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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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What is the difference between google tag manager and google analytics?

I am reading about web analytic and came across GTM and GA. It seems that GA is a service provided by Google which generates reports and statistics on website traffic. As per my limited understanding in order to generate these reports we need to…
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Best place to insert the Google Analytics code

Where’s the best place to insert the Google Analytics code in WordPress, header or footer? I prefer footer, because I wanted my site to load faster by reducing the number of scripts in the header, but can it work even if the script is in the footer?
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What is the default username and password for Grafana login page?

what is default username and password for Grafana for http://localhost:3000/login page ? attaching a home page screenshot also. I want to watch mySql database for through it.
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How do I track file downloads

I have a website that plays mp3s in a flash player. If a user clicks 'play' the flash player automatically downloads an mp3 and starts playing it. Is there an easy way to track how many times a particular song clip (or any binary file) has been…
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Simple NGINX log file analyzer

I'm looking for a simple tool to analyze my NGINX logs on my macbook. I want to be able to get some basic stats including bot access and also be able to sort/filter the logs to find out what happened right before the server crashed.
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what are the values in _ga cookie?

I am using universal analytics. universal analytics creates first party cookie _ga _ga=1.2.286403989.1366364567; 286403989 is clientId 1366364567 is timestamp what is 1 and 2 in _ga cookie?
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Track event in google analytics upon clicking form submit

I need to track an event in google analytics when someone fills out a form and clicks submit. The resulting page that comes up is a standard dashboard-type page, so in order to track the event on that page I'd have to pass in the event in the url…
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Tell bots apart from human visitors for stats?

I am looking to roll my own simple web stats script. The only major obstacle on the road, as far as I can see, is telling human visitors apart from bots. I would like to have a solution for that which I don't need to maintain on a regular basis…
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XGBoost XGBClassifier Defaults in Python

I am attempting to use XGBoosts classifier to classify some binary data. When I do the simplest thing and just use the defaults (as follows) clf = xgb.XGBClassifier() metLearn=CalibratedClassifierCV(clf, method='isotonic', cv=2) metLearn.fit(train,…
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Is there a Google Analytics-like solution to track REST calls to a web service?

Just wondering if there's any out of the box solution for this, I am not too familiar with the analytics api maybe I can write some simple js that updates analytics before going to my service etc. -- otherwise I am going to have to stick to the good…
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Recording user data for heatmap with JavaScript

I was wondering how sites such as crazyegg.com store user click data during a session. Obviously there is some underlying script which is storing each clicks data, but how is that data then populated into a database? It seems to me the simple…
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Google Analytics Event-based Goal Funnels

I have what might be a unique GA requirement. I need to track Goal conversions in a SPA based on certain event criteria. Here's the requirement: User initiates new order User fills out all required fields User either: Saves order for…
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Piwik Filter Graph by Custom Variable

In piwik, is it possible to filter the visitors graph based on a custom variable from the tracker? I want to show an evolution graph of all the visits with a 70 value in the first custom variable slot. I tried this…
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How to use analytics for desktop applications?

Google Analytics is nice, but it is for websites. If I have a console application how can I track its usage worldwide? Can i just download an transparent.gif file from the analytics service provider? What are your thoughts on such analytics?
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Is there a faster alternative to Google Analytics?

I like to keep my websites extremely light and fast, but of course I need some kind of user tracking and analytics. It seems like Google Analytics always takes significant enough processing time that I'd like to replace it with something faster…
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