Comments on: Converting Google Analytics to States based information

by: Tom Cotton

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:23:42 +0000

Some other problems to be aware of:
* If the town is not spelt correctly, then it will not find it in the reference table.

* Check for Variations - eg Albury Wodonga | Albury-Wodonga | Albury/Wodonga really should be either Albury or Wodonga but not both.

* If there are two Australian towns of the same name, the first one will be used to return the State information - eg Abbotsford is in both NSW and Vic. Out of ~13000 towns, 1600 names are shared across different States.

* If the town appears to be spelt correctly but does not work then check if there are any stray spaces before or after the your town names.

* If your town name is not specified or not Australian, it will produce an #N/A not available error.

by: Tom Cotton

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:18:46 +0000

You’re right - thinking back - I reckon I did precisely that. One curious ‘feature’ was the amount of data exported was related to the number of rows shown. The export did not default to ‘all’.

by: Nick L

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:13:30 +0000

A small tip: under the report title (and above the map) there is a button called “export” - CSV or TSV are probably the most useful for this.

Ideally, of course it would let you auto-import that data into a Google Docs spreadsheet…..