Comments on: JISC Project Blog Metrics – Making Use of WordPress Stats. Plus, An Aside… http://blog.ouseful.info/2011/12/15/jisc-project-blog-metrics-making-use-of-wordpress-stats-plus-an-aside/ Trying to find useful things to do with emerging technologies in open education Mon, 20 May 2013 17:09:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Analysing Wordpress post velocity and momentum stats with Google Sheets (Spreadsheet) JISC CETIS MASHe http://blog.ouseful.info/2011/12/15/jisc-project-blog-metrics-making-use-of-wordpress-stats-plus-an-aside/#comment-30028 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:51:46 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=6633#comment-30028 [...] Tony Hirst’s Making Use of WordPress Stats which pulls data from the WordPress Stats API into a Google Sheet (Spreadsheet) I created a [...]

]]> By: How JISC CETIS dashboard social activity around blog posts using a splash of data science JISC CETIS MASHe http://blog.ouseful.info/2011/12/15/jisc-project-blog-metrics-making-use-of-wordpress-stats-plus-an-aside/#comment-24707 Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:27:09 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=6633#comment-24707 [...] wordpress.com another way was required. Fortunately Tony Hirst has already demonstrated a method to pull data from the WordPress Stats API into Google Spreadsheets. Following this method stats are imported to a ‘Scott’sStats’ sheet and tallied up with a [...]

]]> By: mhawksey http://blog.ouseful.info/2011/12/15/jisc-project-blog-metrics-making-use-of-wordpress-stats-plus-an-aside/#comment-17997 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:16:46 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=6633#comment-17997 I wouldn’t change a thing. Yes you could start adding Apps Script to the backend, but it’ll just add layers of complication. Its easy to forget how powerful the built in spreadsheet functions can be.

Regarding selective publication of spreadsheet data Google currently have 2 options, publish all sheets or just one sheet. So what you could do it use formula to extract data from the individual sheets onto a summary sheet.

A good formula to do this is a combination of EXPAND and ARRAYFORUMULA eg =EXPAND(ARRAYFORMULA(Views!A2:B)) – entering this cell once will populate it with the values from the selected range on the Views sheet.

It’s worth noting that I’m not including the header row in this example because if you do when you ‘Publish to the web’ Google tries to be too clever and footnotes the source url. This is probably best seen in this example where for demonstration purposes I’ve publish all the sheets to the web and you can see the right way to create a summary page and the wrong way.

Here’s a link to the modified source spreadsheet if your readers want to look at the formula

]]> By: Wonder Food Blog http://blog.ouseful.info/2011/12/15/jisc-project-blog-metrics-making-use-of-wordpress-stats-plus-an-aside/#comment-17987 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:26:31 +0000 http://blog.ouseful.info/?p=6633#comment-17987 I actually think more and more people are going back to basics. Look at how many people now are growing their own veg, camping holidays, farming and with economic difficulties many can’t afford to have everything done for them. So we may see a ‘return’ to basic skills. I like your blog btw.

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