Ask HN:Books/sites on analytics

6 points by speric 15y ago ↗ HN

I am interested in rolling my own (small) analytics product for the users of my application. I'd like users to see some basic data about who hits their profile pages, where they're coming from, etc. Are there any books or other literature that can give me a place to start, help me think about what kind of data would be useful, how to build a data model, etc.? Thanks.

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mattgratt 15y ago ↗

Avinash Kaushik's stuff is great - http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/

And his books are also excellent - he's written "web analytics 2.0" and "web analytics - an hour a day"

revorad 15y ago ↗

This has some good links - http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-blogs-about-data

krsgoss 15y ago ↗

MixPanel also offers a platform capability that lets you offer analytics to end users of your application. I haven't used it personally, and am not affiliated with them but here's the link:

http://mixpanel.com/platform/

Might be a quick way to offer something and see how it sticks with your audience.