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Web Analytics with Hands-on Projects in R [Video]

By : William Shin
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Web Analytics with Hands-on Projects in R [Video]

By: William Shin

Overview of this book

<p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">R is a popular choice of tool for analysts, offering a large variety of libraries pertaining to each and every task in data analysis. With practical projects based on various real-world domains and use-cases where web analytics can be used, this video will be your companion for implementing the various web analytics techniques using the free, open source libraries provided by R.</span></p> <p><span id="description" class="sugar_field">This video will start by understanding the basics of web analytics, and why it is used in businesses worldwide. This will be followed by an introduction to R and its libraries, and understanding why R is a great choice for performing real-time analysis of your data. Analyse your website’s traffic and understand customers’ behaviour in real time, and use this information to optimize the performance of your website. You will also learn how to use the analytical capabilities of R to fully explore your Google Analytics Data and generate meaningful visualizations of your data using libraries like ggplot2 and generate reports based on various metrics and combinations. By the end of this tutorial, you will have a solid understanding of implementing the various web analytics techniques in R, and maximize your website’s performance.</span></p> <h2><span class="sugar_field">Style and Approach</span></h2> <p><span class="sugar_field"><span id="trade_selling_points_c" class="sugar_field">This is a Practical course packed with step by step instructions. It shows how to retrieve your data into R. This course is divided into clear chunks so you can learn at your own pace.</span></span></p>
Table of Contents (6 chapters)
Chapter 3
Understanding Visitors
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Section 2
Who Is Coming Back to Our Site?
How does Google track new and returning visitors to our site, and what are some caveats to understanding the metric? - Google assigns a unique number to a visitor, which is then used to identify returning visitors - Returning Visitors who have deleted cookies, or using multiple devices may be counted as New Visitors - Demonstration plotting New versus Returning Visitors