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[{"user_id": 25736, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1308119954.3000679, "message": "How do you usually do your analytics in Django? Things that don't go into google analytics, like total users vs. total active users vs. registered vs. registered through facebook, and so on?", "group_id": 81, "id": 1398367}, {"user_id": 34431, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1308136168.7561271, "message": "From what I've heard, a good way to handle this is through a NoSql document store. You can easily create key/value pairs for any statistic you want and retrieve them quickly. No reason you could not do this with SQL. Just have a table for analytics with each row representing a key/value pair, with the key as the primary key (not sure how good an idea this is), and write some model logic to write/retrieve/update various statistics.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1399669}, {"user_id": 12817, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1308140880.0277979, "message": "Surely these figures could be just as easily generated on the fly?", "group_id": 81, "id": 1399941}, {"user_id": 1147, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1308147966.7164271, "message": "That said.. it has its limits. We've used http://www.kissmetrics.com/ before. And also a custom UserEvent model which lives in a separate DB.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1400913}, {"user_id": 1147, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1308147867.1648901, "message": "You might want to look into user segmentation in GA. http://analytics.blogspot.com/2009/07/segment-your-traffic-with-user-defined.html", "group_id": 81, "id": 1400887}, {"user_id": 33699, "stars": [{"date_created": 1308454340.2474821, "user_id": 1081}, {"date_created": 1308466288.158602, "user_id": 1772}, {"date_created": 1308516587.8247299, "user_id": 33300}, {"date_created": 1308723204.1777389, "user_id": 6807}, {"date_created": 1309270641.4791501, "user_id": 35545}], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1308215949.5186369, "message": "I've developed an app called StockAndFlow which handles analytics/business intelligence questions like @liorsion's. In short it represents these questions as stocks (things that accumulate) or flows (things that happen). It then provides generic tracking and reporting for these representations. We are thinking about open sourcing it. If you are interested I can  try to accelerate the process.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1408719}, {"user_id": 13339, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1308452253.7518201, "message": "@jesseh i am interested", "group_id": 81, "id": 1429842}, {"user_id": 1081, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1308454357.1431119, "message": "@jesseh Interested also, am about to write something similar but would love to take a look at what you've got", "group_id": 81, "id": 1429993}, {"user_id": 25736, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1308466727.9418409, "message": "+1 interested", "group_id": 81, "id": 1430573}, {"user_id": 13300, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1308483617.375293, "message": "Hey @jesseh, be good to see it.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1431072}, {"user_id": 1081, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1308503087.9509261, "message": "@jesseh Show us the Code!!", "group_id": 81, "id": 1432394}, {"user_id": 33699, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1308562956.8012371, "message": "Great. Glad to hear that there is interest. I need to check with my team and will let you know hos soon I get open source it.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1437257}, {"user_id": 33699, "stars": [{"date_created": 1308685346.8402481, "user_id": 1081}, {"date_created": 1308723368.526521, "user_id": 1772}, {"date_created": 1309273604.038769, "user_id": 35545}], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1308651355.169102, "message": "Ok - I got permission from my team. I'll get the source code up shortly.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1447007}, {"user_id": 1081, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1308685454.408628, "message": "@jesseh please tell me you're using redis as the data store??", "group_id": 81, "id": 1451391}, {"user_id": 33699, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1308745739.2129259, "message": "@rasiel stockandflow does not currently use redis but that's on the roadmap. It shouldn't be a difficult change, I just wanted to avoid the overhead of another technology during early development.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1456552}, {"user_id": 1126, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1308852922.5384531, "message": "I'm pretty sure Disqus uses Graphite for all their back-end analytics needs (http://graphite.wikidot.com/)", "group_id": 81, "id": 1468950}, {"user_id": 1126, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1308852930.4490809, "message": "besides Sentry for exceptions, obviously", "group_id": 81, "id": 1468952}, {"user_id": 31790, "stars": [{"date_created": 1309141976.1877601, "user_id": 1081}], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1309029055.5854471, "message": "@jesseh I am looking forward to the release of stockandflow. Very interested in trying it.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1485278}, {"user_id": 33699, "stars": [{"date_created": 1310054736.4939599, "user_id": 27890}, {"date_created": 1312257295.92172, "user_id": 11352}], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1309466803.287559, "message": "Hi. I've open sourced django-stockandflow at https://github.com/jesseh/django-stockandflow", "group_id": 81, "id": 1532800}, {"user_id": 33699, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1309466869.7485671, "message": "Implementing a stock and flow is a bit involved and the documentation is thin, so if you have any questions feel free to contact me here or at jesseh@i-iterate.com", "group_id": 81, "id": 1532828}, {"user_id": 3409, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1309507634.6818261, "message": "We use Mixpanel. Awesome service which allows you to really simply track any event you want (you just call mix_panel.track(\"event name\")).\nWorks really great.\nIf you add the Mixpanel logo to your website, you can track 150,000 events for free.\nHighly recommended, beats rolling your own thing, at least at the early stages.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1538313}, {"user_id": 33699, "stars": [{"date_created": 1309969777.5783989, "user_id": 1081}], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1309930772.7244141, "message": "@raisel - does stockandflow get close to what you are seeking?", "group_id": 81, "id": 1573418}, {"user_id": 1081, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1309969827.827059, "message": "I'd compare it to what the peeps at mixpanel are doing", "group_id": 81, "id": 1576772}, {"user_id": 1081, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1309969806.050442, "message": "@jesseh I've looked at it and conceptually its what i need to do, though at first glance it seemed complex to understand", "group_id": 81, "id": 1576769}, {"user_id": 32942, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1310047938.437664, "message": "This is still in beta but http://chart.io/ may be a good fit. The intro video is hard to grok though (the music is louder than the voice-over and the charts are hard to see)", "group_id": 81, "id": 1584441}, {"user_id": 33699, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1310052642.2485869, "message": "@raisel - we use mixpanel too, although I've struggled to get the reports right. Mixpanel is all about events. Events are important and they are only reveal half the picture. Events show what's happened, but not what is the current state. Nor, more importantly, how has the current state evolved.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1585043}, {"user_id": 33699, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1310052748.6318879, "message": "Stocks and flows also leverages django's admin mechanism to makes metrics reports actionable. For example - we track help requests, and we use the same mechanism as the start point for answering those help requests.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1585053}, {"user_id": 33699, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1310052796.1624889, "message": "I'm working on an intro to django stock and flow to break it down into its simple components. I'll post here when it's out.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1585068}, {"user_id": 13814, "stars": [], "topic_id": 39423, "date_created": 1311189383.083899, "message": "I added basic analytics for a mobile app backend with celery/rabbit. It worked well.", "group_id": 81, "id": 1683975}]