Questions tagged [analytics]

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Analytics is typically the application of descriptive statistical methods to large data sets. This is usually in contrast to predictive methods, which relate to unseen data or to tasks that are dependent on the outcome of a model. Analytics is often related to reporting on databases and frequently arises in the context of "web analytics" - a field that encompasses analysis of site traffic, online revenue, site usage, and other interests.

Typical languages used for analytics are R , Python (especially Pandas), SPSS and SAS

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Flurry Analytics vs Google Analytics on the mobile platform

I am working on a mobile app on the Android platform (and going forward for the iPhone) and am evaluating the Flurry Analytics and Google Analytics platforms for the app. Both platforms have SDKs for the Android and the iPhone and seem very similar…
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Analytics dispatcher and configuration management for custom usage

I am looking for a component that would act as an event dispatcher for Android Analytics or for a whole custom Analytics solution. I found some pretty neat code from the recently released Parse Android SDK. I will use some part of it, if no other…
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Firebase: There was an unknown error while processing the request. Try again.

I'm just trying to creating new project in Firebase but getting this error every time.
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How to read events from Google Analytics API?

How do I read custom events from the Google Analytics API (e.g. with the help of gapi.class.php)? If I have three events (myEvent1, myEvent2 and myEvent3) and they all belong to eventCategory myEventCategory, how do I read that data? I have been…
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Is there any way to track whether an email has been opened?

I'm beginning to work on mailing-list software we use internally (EDIT: though we send emails externally as well, so we can't enforce policy on mail clients). Is there any way to track whether, when I send an email to a particular user, that email…
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Does Flurry Analytics for iOS/Android/Blackberry work when offline?

Flurry Analytics tracks analytics for mobile devices, similar to Google Analytics. However, we cannot find technical information regarding this question: Does Flurry tracks analytics when users are offline, then posts them when users come back…
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How to decode google gclids

Now, I realise the initial response to this is likely to be "you can't" or "use analytics", but I'll continue in the hope that someone has more insight than that. Google adwords with "autotagging" appends a "gclid" (presumably "google click id") to…
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React + Router + Google Tag Manager

I've been spending a bit of time developing an MVP at quickcypher.com. I wanted to start putting in some analytics, and it worked great for just tracking total visits, but things went south when I tried to track different URLs on my site that uses…
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Google Analytics API and .Net

Google announced the Analytics Data Export API some days ago, thereby making it much easier to get analytics data for a site. The API debuted with Java and Javascript clients, but no direct .Net support (other than going straight for the XML). It…
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How to get rid of Google's dynamite measurement in APK?

Since a long while now (a year or more), I see app crashes reported in Play Console (production and prelaunch reports) and some error message when debugging about dynamite measurement from Google's Play Services, for example: W/02:14:21.497 at…
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View full device breakdown in Firebase

On the Firebase Analytics Dashboard they display summary data for device and OS breakdown but it does not show the complete breakdown (in my case meaning I can't view the breakdown for 44.7% of my user base). Is there anywhere in Firebase I can…
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Keyword analysis in PHP

For a web application I'm building I need to analyze a website, retrieve and rank it's most important keywords and display those. Getting all words, their density and displaying those is relatively simple, but this gives very skewed results (e.g.…
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Tracking email opens in Google Analytics

We have tracking in our emails to track clicks back to our site through Google Analytics. But is there a way to track opens? I would imagine I have to add a google tracking image to the email somewhere. Possibly javascript too?
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Apple iTunes Connect Analytics: attribution provider and campaign id value passing to the app delegate

The new iTunes connect has analytics features now. You can specify the provider (pid) id and campaign id (cid) in the url. e.g. https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/candy-crush-saga/id553834731?mt=8&pid=1234&cid=My_Campaign Can you pass those values…
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Open source alternative to Tableau?

I am looking for an interactive exploratory tool to embed in a commercial application. I am looking for a commercial-friendly licensed open source alternative to the wonderful Tableau system
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