What’s Changed  Report.  Way back in 2007, Avinash Kaushik wrote in his blog (Occam’s Razor) and his book (Web Analytics, An Hour a Day) about the wonderful value of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Segmentation in a Dynamic World</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/segmentation-in-a-dynamic-world/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/segmentation-in-a-dynamic-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 16:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=357</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As noted in Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik, as well as his popular books Web Analytics 2.0 and Web Analytics: An Hour a Day, the most important aspect of any web analytics initiative is getting to the actionable insights that drive strategic decisions. He says that from raw data alone, it is impossible to deduce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advanced Website Visitor Engagement Analysis I</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/advanced-website-visitor-engagement-analysis-i/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/advanced-website-visitor-engagement-analysis-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 02:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[engagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loyalty]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/?p=327</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of the templates and sample reports that I’ve posted simply demonstrate that Nextanalytics can produce all the same web reports you have seen elsewhere. But Nextanalytics can go so much further; we’re not just another quick and easy reporting tool – we can run with the big dogs.
In this example, we not only create [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analytics Fun – How Big is Your Display?</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/analytics-fun-how-big-is-your-display/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/analytics-fun-how-big-is-your-display/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 23:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=313</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I was digging into some web traffic from Brazil, I happened to notice that the most popular screen resolution was 1024 x 768. OK, that makes sense, but it got me thinking&#8230;with all the huge resolution desktop screens, wide screen laptops and odd-shaped mobile devices, just what is the most common size/shape of display [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Analytics Dashboard in Excel for GA</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/web-analytics-dashboard-in-excel-for-ga/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/web-analytics-dashboard-in-excel-for-ga/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 22:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=309</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Stephane Hamel of Immeria created a sample dashboard in Excel (link) that took off virally, becoming a popular starting point for others (link) (link) to create their own solutions. I applaud his work and his creativity. In the comments to his blog, though, a number of people found the complexity daunting. I am a strong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excel-based Website Visitor Dashboard</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/excel-based-website-visitor-dashboard/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/excel-based-website-visitor-dashboard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 01:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[connection speed]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=298</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Using the unique capabilities of the Nextanalytics add-in for Excel 2007 (2003 version also available), we whipped up a quick dashboard that combines many of the key visitor-tracking metrics from Google Analytics all on one page, and it’s all yours, in a Microsoft Excel workbook. Use it as-is or customize to suit your distinctive needs. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Analytics Content Overview Report in Excel</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/google-analytics-content-overview-report-in-excel/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/google-analytics-content-overview-report-in-excel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 00:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=289</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Third in the series (see Visitors overview, Traffic Sources overview) of Excel-versions of typical Google Analytics reports, the Content Overview report provides the detail on what web pages are the most popular. Starting with an overall trend chart showing page views totals by date, the report includes high-level counts and mini-trend-charts for both the page [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Website Visitors Overview Report in Excel</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/website-visitors-overview-report-in-excel/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/website-visitors-overview-report-in-excel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 00:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=283</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wanted your Google Analytics reports in Excel, so you can share them with your boss? Maybe add a tweak or two to reflect your (or ‘Her’) unique needs? Well, now you can, and you don’t have to be an Excel whiz to do it! Start with our XLS file, and simply enter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Analytics Reports for Bloggers</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/top-analytics-reports-for-bloggers/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/top-analytics-reports-for-bloggers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 21:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=265</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you run a blog, DailyBlogTips recommends the Top 5 Google Analytics Reports for Bloggers. We’ve produced a quick dashboard using Nextanalytics for Excel to give you access to all this information in one quick overview, refreshed with the click of a button. You&#8217;ll see (1) the top traffic sources that your visitors are coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traffic Sources Overview Report</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/traffic-sources-report/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/traffic-sources-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 20:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=253</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are looking for an Excel version of the standard Google Analytics Traffic Sources Overview, this is it, delivered using Nextanalytics for Excel. It includes the usual total visits trend and the top mediums listed on a percentage basis with micro-trends and a summary pie chart.  Across the bottom, it shows the top sources [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delivered: an Excel plug-in for Google Analytics</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/delivered-an-excel-plug-in-for-google-analytics/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/delivered-an-excel-plug-in-for-google-analytics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 19:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=251</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter O’Neill of Logan Tod posted an article outlining his requirements for an Excel plug-in for Google Analytics. After a couple of follow-up conversations with Peter, let me respond to his requirements list and show how Nextanalytics for Excel delivers the ideal solution.

First, Peter positioned his need as not just a techie solution, but something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Do I &#8230; Top 10 versus the Rest?</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/how-do-i-top-10-versus-the-rest/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/how-do-i-top-10-versus-the-rest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 21:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=232</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For many reports, it is good to see the largest items in a list (top 10 web pages, top 20 keywords, etc). You are only getting part of the story if you don’t keep those items in perspective to the whole – what was the total for all the rest of the items? In this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Excellent Google Analytics Tool!</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/an-excellent-google-analytics-tool/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/05/an-excellent-google-analytics-tool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 03:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=227</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is just SO cool! No more guessing at what you want &#8212; we built the ULTIMATE in interactive Google Analytics tools for Microsoft Excel. You get to see the query results as you build it, perform interactive segmentation, convert all those ugly URL&#8217;s into VP-friendly text, build those nasty KPIs and deliver it all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building a Website Overview in Excel</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/04/building-a-website-overview-in-excel/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/04/building-a-website-overview-in-excel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=203</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When building a dashboard for web reporting, people often want a quick summary or overview on the first sheet. In the overview, they’d like to see a few key traffic metrics as well as an indication of the trends over the period. This is easy to do with Nextanalytics and some simple Excel charting.


The common [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week-to-Week Trends in Web Traffic</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/04/week-to-week-trends-in-web-traffic/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/04/week-to-week-trends-in-web-traffic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When monitoring web sites, it is easy to get lost in the day to day details, and every now and then you need to step back just a bit and take a look at a larger picture. Usually longer term trends are viewed as a single line chart or page views or visits, and it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basic Visitor Profiling</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/04/basic-visitor-profiling/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/04/basic-visitor-profiling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=171</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a large number of dimensions and metrics recorded by Google Analytics, and each of them provides some unique insight into your web site visitors and their behaviour. When looking at the visitors, it helps to build a profile of where they are from, how they came to your site and what they used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick chart &#8211; trend of top countries</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/04/quick-chart-trend-of-top-countries/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/04/quick-chart-trend-of-top-countries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A sudden change in web site traffic appears and you have to explain it to your boss. Here is an example of a quick analysis using Nextanalytics for Excel with Google Analytics that not only gets to the information you need quickly, but it gives you repeatable presentation material with very little extra effort.

To start, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First-time web visitor landing page analysis</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/03/first-time-web-visitor-landing-page-analysis/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/03/first-time-web-visitor-landing-page-analysis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=145</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you want to analyze first-time visitors to your web site, where they land first is often a key question. Maybe you had an email campaign with embedded links or you want to measure traffic from blogs that targeted special landing pages. Your challenge is to identify and report on the traffic to these special [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adding interactivity: selecting a web profile</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/03/adding-interactivity-selecting-a-web-profile/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/03/adding-interactivity-selecting-a-web-profile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dashboard]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=105</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When building a web analytics dashboard, adding interactivity is often required to make the application truly useful. In this example, you will see how we can add a web profile selector to our web dashboard with very little effort.

In our previous examples, we created a daily web dashboard with a couple of front-page views into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making a pivot table simple</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/03/making-a-pivot-table-simple/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/03/making-a-pivot-table-simple/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=84</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By using Nextanalytics for Excel to load and pivot your data, you gain immediate access to information you can use. You don’t have to struggle with changing field formats, building transformation formulas or struggling with Excel’s complicated pivot tables.




Download sample data
We’ll start with a sample data set, downloaded here, that contains sales for bicycles and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changing the display date format</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/03/changing-the-display-date-format/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/03/changing-the-display-date-format/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=77</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When building a trend report with Nextanalytics for Excel, you have complete control over the date format displayed. By displaying only the year or month components, the data is automatically aggregated accordingly.

On the main Pivot tab, if you are working with a trend report and have placed a date in the Columns, the Format on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The easy way to convert date formats</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/03/the-easy-way-to-convert-date-formats-for-excel/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/03/the-easy-way-to-convert-date-formats-for-excel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Excel]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/?p=66</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you get data from other systems (or other countries), you will invariably run into a problem with incompatible date formats. With Nextanalytics for Excel, you can easily adapt to any incoming date format without much effort &#8212; and no formulas!

When you load a file into Nextanalytics for Excel, your incoming columns are listed, showing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adding a top 10 chart</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/03/adding-a-top-10-chart/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/03/adding-a-top-10-chart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/wp/?p=40</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is part of a series showing how easily you can build a daily web dashboard using Nextanalytics for Excel with the new Google Analytics connector. In this article, I want to show how to add a new item to an existing workbook (our Daily web dashboard). Along the way, you will see how easy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daily web dashboard</title>
		<link>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/03/daily-web-dashboard/</link>
		<comments>http://analyticsedge.nextanalytics.com/2010/03/daily-web-dashboard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.analyticsedge.com/wp/?p=28</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you track your web site with the Google Analytics web analytics service today, it is really easy to create a dashboard in Excel that shows key metrics of your web site &#8212; and refresh it daily with a single click! All you need is Nextanalytics for Excel along with your copy of Microsoft Excel [...]]]></description>
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