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Blazer
- Blazer: Business Intelligence Made Simple
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Is Tableau Dead?
I try to avoid these tools wherever possible, given the choice I'd always go for tools like Blazer.
https://github.com/ankane/blazer
No such luck in my current role, Looker and PowerBI are both in use by different bits of the org and nobody has the ability to delve into the underlying figures.
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Evidence – Business Intelligence as Code
And it's Open Source: https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence
I'd also highly recommend Blazer https://github.com/ankane/blazer if you are into the Ruby on Rails world. It's super solid, and it's been an indispensable tool integrated to all my projects.
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Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics
I use Ahoy too, but I don't have very good visibility into the data. I should spend more time building queries and creating charts. I should probably set up blazer as well: https://github.com/ankane/blazer
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My project: railstart app
blazer
- dashboard framework
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Using Scientist to Refactor Critical Ruby on Rails Code
The Blazer gem provides a nice way to analyze the results easily. It is simple to install and allows SQL queries to run against tables. The query here shows that the candidate implementation is significantly faster than the original.
- Oldie question - latest tools?
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How to let users run scripts on their data?
There is nothing wrong with it. In Ruby on Rails, for example, you can use a gem for such a case https://github.com/ankane/blazer
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Cookie-based tracking is dead
I did server-side tracking test in a rails app, where I implemented a tracking gem called ahoy and blazer for visualization. It is very easy to set up, but a bit hard to use. Blazer can do a very basic visualization of the data if you know your SQL queries.
Ahoy
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Ahoy Captain: a full-featured, mountable analytics dashboard
A full-featured, mountable analytics dashboard for your Rails app, which is a blatant rip-off of heavily inspired by Plausible Analytics, powered by Ahoy. Open source, though lots of changing parts: https://github.com/joshmn/ahoy_captain
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Best rails tools to automatically handle logging of things like all a user's actions, or changes to a record in a module - primarily for audit purposes.
For logging which functions were used you can use ahoy
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How would you build an audit log in Rails for a high-throughput API?
Ahoy may be worth a try https://github.com/ankane/ahoy
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Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics
I've slowly started ripping Google Analytics out of my Rails projects and replacing it with https://github.com/ankane/ahoy.
It's so much better! I can just use SQL to see what's going in and not get overwhelmed with 100's of visualizations and complicated dashboards.
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Cookie-based tracking is dead
I did server-side tracking test in a rails app, where I implemented a tracking gem called ahoy and blazer for visualization. It is very easy to set up, but a bit hard to use. Blazer can do a very basic visualization of the data if you know your SQL queries.
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Rails application boilerplate for fast MVP development
ahoy, ahoy_email and blazer for business intelligence
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Active Analytics Ruby Gem
This gem could be considered as a new alternative to Ahoy https://github.com/ankane/ahoy
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The Ruby Unbundled Series: Track How Customers Use New Features
After starting Rails and logging in, we can use Blazer to see our user metrics. Browse to our mount point, which on my development environment is at http://localhost:3000/blazer. Querying the ahoy_visits table shows us relevant information about the user and their session. We can also save this query as a shortcut to run it again later. After browsing to the page twice, I ran the following query on the events table. It gave the following results. Note that both events come from the same visit, which is equivalent to a session. We have seen how to track events on the server-side. Now let's look at how to accomplish this from the frontend in Javascript. To do this, we need to enable the Ahoy api in the config/initializers/ahoy.rb file, as shown below. Note that Ahoy also supports geocoding so that you can see where your users are located. We will not explore that feature in this article, but it is a nice capability from a metrics perspective.
- Simple and Free Web Analytics
What are some alternatives?
Impressionist - Rails Plugin that tracks impressions and page views
Rails DB - Rails Database Viewer and SQL Query Runner
PgHero - A performance dashboard for Postgres
Legato - Google Analytics Reporting API Client for Ruby
Redis Dashboard - Sinatra app to monitor Redis servers.
active_analytics - First-party, privacy-focused traffic analytics for Ruby on Rails applications.
Staccato - Ruby library to perform server-side tracking into the official Google Analytics Measurement Protocol
SchemaPlus - SchemaPlus provides a collection of enhancements and extensions to ActiveRecord
SecondBase - Seamless second database integration for Rails.
Upsert - Upsert on MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite3. Transparently creates functions (UDF) for MySQL and PostgreSQL; on SQLite3, uses INSERT OR IGNORE.
Gabba - Simple way to send server-side notifications to Google Analytics
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