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Would be an interesting third party tool. Does anyone do this already? Something as simple as receiving a list of usernames over time.
by nanch 14y ago
Would be an interesting third party tool. Does anyone do this already? Something as simple as receiving a list of usernames over time.
- lubos 14y agoMixPanel can do this and they have a free plan. I custom-built my own cohort reports but as number of users grow in my own app, I'm planning to replace it with MixPanel. You don't really want to put stress on your own database servers which are meant for production, not for analysis.
- aaronblohowiak 14y agoYou should not be doing analysis (OLAP) on your main transactional database (OLTP). Moving from transaction-processing system (TPS) to analysis is done through a process call ETL (Extract, Transform, Load.) You will want to transform your data into facts and dimensions -- this is going from a relational model to a multidemensional model (using a star schema.)
- lubos 14y agobut that would be another system to maintain. I'm happy to outsource this to MixPanel or some other company. My needs are pretty generic. I appreciate your response though.
- aaronblohowiak 14y agoYes, I 100% believe in focusing on your core competencies. If the OLAP is self-hosted or external, the key takeaway is to not do analysis against production (once your data set is larger than RAM ;) before that, who cares?)
- ryanjm33 14y agoCohort.ly does a great job. They are in private beta so you can request access. It has been really beneficial to us. http://cohort.ly/ http://cohort.ly/
- mh- 14y agoI really dislike this trend of only having videos to share info about a product or service. Not even a blurb on there.
- mh- 14y agohave a look at https://github.com/Doist/bitmapist https://github.com/Doist/bitmapist - some more info here http://amix.dk/blog/post/19718 http://amix.dk/blog/post/19718