Comments on: Analytics According to Captain Kirk

By: Renaud Joly

Renaud Joly — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:43:42 +0000

I was in Lille Salon de Vente a Distance for Matt venue late 2009.
Thanks for a very pleasant conference about web analytics, and a drink in Le Monde Moderne.
Ready for SEO next time ?

By: Eric Troyer

Eric Troyer — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:55:32 +0000

Wonderful stuff! You might want to add this link to the “Red Shirt Boogie Blues.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3NYvX90Vfk&NR=1

By: Josh @ iD Tech

Josh @ iD Tech — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:21:24 +0000

This is absolutely hilarious!!!! In fact I think it deserves its own Wikipedia page. Next, can you analyze the A-Team?!

By: Nightgaunt

Nightgaunt — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:31:23 +0000

It must also be understood in the two pilots there were no red shirts used. “The Cage” and “Where No Man Has Gone Before” also in “Mirror Mirror” Sulu was security chief so he wore red (which fit him) better than command deck gold. Note Uhura word gold once in the series but otherwise wore red.

In the later series they didn’t follow the color code established which annoyed me no end.

On a curious side note, Voyage To the Bottom of the Sea had red suited crewmen who tended to die when ghosts, fossil men and aliens came aboard!

By: Jason Edwards

Jason Edwards — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:41:57 +0000

I was searching for statistics since I am taking an SPSS class. This was totally AWESOME.

By: Web Analytics PM

Web Analytics PM — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:59:47 +0000

LoL really cool idea this red shirt example from Star Trek

BTW: I have seen another quite interesting comparison of marketing topics with Star Trek here: http://christophercummings.com/blog/2009/05/12/your-blue-ocean-is-filled-with-tribbles/

cheers,
Thomas

By: somewhat

somewhat — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:52:22 +0000

In Charlie X, a red shirt is teleported into oblivion, but not killed. He is restored at the end of the episode, though not shown the alien who teleports back the female yeoman says “everything is how it was”, implying the red shirt is also restored.

By: USA Credit Unions

USA Credit Unions — Tue, 26 May 2009 04:10:57 +0000

This is great reading, but there’s another way to look at whether a red-shirt is more likely to die than another crewmember when on an away team. The heuristic is that a red-shirt that is on an away team is a sure fatality. What you really want to do is get number of deaths and number of crewmembers that went on away teams for each color of shirt. Then compare these percentages. One would need to decide whether to include main characters and this should be stated in the ground rules.

By: Dakoda

Dakoda — Sat, 09 May 2009 13:24:49 +0000

I’ve noticed one small problem. In episode 2 (Charlie X), Captain Kirk says that there are 428 crewmen on the ship. There were 3 crewmen killed in the first episode. Thus there are 431 crewmen on the Enterprise. Just something I noticed.

By: Wallpapers,widescreen wallpapers

Wallpapers,widescreen wallpapers — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:43:54 +0000

I don’t think people recorded the events of the subsequent series nearly as closely as TOS. So yes – it would have to be separate data in my opinion.The point of the article is to use Star Trek as a metaphor to understand website analytic. It isn’t intended as a star trek expose.