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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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Most efficient way to display a 1x1 GIF (tracking pixel, web beacon)

I'm building a basic analytics service, based in theory off of how Google Analytics works, but instead of requesting an actual image, I'm routing the image request to a script that accepts the data and then outputs an image. Since browsers will be…
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How to track user time on site

I'm looking to track users average time on a website (in the same way that Google analytics does) for internal administration. What's the easiest way to do this?
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When is Google Analytics not good enough?

I'm trying to determine why an enterprise wouldn't want to use Google Analytics. Here are the main reasons I've seen mentioned: Inability to track clients that have Javascript disabled. Lack of ownership of the statistics - Google owns the…
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How does Litmus track their email analytics?

So, 'Litmus', a web app for testing emails and webpages across browsers and email clients, has a proprietary method that they claim is able to track not just opens, clicks, browsers, etc (standard with an embedded image and pass-through link…
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Firebase analytics - how to see all the users properties in an event detail view

An event detail shows how many users triggered that event and how many times. Is there a way to also see a list of all the users who triggered it and see each user's properties?
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Which Flurry library should I use for universal iPhone/iPad apps?

Flurry has a separate analytics SDK for iPad apps vs iPhone apps. If I'm building a universal app to run on the iPhone 4.0+ and iPad 3.2+ (iPad native, not compatibility mode), does anyone know which SDK/lib I should use? And is there any reason I…
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How to export Firebase analytics data

I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to export all the Firebase Analytics data to an excel spreadsheet, similar to how you can do it with Google Analytics. From what I can find the only way to go about doing it is to link with BigQuery then do…
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What does "?ref=ts" mean in a Facebook application URL?

When Facebook drives traffic to an application, it often append &ref=whatever to the query string. This is useful for figuring out which integration points are working or not. I've figured out what some of these mean. For example: ref=bookmarks -…
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What are the most important statistics to look at when deploying a Node.js web-application?

First - a little bit about my background: I have been programming for some time (10 years at this point) and am fairly competent when it comes to coding ideas up. I started working on web-application programming just over a year ago, and thankfully…
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Mach-O error on Flurry integration Xcode

I'm attempting to integrate the Flurry SDK into my iOS app for the first time. I added the libraries and code to AppDelegate.m as explained in their instructions. When I compile I get the following errors: Undefined symbols for architecture…
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Do Traffic Graphs for a GitHub Project include Pages traffic?

Do the traffic graphs for a given project include the traffic data for the associated Pages site? I.e. does https://github.com/blackberry/Alice/graphs/traffic include traffic to http://github.com/blackberry/Alice If not, is that information…
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View Event parameters from events older than 30 minutes in Google Analytics (2021)

I am trying to track links users click on my site. I am able to see the links they are clicking on by going to Engagement -> Events -> Click -> link_url(Under parameter name), however I can not find a way to view this data after 30 minutes. After 30…
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How to track UTM tags in App Store URLs

I'm working on implementing my own analytics system. One part of it consists of tracking where users originated from. I use UTM tags for this. Reading UTM tags from the query parameters is quite easy in Android, iOS and web. However, I also want to…
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Race condition and using Google Analytics Asynchronous (_gaq) synchronously

I have a website which is using Google Analytics newer asynchronous tracking method (_gaq). The problem I've run into is that I want to institute some specific link tracking and am worried that I will be creating a race condition. Basically, it's a…
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What does PARTITION BY 1 mean?

For a pair of cursors where the total number of rows in the resultset is required immediately after the first FETCH, ( after some trial-and-error ) I came up with the query below SELECT col_a, col_b, col_c, COUNT(*) OVER( PARTITION BY 1 ) AS…
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