2014 DR XC Alumni Race Results

Well it was another fun race this year, especially with the added surprise of no water on the gas pipes. I will try and post up results here from now on along with some added analysis. I'll probably take a look at how runners progress as they get older, perhaps how course conditions affected times.

Either way, we had 15 participants this year with their times below. Please let me know if I misspelled any names.

ThinkUp: Personal Twitter Analytics

As a fan of various TWiT.TV shows, I learned about a website that will analyze your Twitter account. Given my curiosity around social media analytics, I figured I'd give it a shot. Although I'm not the most active Twitter user, I was curious what it could tell me and what they thought other people would be interested in.

Their analysis seems to be split into a few categories:

• Analysis of your tweet contents
• Analysis of responses to your tweet
• Analysis of your friends and followers profiles

Overall, it's pretty interesting. It helps me manage my "brand" as it comes across on Twitter. For example, I can make sure I vary the content of my tweets and not just talk about myself in the majority of tweets. I also enjoy knowing what times I should tweet in order to get the best response.

Being the curious analytics person I am, there are a few other facts / insights I would like to see:

• When are my followers most active?
• Who else should I follow? 
• What is the general sentiment of my tweets?

You can view my ThinkUp page for a nice example, although there are some better ones out there.