Ever since my very first attendance, Adobe Summit is my number-one source for inspiration for new things to try out in Adobe Analytics. When the world’s leading practitioners and product experts from Adobe come together to share their knowledge, there is a lot to learn for everyone. This year, Eric Matisoff invited me to share a visualization I created in Analysis Workspace as part of the Analytics Rockstars session. However, the true Rockstar content in that session was the Tips & Tricks shared by Jenn Kunz using Excel with the Flow viz in Workspace. A followup conversation on Measure Slack then unveiled some improvements using Data Warehouse and reminded me of an approach of my own that I want to share today. Some years back I used Adobe Analytics’ Data Feeds with Elasticsearch and Grafana to analyze marketing performance beyond what Adobe Analytics has to offer. While that was a […]
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Even more Query Service tips to level up your Customer Journey Analytics game
It has been more than two weeks since my last post. Where have I been? Easy answer: Fully and blissfully engulfed in the blessing that is Adobe’s Customer Journey Analytics. I’ve imported my Adobe Analytics data, done some custom user stitching, and created some fun things that I didn’t even knew I’ve always wanted from Adobe Analytics. This experience (pun intended) has completely shifted the way I look at my own data. Following up on my last post, I would like to share some new and cool things I discovered using some more Adobe Defined Functions, window functions, and standard SQL. I wont give a long introduction into Query Service again, but feel free to revisit the previous post for some information on how Query Service interacts with Adobe Experience Platform datasets and how to write data back to those. Getting creative with Sessionization Recreating Adobe Analytics sessions in Query […]
My favorite Query Service tricks in Adobe Experience Platform for Customer Journey Analytics
Wow, that’s a long title for a post. As you might have heard, I recently got the chance to dive into Adobe’s Experience Platform since my company got provisioned for Customer Journey Analytics. That means that I now have all my Adobe Analytics data in Platform, ready for Query Service to enrich it. I think I will do another post on how I amp up my Analytics game by using both Query Service and Customer Journey Analytics together. But this post will give some examples on how to use Query Service in general and how it interacts with Experience Platform. It will be a quick tutorial and provide some use cases for the custom Adobe Defined Functions (ADFs). At the end, you might end up with long SQL queries like I do: How Query Service works and interacts with Platform So what actually is Query Service? It provides a SQL […]
Why I still love Props – Confessions of an Analyst
Experts are supposed to know everything about a certain topic. And not only are they suppose to know things, they also are expected to behave in the best way possible. Their past decisions are the benchmark for how to assess future situations and judge what to do. But all experts have their little secrets, where they deviate from the gold standard and do something that is outdated, unpopular, or straight-out embarrassing. This post is about one of the things that I still do today and only talk about seldom because it became unpopular a while ago. So here it is: I still use Props in all my Adobe Analytics implementations. But not only do I use them, I secretly love them! Both Adobe themselves and veterans like Jan “Props must die” Exner advise on not using them any more in the future. So this is my confession to the world […]
Analysis Workspace Hacks – Next and Previous Page Report
Analysis Workspace is the most capable solution for Web Analysts today. It allows us to switch between building a Dashboard or old-school Report or something in the middle on the fly. It has surpassed the old Reports & Analytics Interface in functionality and workflow effectiveness and leaves you longing for it once you start using different solutions. But there is one thing that is not that awesome in Analysis Workspace yet: Pathing. Once you activate Pathing for a custom prop, the old interface gives you Next and Previous Reports for that prop, just like with the Page Dimension: As a result we get a nice table with the Next or Previous Dimension Items for a given Item. Hacking Analysis Workspace’s Flow Visualizations The closest thing to that functionality is the Flow Visualization in Analysis Workspace. It allows us to see a Flow of Users between Dimension Items or even across […]