Monthly Archives: July 2019

An Interview About My Work as a Data Analyst

I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Simon Ouderkirk about my journey to becoming a data analyst and lessons learned along the way. You can check out a recording of the interview here:

This came about because Simon volunteered to start this interview series for the Locally Optimistic data community. And because Simon and I have worked closely together for a number of years (first when I was full time at Automattic and now as a consultant), he pinged me to see if I wanted to be a guinea pig for this first interview :).

If data and analytics interest you, I highly recommend checking out the Locally Optimistic blog and Slack community linked to above; you’ll walk away thinking a lot more deeply about data, metrics, and running an effective analytics organization. You can also follow Simon on Twitter to learn about future interviews in this series.

Timeglider Acquisition

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I’ve got some big news to share today: Preceden has acquired Timeglider, one of the other big players in the online timeline maker space.

Here’s the announcement: Preceden Acquires Timeglider.

This was my first meaningful acquisition: back in December 2017 I did buy and redirect the domain for Timerime, another timeline maker tool, but the site had shut down several months prior so it was merely a matter of buying the domain. Timeglider on the other hand is an active business with paying customers, recurring revenue, IP, etc – which made this quite a bit more complicated and required lawyers and paperwork and whatnot. I learned a lot, but am also very happy it’s behind me.

Now comes excuting on it and recouping the cost in a hopefully reasonable amount of time. I’ll probably write more about the data and analytics piece of this in the future, but for now, just wanted to share the news!