An Interesting Look at US Sports
It’s interesting that searches for Football peak during the beginning of the season and are way down by the time the Super Bowl rolls around. The same happens for Baseball.
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Blast From the Past – Multidimensional Data Analysis
About eight years ago, I was analyzing television ratings at a leading network in Venezuela… when I came up with the following graph (see below). Rendering took forever in Excel, but the resulting image was not only beautiful, but highly informative. Have a look.
Seasonal searches are seasonal – Doh!
Well, according to this latest Google Trends report, it seems people make more searches for each season during that particular season. It seems kind of obvious, in retrospect… but it’s interesting to note that searches for “summer” begin much earlier than for any other season.
New Tools for Tracking NBC vs. CBS at YouTube
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Detailed CBS-YouTube Weekly Stats and Charts
I’ve been compiling data since CBS published their press release about their first month on YouTube. Here are some charts with the Top 15 videos from the CBS channel on YouTube. I began gathering data on November 21 and have charted the week from Nov. 22nd to Nov.28 (inclusive).