Jeff Chin
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- Sep 01, 10
Ella
It’s hard not to be happy when in the company of my niece Ella. Amanda and I got to babysit her for an evening back in June. She has grown up so much in just a few short months.
View Pictures: Babysitting Ella on Flickr
Filed under: pictures - Aug 31, 10
Yesterday I saw a guy walking down the street with a huge parrot on his shoulder. No biggie.
Dude walking down the street with a parrot
Filed under: pictures, random Tagged: parrot, strange people - Aug 30, 10
One of the reasons why I’ve been so busy this year is because of all the big events. Along with three weddings (mine included) comes three bachelor parties. As of this post, we’ve already gone through two of them, and they’ve both been an awesome time. I’ll get to the second one in a future post, but first things first.
Dave was the first to get married this year, so to celebrate we planned a guy’s weekend in Lake Tahoe. I’ve never been there before, but have seen Dave’s video from his trips and it looked amazing. It was as blue and awesome as I imagined which really lent itself towards taking a lot of very blue photographs. I invested in a polarizing filter for my relatively new dSLR camera. The weekend was filled with Kan Jam, wine, hiking and biking. I took a ton of pictures so check out a few below and a couple of sets on Flickr too:
All of Dave’s Bachelor Party in Lake Tahoe (289 photos)
Best of Dave’s Bachelor Party in Lake Tahoe (53 photos)The guys hiking at Lake Tahoe
Don and his new lobster friend
Wine + Grilling = Perfect Weekend
Filed under: pictures, travel - Aug 25, 10
Angels and Airwaves at 9:30 Club
Back in May – one of my many favorite bands over the last 5 years is Angels and Airwaves. Couple that with my favorite local venue – 9:30 club, and you got a great night. As always, I locked down my position at the back bar right by the VIP area. Good vantage point with easy access to the back bar. That’s just how it goes in my old age. Check out the rest of the pictures here on Flickr.
Filed under: life, music, pictures - Aug 02, 10
I love that Gatorade is taking analytics seriously enough to give it its own campaign. Check out their mission control area where they monitor their website, commercials, twitter, and facebook interactions.
via: Mashable
Filed under: analysis, industry, video Tagged: analytics, gatorade, video, youtube - Jul 15, 10
Sometime in the last year or so, my camera started to take pictures slower than I could draw them, and also had developed a line of dead pixels. I think it was mostly because I didn’t take care of it and shoved it in my linty pockets instead of storing it in a case. I hemmed and hawed over what to buy next. Should I finally get a dSLR, or stick with a point and shoot? I decided not to decide. Thanks to a great financing deal at Best Buy, I got a new P&S and my first dSLR. A major factor was our choice of honeymoon spots (more on that later), and thinking of all the great shots I would be missing if I only had my slow P&S.
New P&S: Canon PowerShot SD1400 IS:
I haven’t used this camera extensively yet because I have been mostly messing around with the dSLR. It’s pretty much the same as my previous camera, with a couple more bells and whistles. The most important factor was the HD video recording capability. Like I said, I don’t use it that often, so not much video has been captured either. It’s form is very tiny, so that’s good for transporting, but a little harder to take those self-composed pictures of me and Amanda.
New dSLR: Canon EOS Rebel T1i:
I went against the grain a little bit here by going Canon instead of Nikon, which most of my friends have. I found it to fit better in my hands, and also was used to the menu system. I’m still shooting in all the auto modes, but I’m very pleased with the picture quality, and mostly the speed of capturing a moment. My first “shoot” was for my niece’s month party. It’s hard to get used to lugging around a huge camera, but the pictures make it worth it. Here’s one of my favorites.
Check out the rest of the set on Flickr: Ella’s Month Party
Filed under: life, pictures - Jul 10, 10
Wow, a lot has gone on in the past 4-5 months since I last posted. I hope to get back to posting a little more regularly, if not just to link to the pictures I’ve been taking in my Flickr photostream.
Since our trip to Horton and Barboursville Wineries:
- I’ve moved offices. Same company, but now I’m downtown. I had a nice period of almost a year and a half where I only had to walk 13 minutes down the street to the office in Courthouse, so I can’t complain. I’ve always wanted to work closer to the city, and not have to deal with a 45+ mile roundtrip commute. I now have to deal with the mess that is the metro, but so far, not too bad. This is a huge difference (and improvement) from my last two companies that were located deep into the ‘burbs out in Dulles/Sterling and Rockville/Gaithersburg. Here’s a pic of my new desk area right after we moved. It’s pretty bland, but I try to make it up to the newsroom (where the action is) as much as possible. There’s also the benefit of seeing some unique events that only happen in the downtown office – like the annual Peeps contest voting.
- Sometime in April or so, we wrapped up our Caps season. We had a kickass season, won the President’s Trophy, but fizzled out early and lost to the Montreal Canadiens during the first round of the playoffs. Another fun season, but a worse Playoff run. Hockey was pretty much dead to me after they lost. It’s amazing how it affects our group of friends who are all pretty heavily invested in the success of the Caps. If we’re pissy, we probably lost.
Ovie - MVP?
Well that’s it for the first entry into summing up the last 4-5 months. Stay tuned for more…
Filed under: life, pictures Tagged: capitals, catching up, hockey, move, offices, pictures, playoffs, wapo, washington post - Mar 26, 10
Finally, Spring is here. I was definitely tired of the snow piled up on the streets for weeks. To celebrate, and get out of the house, we took a day trip down towards Charlottesville to visit a couple wineries for the day (Barboursville and Horton). We picked up a few bottles, and look forward to drinking them on our rooftop this summer.
See C-Ville Wineries on Flickr.
Great weather at Barboursville
Filed under: food & drink, pictures, travel Tagged: barboursville, spring, weather, winery - Mar 17, 10
- 1987: Balloon Launch day at Fairview Elementary
While going through my baby book at my parents house, I stumbled onto this gem of a picture that my dad snapped. Back in 1987, near the end of the school year, was a great (and soon realized environmentally irresponsible) tradition of launching hundreds of balloons into the air. I think the idea was that if you tied your personal information onto the balloon, when someone found it, they could become your pen pal. Not sure why anyone would want that?
I love finding old pictures like these. Did anyone else have a balloon launch at their elementary school?
Filed under: life, pictures Tagged: balloon launch, elementary school, old school picture - Mar 12, 10
Last week I got to go to my first Omniture Summit. For those that don’t know, we use Omniture at work to measure everything about what people do on our site. The summit is a gathering of all the vendors, clients and Omniture employees to figure out what is going on in the web analytics world and what the trends in the industry are. Yeah, it sounds pretty nerdy, but it’s what I do! I gotta say, I enjoyed being immersed in learning and thinking about the different ways real companies are out there solving problems – and how we can do it better. On top of all that I won a business card drawing from one of the sessions (more on that one later).
As you can imagine, the conference costs a decent amount of money, which allows them to bring in great speakers, and entertainment for the week. This year, the big speakers were John Battelle, marketing guru Seth Godin, and The Killers! They were awesome. I hope to go again next year. But enough of that talk – I just wanted to share a few pictures that I took…
Seth Godin speaking at Omniture Summit 2010
View of the mountains from my hotel room
I woke up to this in the morning!
Killers playing at The Rail in SLC
Filed under: industry, life, travel Tagged: john battelle, omniture, omniture summit, salt lake city, seth godin, travel
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- WHEN I LOOK AT THE PAGEVIEW GOALS FOR THE UPCOMING MONTH
Sorry to our newsroom! This thing works!
I’m starting to see how often sites send alerts out throughout the day, but it’s most interesting when there’s a single event that everyone is alerting their users of. For five primaries that apparently didn’t matter - there were a total of 23 breaking news alerts were sent out from seven news outlets. For some, it was a minute by minute approach, where others waited until all the action ended before sending out an alert. Here’s how it broke down:
FoxNews - First to alert @ 8:21, total of 5 alerts
MSNBC - Tied for second to alert 8:24, total of 4 alerts
Politico - Tied for second to alert @ 8:24, total of 5 alerts
The Washington Post - Next to alert @ 8:36, total of 4 alerts
LA Times - went with one wrap up alert @ 9:11
USA Today - also went with one alert but much later @ 9:40
WSJ - similar strategy to USAT and LA Times but late to the party @ 9:45- Tracking Breaking News Alerts
At work, I often hear how competitive it is to break news before other sources. We’ve always wanted to log and automate it for competitive reasons. It’s been hard to automate until recently thanks to the help of one of my favorite sites IFTTT. Only one day of alerts in it so far, but very cool to see all the breaking news alerts visualized on a calendar, what news orgs alert which events, and how fast they are to alert.
I can’t wait until there’s a month worth of alerts. Should be interested to see if we can glean any knowledge from this. Below is a screen grab from my google calendar of the first day of news alerts. So far I’m tracking: The Washington Post, NY Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, Fox News and a few local news stations…
I think it was a great battle. He made some big hits, some big hits. So I’m going to enjoy it, actually.”
-Alex Ovechkin(via Matt Hendricks Embarrasses Tim Thomas in the Shootout)
Time to do this to Tim Thomas again.
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- Director of Analytics at The Washington PostOnline Media | Washington D.C. Metro Area, USSummarySpecialties: - Web Analytics - Dashboard Design and Automation - Competitive Analysis - Omniture SiteCatalyst and Discover - Omniture SiteCatalyst and Quantcast Implementation - Omniture SiteCatalyst and Quantcast Administration - Omniture ReportBuilder and ExcelClient - User segmentation - Business Objects - Unica NetInsight - Nielsen Online & ComScore - Hitwise - Quantcast - Forecasting - Web Performance Optimization AnalysisExperience
- Apr 2012 - PresentDirector, Analytics / The Washington Post
- Jul 2010 - Apr 2012Manager, Analytics / The Washington Post- Manage team responsible for technical implementation of Omniture and other analytics solutions. - Build automated dashboard reporting - Analyze user behavior on washingtonpost.com and Slate Group properties and mobile products. - Work closely with newsroom and business groups, using data to guide decisions and recommend solutions.
- Jan 2010 - Jul 2010Site Traffic Manager / The Washington Post- Maintain Omniture SiteCatalyst and provide ongoing training and support for 400+ users. - Collect and interpret business requirements to ensure that analytics data can successfully facilitate business and product decisions. Work closely with development team to guide Omniture SiteCatalyst implementation for washingtonpost.com, mobile.washingtonpost.com, The Washington Post iPhone/iPad application, slate.com, theroot.com, foreignpolicy.com, and thebigmoney.com. - Conceptualize, build and automate dashboard reports to guide tactical and strategic editorial and business decisions using Excel and Omniture ReportBuilder. - Collaborate with editorial and business stakeholders to build forecasts and recommendations to grow audience reach and engagement.
- Oct 2008 - Jan 2010Web Marketing Analyst / Washington Post DigitalAnalyzed site traffic and user engagement for washingtonpost.com and The Slate Group websites (includes slate.com, theroot.com, thebigmoney.com and foreignpolicy.com). Used SiteCatalyst, DataWarehouse and Discover to segment site traffic.
- Jan 2008 - Oct 2008Web Analyst / InvestorPlace Media- Analyzed web site performance, trends and visitor segment data for a network of 30+ websites. - Implemented Unica and Quantcast tagging on 10+ web properties. - Published weekly KPI metrics book with analysis to report on the health and status of key sites. - Provided weekly, monthly, and ad hoc reporting in order to help business owners understand traffic patterns, key site metrics, marketing performance, and opportunities for improvement. - Evangelized web analytics, data and metrics. - Provided ongoing training and support for more than 40 users of Unica NetInsight.
- Sept 2002 - Jan 2008Senior Systems Analyst / AOL- Analyzed the performance of AOL properties (including AOL.com) using Keynote Systems and internal proprietary tools to monitor availability, achieve faster page load times and improved user experience. - Conducted training for new analysts in the US as well as on-location in Bangalore, India on analysis techniques and data processing. - Experience with Omniture SiteCatalyst and ComScore. - Monitored and analyzed performance of AOL Client software throughout beta development cycles as well as post release upgrades and maintenance. Analyzed large volumes of proprietary log file data to uncover disconnect, connect failure and crash rates of US and European software clients. - Managed and mentored interns. - Participated in system design and requirement document creation and review for projects and reporting requirements. - Promoted from Associate Systems Analyst and Systems Analyst.
Education-
2007 - 2012The George Washington University
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1998 - 2002James Madison University
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