Top Fourteen Interfaces in Social Media and Web Analytics on the Internet

Gurus like  this   and  this should me but I think something is rotten in the state of analytics data visualizations on the web.

• Facebook Page Insights- Cool Viz- Blue Line Graphs
• WordPress prefers bar plots and spatial analysis (if only minimal)
  
  
•  Google Activity Dashboard prefers Tufte (?) . No it just shows fonts, and even a (gasp) pie chart.
  
  
• Scribd prefers  —yes tables and line graphs rule
  
  
• Slideshare Stats are a pro feature (!) . Free features are a table– sigh
  
  
• LinkedIn – was a pioneer but now  
  

• Linkedin Groups viz
  
  
• Quora Stats – hmm
  
  
• My Anti Virus still likes doughnuts
  
• OFFICIAL Twitter Analytics

source – https://decisionstats.com/2013/10/07/ads-and-analytics-on-twitter-is-a-lovely-platform-ads-twitter-ipo-analytics-socialmedia/

• Google Analytics – a synonym for data vizualization on the web  has Napolean March Chart  ambitions but fails to simplify beyond the simple and fails totally at the complex .
• That’s a pie chart, bitches!
• There is no data that can be displayed in a pie chart, that cannot be displayed BETTER in some other type of chart.” John Tukey

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