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Getting Started with Apache Superset, an Enterprise-Ready Business Intelligence Platform

Apache Superset is a modern, enterprise-ready business intelligence web application that makes it easy to visualise large datasets and build complex dashboards. At Reflective Data, we are using Apache Superset to monitor all data going through our platform with minimum latency. This allows us to easily combine data from different databases and every analyst can […]

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Ultimate Guide to Setting up Enhanced Ecommerce Tracking

The Enhanced Ecommerce tracking is my favorite feature of Google Analytics, yet so many companies are not using most of its features. It’s time to turn this into your competitive advantage.

While there are other creative use cases, in this article I’m focusing on tracking the websites actually selling goods or services online.

The goal of this article is to provide an up-to-date information and guidelines for implementing Google Analytics Enhanced Ecommerce tracking on an e-commerce site using Google Tag Manager.

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Using Google Analytics 360 and BigQuery to Grow Your Business

Google Analytics is a very powerful free tool used by millions across the world, Google Analytics 360 (formerly Google Analytics Premium) is it’s paid and even more powerful bigger brother. BigQuery, on the other hand, is a fast, scalable and reasonably priced enterprise-level data warehouse for analytics at any scale.

In this article, I am giving you a few reasons why you should consider upgrading to Google Analytics 360 and an option to seamlessly integrate with BigQuery is a pretty good starting point.

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Google Analytics Audiences, Acquisition and Behavior Reports Visualized in Data Studio

You’ve probably heard of Google Data Studio, a powerful and flexible tool that lets you visualize data from various sources. One of the most popular use cases, in my opinion, has been visualizing data from Google Analytics.

Recently, Google made it even easier to get started with connecting the two, Google Analytics and Data Studio, by giving us three nice-looking yet insightful reports. Even better, you can customize the reports in any way you wish.

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What Is FOOC and How to Get Rid of It?

FOOC or Flash of Original Content is a situation in Javascript based A/B testing where the experiment is causing an element on the page to flicker when changing from original to the variation.

It has been a known problem for as long as front-end A/B testing solutions have been around. In this article, we take a look at why you should care and if it’s somehow possible to solve it.

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All You Need to Know About Google Analytics Filters

In Google Analytics, you can use custom filters mainly for achieving three goals: excluding unwanted traffic, creating custom views, and manipulating data. Each of these can be extremely useful and we are going to take a closer look at all of them.

This article is a part of our very popular series called “Most common Google Analytics issues (in-depth overview)” where we go into great detail of every aspect of Google Analytics. This time, we are going to cover everything you need to know about Google Analytics Filters.

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