I’ve been awfully busy over the past few months (sheesh! almost a year) helping out nModal Solutions get it’s Datamartist product up and onto the ‘net. I am very pleased to announce that the public beta is now open, and anyone can download and try the app out (which I would totally encourage you to do).
Datamartist (named by yours truly) is application for cleaning, manipulating and transforming data sets in ways that used to require SQL query knowledge or days and days of effort in excel. It uses a graphical interface of connected blocks to do some absolutely wicked things to your data. As well, it also exports nicely into excel, so you can still analyze it in ways you are used to.
You can watch the tutorial i built for the product here: http://www.datamartist.com/video-and-screenshots which should give you a good idea of how it works.
We’ve done some testing with super large data sets too. And I mean crazy, stupid, nutty large. 100 Million rows of data large. I think excel gets a bit barfy on anything more than 1,000,000 rows.
You can learn more here: http://www.datamartist.com/learn-more if you are interested. So if you do any sort of manipulation of large data sets (data marts or data warehouses if you will) please check it out, and don’t hesitate to crush me with feedback on either the app or the website.
Graeme Everyday Errata beta, data, Datamartist, mart, warehouse
I’ve been working a lot lately on building marketing videos and tutorials for Datamartist, and one of the things i would like to do with them, is to know how many people have watched them and at what point they are dropping off.
I’ve been using the Camtasia Studio 6 product to build these videos and its pretty nifty software, but its call out functionality is not as robust as Adobe Captivate’s. Now, according to this tutorial (found here originally) from Paul Betty at Regis University it is indeed possible to use a call out with the GA javascript function. I have not however been able to get it to work thus far. The call appears to be setup correctly and the google analytics code is in the page and functioning, but I’m not seeing the results in my reports.
Googling has proved relatively fruitless in this endeavor, as there are not a lot of resources in this area. In fact, the video by Paul linked above is really the only one. I’ll keep working on it, but it would be really nice if someone figured it out and posted something, you know, for the good of human kind.
—-
Update!
As we have a license for this product we thought we’d hit up their support to see what we’re doing wrong. It turns out that for Camtasia Studio 6 they are automatically adding “http://” to the beginning of any custom call out to a URL, breaking the javascript functionality seen in Paul’s video above, which was done in version 5. There was some indication that this might be changed in a future release, but for the moment if you want to track video usage, either stay with Camtasia 5 or switch to captivate.
Graeme Everyday Errata Camtasia, Datamartist, google analytics
Recent Comments