Comments on: Google’s Web Analysis Tools – Tracking the Retail Sector http://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/2009/03/03/googles-web-analysis-tools-tracking-the-retail-sector/ Analyzing the visual presentation of social data. Each post, Laura Norén takes a chart, table, interactive graphic or other display of sociologically relevant data and evaluates the success of the graphic. Sat, 31 Jan 2015 21:29:01 +0000 hourly 1 By: jesse http://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/2009/03/03/googles-web-analysis-tools-tracking-the-retail-sector/comment-page-1/#comment-53 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:53:17 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/?p=258#comment-53 What is this useful for? It seems a beautifully elegant way to visualize the pulse of consumer capitalism – one way to concieve of a rhythmanalysis (pace Lefebvre) – sure business cycles are things we all know about – but this does such a nice job of making them appear like a patient’s vital signs… a patient whose pulse has weakened somewhat recently.

It could be interesting to think of a battery of vital signs to use this for…
home mortgage calculators, different financial institutions’ websites…

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