I know that it is possible to create dashboards using data studio from various data sources. My question is whether is it possible to visualize a real time data graph using data studio, as in case of data coming from IoT devices?
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I am uploading a file from my local machine now. So I think now it's not possible to visualize the changes in the data studio if I change any data within my machine.
What I am asking is however is that, is it possible to visualize any changes occured in a google sheet in data studio in real time. Say that I changed or added some new data rows into my google sheet, is it possible in data studio to see those changes in real time?
Yes, it is possible with implementing custom script for refreshing the reports.
I'm feeding in a sheet that is using data supplied by the Google Sheets Google analytics plug-in, and that is definitely updating in Data Studio as the Google sheets report updates.
Data Studio currently does not support automatic real time updates / streaming data. After you open a dashboard, the only way to re-fetch the data is to use the dashboard's refresh feature.
If you require real time updates in your dashboard, please put in feature requests / vote for them in the issue tracker.
Edit: There is a third party Chrome extension that lets users auto refresh dashboards (does not work with Viewer credentials).
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I am looking to pull site usage data from sharepoint such as daily users, click through rate, which parts of the site they are using the most, which links they are using the most, which documents are being opening the most. Is there a way to do this through excel, any programs, etc. I have been looking at Power BI, Excel, Power Query, etc. I haven't found a way to pull the data from sharepoint analytics itself though.
I am looking to pull data from the sharepoint site and display it as a chart, a Pareto chart for example.
1.The current situation that the site usage analysis page can export:
Site owners can export the 90-days site usage data in an excel file by going to the download button in the upper right corner on site usage page. Report on unique viewers, site visits, popular platforms and site traffic. For popular content on the site (news posts, documents and pages) the report will be for last 7 days.
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2.I've also tried getting data from the web in Excel, but it doesn't work. There is currently only one connector between site usage and PowerBI.
I tracked down a published post in UserVoice: Export to Excel on Site usage. You can vote and comment anytime.
3.You might try using the Office 365 Admin API to use, retrieve and store the data in a database, and then report on it with PowerBI. This requires registering with Azure AD and give it permissions to the API.
Reference: Office 365 Management Activity API reference
Is there a way to pull the data from a report in Google Data Studio through the API? One of my clients wants to generate a report in data studio and then export it to Google Sheets so he can run additional functions. I can't seem to find any documentation that talks about how to do that. Alternatively, is it easier to skip the report, query the data sources directly, and do the uploading that way?
At the moment you can only get the info about reports, but not report data.
The API is available here: https://developers.google.com/datastudio/api/reference
Currently, there is no API to pull data from a Data Studio report.
In Sitecore you basically have three databases. The Core, Master and Web database.
Simply put the Core database holds all Sitecore settings. The Master database is the authoring database. So it contains all versions of any content.
Then in Sitecore you can "publish" the contents and it will publish the latest version of each content to the Web database.
So suppose I have a website with a news page. And a user is able to edit a news item from the web site (so not through the CMS). How would the database then get updated when it's set up like this?
It would probably update the Web database, but then when I go into the CMS I don't see the latest changes, since the CMS reads from the Master database, right?
So does that mean that it should write twice? Once to the Web database and once to the Master database?
Can anyone tell me how this works in Sitecore or the like?
The reason I'd like to know this is becasue I'm thinking of creating a similar database setup. And I'm just not sure how to solve this issue.
When you have items that needs to be updated by the website visitor, you need to use the SitecoreService SOAP webservice or create your own custom webservice that runs on the Master-instance and triggers a publish after updating.
Well, Sitecore has a publishing step. When the user publishes in Sitecore, it updates the Web database at that point. If you want to build a similar system, I would simply store all versions of an item in the Master database and only when the user chooses to publish, copy the latest version to the Web database.
If your site
- generates a lot of comments
- generates the comments continuously
- uses multiple content delivery servers
- requires CMS users to manage them
I would not store the comments as content items.
The reason is HTML cache and publishing behavior.
On high volume site you'd most certainly use html caching to achieve best possible performance. If a publish is required to show comments, you'd need frequent publish actions and thus html caches are cleared often.
You don't wan't that :-)
Modeling after the DMS implementation is the safest (not cheapest and Datatables isn't something I recommend these days), storing stuff in a separate database, possibly using queuing to prevent an overload if things get busy..
I need to make a couple of mobile applications which will all access a shared online resource using e.g. REST API.
What is the cheapest/easiest setup for the server side resource?
The server should store data as either xml/json/sqlite and expose an API to access this data, preferably in a secure manner.
Is Google App Engine appropriate? Any others?
What would be a recommended way to implement?
What I want to do is to have a database online (not important which format - content will not bee too big, ~5000 records with around 5-10 text fields each), have a simple management console for editing this content and then let mobile devices connect in order to check if they have the latest data and update if required.
The data should not be publicly available but key may be hardcoded into device applications.
We want to add tracking statistics to a web application we are building but are pretty unsure of how to go about it. (i.e. clicks, pageviews, unique visits etc)
Does anyone have any articles on the best way to go about incorporating tracking data into an application ? i.e. javascript tracking or IIS etc ?
We want to add tracking in as a ASP.NET MVC module - but we are unsure as to the best way to actually get the data and essentially 'track' this information ?
If anyone could help out - much appreciated.
Edit: just to be clear, we want to do this in-house and present the stats to our users as an additional fee module?
You can turn on the logging for IIS and then use the SQL Server Report Server Pack for IIS. It comes with many canned reports for your sites stats and then you could take it from there with your own custom reports.
You could also just use log parser to get the stats into a SQL Server DB and then you could use SQL from their to analyse and roll your own app.
Either way, you could modularize this and sell it as an add-on to your customer base.
You could use Piwik, you just need PHP version 5.1.3 or greater and MySQL version 4.1 or greater. As they say in their website, "Piwik aims to be an open source alternative to Google Analytics."
They have a demo on the official website so you can see if it's what you're looking for.
Google analytics is a popular service. You just insert a bit of javascript on every page that contains your sites name and Google tracks the data and provides all the report on a handy web based dashboard.
It's not an ASP.net MVC module like what you mentioned, but it will certain track stats for you and will be a lot simpler to set up than trying to code or integrate anything yourselves.
I'd look at analytics to begin with and only branch out to something more complex if it doesn't meet your requirements.
klabranche provided a holistic answer in terms of using logs of web server. I think using web server log is a a great way to analyse data of your web application.
That being said, depend on your web application and the scope of your analytics, just relay on web server log is not a good way to.
As you may know, web log does not record users behaviors like clicking certain tabs which may not trigger a web server request. Obviously your web log has no idea whether users clicked that tab or not, this may hurt your analyse.
Another you need to know is browser cache, this may create another black hole in your data.
RECAP
If you want to do a holistic analytics, you need to use two approaches, one is JavaScrip tag, another one is web log. Since both of them have shortages, combining them together will give you a complete picture.
Hope this helps