You may have noticed in your local supermarket, coffee shop or video store an exciting new item - Google Analytics Gift Cards )beta(! They're good for redeeming in any Google Analytics profile for additional intelligence in your Intelligence reports . And the great part is, you can give them away to friends or colleagues who you think could benefit from more Intelligence. They're the perfect gift for your boss's upcoming birthday.

If you're reading this blog, chances are very high that you value data, and chances are also high that you appreciate the presentation of data. Going beyond a spreadsheet of rows and columns and creating a visualization is not only pleasing to the eye, but it can also help put meaning and context to the data and help surface important meanings. As practical as rows and columns of numbers are, sometimes a lot more can be divined a lot faster from a simple pie chart.

This is part 3 of a timely 3 part guest post on mobile analytics strategy and implementation by Feras Alhlou at E-Nor , a Certified Partner in Northern California. Here's part 1 , which explained how to look for trends in mobile traffic to your website, and here's part 2 about giving your reports more dollar power. 3. Act on your ROI At this point, you are equipped with your positive trends and the )hopefully high!( revenue numbers generated on mobile devices.

Did you know that you can easily get more than 10,000 rows of data from Analytics using the API? Auto-Pagination through the API Here is a quick overview on how to do auto-pagination with our API. You might also follow along by checking the fully working sample code in Python which you can use in your own applications. The following sample query fetches the first 10,000 keywords by conversion rate for the month of February: https://www.google.com/analytics/feeds/data ?

We hope your holiday season is going well, and you're full of good cheer and data driven egg nog )which doesn't really exist unless you love web analytics and have imbibed too much egg nog(. For those of you who really do dig web analytics and use Google Analytics specifically - you're going to really like our next gift. It's from the Santa Claus of the web analytics industry, Avinash Kaushik, the analytics evangelist here at Google.

Google Analytics is now available to Google Apps users with their Apps accounts, along with dozens of other services as part of a recently launched improvement . Google Apps is Google's suite of cloud-based messaging and collaboration apps, including Gmail, calendar, documents, spreadsheets, and more, specifically optimized for use in organizations. These services, which run entirely in the cloud, are used by over 30 million users in small and large businesses,

Talk about organic...Read about incredible organic growth below, and how Analytics helped enable it. We love to share these types of stories because they show practical usage cases of finding success with analytics. Enjoy. Turning a hobby into a full-time job isn't always an easy feat. Zach Weiner started drawing comics in high school and he never expected he'd make a career of his clever anecdotes.