I love writing, and I also love data. When starting my blog, I integrated Google Analytics — it's free, easy to set up (just drop a few tags on the page), and that's what I knew back then. I did not enjoy it being run by a big corporation, but I was too lazy to research the alternatives, and then pay for them. But when Google announced sunsetting the current generation of analytics, and I had to take some action at any rate, I decided to pull the trigger and make a jump to an open-source al...
