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 [...]

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 — anywhere [...]

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’t follow and followers that aren’t friends. I have seen a number of blog articles that go into long discussions about how [...]

When making weekly reports from the Google Analytics API, it is most efficient to download your data using Google’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 — just week numbers. Most people don’t think [...]

Next Analytics has an extensive search and replace capability (“Fix” 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’s Documents directory structure, making them reusable from multiple spreadsheet reports. By referencing files in the file system, though, each workbook is [...]

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.

This is part 2 of a series for the new Next Analytics user, walking through how to create a simple monthly summary report (see Part 1). In this article, I am going to explore how to show distribution of visits over a couple of dimensions:

Show the visits by the traffic source (medium)
Show the visits of [...]

Now that Next Analytics supports the Facebook API, it’s possible to build Excel dashboards and reports that automatically refresh with your Facebook fan page activity and fan demographic information. As with all programming interfaces, the Facebook API takes a little getting used to, so in this article, I will walk you through a quick introduction [...]

For a new Next Analytics user, the tool can seem quite daunting, so in this article, I will walk through how to create a simple monthly summary report using Next Analytics version 3.0. I am going to roll in a number of common challenges, including:

Show a common metric like visit count
Show a calculated metric like [...]

I was really disappointed this week when Hootsuite stopped telling me what Twitter messages were ‘new’ since the last time I looked. That was the number one reason I used it, and the Twitter interface is missing this valuable feature. Well, there were a few things that bugged me about both Hootsuite and even the [...]