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Ask HN: How to visualize e-commerce data

2 points by martin_a 5y ago

Hey! I'm looking for ideas/tools to visualize various e-commerce data points I'm gathering. Stuff to monitor and present nicely would be sales figures, signups, visitors, time between order creation and sending out the products and some more. I'm willing to create connections between the various systems (non-standard mostly), so I'm kind of looking for a unified data storage with visualization options. Something like Excel but nicer. ;-) Thanks!

andersource 5y ago
> I'm kind of looking for a unified data storage with visualization options. That phrase reminded me of elasticsearch & kibana[0], though that may be an overkill (the elastic stack is a lot of work). Also seems like datadog has a solution in the space[1], haven't used it though. [0] https://www.elastic.co/kibana/ https://www.elastic.co/kibana/ [1] https://www.datadoghq.com/solutions/retail-ecommerce/ https://www.datadoghq.com/solutions/retail-ecommerce/
- martin_a 5y ago
  Thanks for the links! Kibana looks interesting but also like a lot of overhead to learn and handle. datadog also is interesting, although it looks like it's more tailored to watch the operation side of things, like infrastructure. I've looked around and probably MongoDB Atlas Charts might be something. Not totally sure, but I'll give it a try with some sample data.