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  • Designing Data – Part 3: Look at the Data

    We’re asked about our design all the time – usually in an incredibly kind way full of high fives and “how’d you do that?!”s but sometimes in a “ugh, did…

  • We’re On TV!

    We’ve been working closely with our good friends over at Patch since Chartbeat was born, essentially. They’re always testing out cool stuff and truly understand how to put real-time data to…

  • Designing Data – Part 2: User Research

    We’re asked about our design all the time – usually in an incredibly kind way full of high fives and “how’d you do that?!”s but sometimes in a “ugh, did…

  • Designing Data – Part 1: The Mindset

    We’re asked about our design all the time – usually in an incredibly kind way full of high fives and “how’d you do that?!”s but sometimes in a “ugh, did…

  • Meet the Five Women You’ll Be Working for in 2020

    Today, we had the most fun, rewarding, inspiring day at the Chartbase in…well…maybe ever. We invited five young ladies from The Young Women’s Leadership School of Astoria to join us…

  • “Journalism: It’s Just Like Parenting”

    Tony chatted with Sarah Marshall of Journalism.co.uk about the role of analytics in the newsroom. They talked about everything from uncovering hidden interest points in lesser-known players during the NFL…

  • EU Cookie Legislation and Your Chartbeat Data

    What’s a cookie and how does Chartbeat use them? Most data providers track certain visitor behavior by using cookies. Cookies can tell things like the difference between a new and…

  • Your Site, the Socialite: Introducing Social View & iOS Tracking Beta

    The world outside your website is tough to manage. You have die-hard fans extolling you in 140 characters. You have newbies who aren’t quite your target stumbling upon you via,…

  • Give into the Pressure. Introducing Peer Stats & Notable Pages

    We hate to break it to you, but you’re not in a monogamous relationship. Your audience has been seeing other sites. While your site is amazing at some stuff, it…

  • Chartbeat Is Engaged! Introducing Engaged Time

    Engagement: That elusive beast. Everyone wants it, no one knows just how to pin it down. So we’ve all been stuck with our second choice, the back up, plan B…

  • Chartbeat: The Next Generation

    Three years ago this month, Chartbeat launched at the web 2.0 summit. Today Chartbeat is beating under the hood of sites across 37 countries and takes the pulse of around…

  • Hacking Chartbeat

    The number one reason Chartbeat is as awesome as it is? We exclusively hire awesome people. And the backbone of our awesome resides in our team of engineers. When you…