I have been playing around with GWT and GWT Visualization Wrapper API. One thing I learned recently is that GWT Visualization API does not work without an internet connection (I was working offline the other day and it took me a good half hour to figure out why my charts were not loading)
After doing a lot of reading online about privacy, data, and GWT, it seems that many people, including me, have a concern about sending data to Google when trying to display graphs. I already searched through many sources, including stackoverflow, and I would like to 100% confirm that my assumptions are correct.
The reason for people's concern about sending data to Google was when you tried to get an image of the said chart. This required data to be sent to Google, they processed it, and then they returned an image to be embedded in your website. According to my studies, that feature has been deprecated from Google charts (and for good reason). The way it works now, to my understanding, is that every time you want to display a chart, you download the most up-to-date library on the client side and perform all the calculations on the client. This makes it so that Google doesn’t actually get any information you will display on the charts.
Thus, I can continue using the visualization API as long as I keep using interactive charts and keep checking on the Google charts documentation page that it says that for this particular chart i.e Line Chart:
https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/linechart
(SEE BOTTOM OF PAGE) “All code and data are processed and rendered in the browser. No data is sent to any server” I do not have to worry about anyone getting my data because all information is processed client side.
Please correct any incorrect assumptions that I may have. Thank you.
The charts on this page, https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery, all include a "Data Policy" section which details whether the chart is rendered on the client and what data will leave the client. Currently, only GeoChart communicates with Google (in order to do the Geocoding); obviously, this could change in the future.
The charts on this other page, https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/more_charts, include some that were written by Google, and some that were written by third parties. These also include a Data Policy section. For those written by Google, you can rely on this policy. For those written by third parties, Google has not validated the claims and cannot guarantee them.
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Looking for feedback from anyone that has implemented server-side FB pixel on SFCC since iOS 14.6
this is a big lengthy so I do apologize, but I haven't seen this issue referenced on Stack and I'm imagining the use-case is growing as companies keep migrating to SFCC.
I currently have server-side enabled out-of-the-box on SFCC for the Facebook Pixel. While it fires appropriately, I'm still seeing a handful of errors as noted below. This was a necessary step after 14.6 decimated our existing FB pixel and it has worked, for the most part, but I can't help but feel as though there's something is fundamentally broken about it.
Errors keeping me up at night:
Am I correct in ONLY using the server-side FB pixel and having the third party tracking pixel turned off?
Should I even be using the SFCC out-of-the-box server-side set-up?? Am I better off building the connector out myself via GA4?
"Server External ID Not Matching to Pixel External ID for Purchase Event"
^ this makes sense as I ONLY have the server-side running and no web pixel, but unsure why the issue is still presenting itself on the diagnostics tab.
"Server Sending Invalid Match Key Parameters for AddToCart Event"
^ FB support mentioned that this is because a parameter is missing from AddToCart, which i'm guessing is the $ total, which SFCC isn't sending OOTB.
I'm getting a bunch of external URLs in the "Recent Activities" section for the "Purchase" event, but not on the pageview or any other events. unsure what the impact is here.
The "Aggregated Event Measurement" tool shows "No Recent Activity", and FB support was not very clear on why or how this happens.
The time taken to load the charts(visualization) using tableau in my mobile app is close to 10 or 15 secs. So i am looking for alternative methods like creating my own chart but only to use the intelligence tableau provides on creating the visualizations.
In short, i want to know whether there is some support or API available from tableau using which i can draw the visualizations by myself in my mobile app without losing any chart data or functionality like digging deeper in charts.
For example, an API from tableau using which i can create the chart in my mobile app. After creating it, if user touches any data that should be sent again to tableau to get further event action like showing filters/tables etc.
Is this even possible? I did lot of research in tableau and got to know about tableau SDK, tableau API's, tableau extensions etc. but unable to find what i am looking for.
Tableau provides a thorough white paper Designing Efficient Workbooks. I would start by reading that and trying some of the recommendations.
If you are looking for an API driven visualization system, you can check out MuzeJS.
You load your data in an in-browser DataModel, run relational algebra enabled data operators to get the right subset of data, and then just pass to Muze engine, which automatically renders the best visualization for it.
It is similar to the kind of intelligence Tableau provides but since it is a developer first API, you can customize as you want, whether it be for the mobile or the desktop. In fact, most of the charts will be available for both seamlessly.
Any changes to data (including application of data operations) automatically updates the visualization, without you having to do anything else.
Add to that, if you’ve to connect multiple charts (for cross-interactivity, drill-down etc.), you’ve to manually write the ‘glue’ code. With Muze, all charts rendered from the same DataModel are automatically connected (enabling cross-filtering). It also provides composability and the ability to facet your visualization, providing a multi-grid layout.
You can go through some of the examples and the documentation to see if it suits your needs
I'm trying to export data from Presence Insights on Bluemix, I followed the following documentation:
https://presenceinsights.ng.bluemix.net/pidocs/analytics/export/
however I can't seem to find export button mentioned inside the document.
Data can be exported from the IBM Presence Insights Dashboard if you have data available. There are also REST APIs for exporting data. They are documented in the Floors, Sites, and Zones sections of the API Reference.
There were REST APIs in the product some time ago, but they were found to have limitations that made them less useful in production. In particular, the amount of data that builds up forces the response time on the API to grow beyond what the Bluemix infrastructure allowed. The API requests would timeout. To that end, the APIs were backed out, but it appears the documentation was left. That will be removed shortly.
Presence Insights still understands the value of exporting the data, so a new scheme is under investigation. For example, it would be ideal if the data could be exported under the covers to a production data storage facility, on a regular time frame.
In the interim, an alternative solution would be to use a Subscription to gather the backend enter/exit/dwell/timeout events directly and roll your own solution to store only what you need in whatever facility works for your application.
I've searched for a few days for examples of now to use high maps with sharepoint data. We purchased high maps because we are confident there is a way to make the maps from sharepoint data.
The goal would be either to make a map from address or lat long data OR map just on the country of the item. We are at the phase where we are about to collect data and it's not clear how the data needs to be formatted. I believe we would either pull the data from the sharepoint list via rest and JSON is SPServices and CAML query, I've created datatables and a highcgart pie wth test data in the site.
I'm not finding any good samples out there and hoping some experts will weigh in with advice or a code snippet.
General rule is that Highcharts runs in any web browser, including web controls or browser widgets in other platforms. If SharePoint has a mechanism of including a web page in some kind of frame, then it should work.
I advice to familiar with the article about preprocessing, http://www.highcharts.com/docs/working-with-data/preprocessing and getJSON() functon in jquery.
In the highmaps you can use data points defined as lat/lng.
Further information information about that:
- http://www.highcharts.com/docs/maps/latlon
I have an internal tool written in java. It would be useful to get a little
feedback on how much it is used by colleagues.
A simple solution would be to have the application display an image which it fetches from
a web hit counter like application and just look at how often the image is accessed.
So what I am looking for: a stand-alone application (i.e. no Apache modules, cgi scripts, etc),
which serves one or a couple of static images and and can log accesses, preferably with as
little as possible of support of everything else.
Searching for "hit counter" gave little relevant, "lightweight http server" was more relevant, although mostly overkill still. Any suggestions?
You could try using Google Analytics. Most of the time, people using Google Analytics are tracking pageviews on a web page, and Google Provides some javascript that you can place on your page and it will track the visits to that page as well as browser capabilities/etc. Behind the scenes, that javascript is placing an image tag on the page in the manner you describe.
However, since your application is java and not a web app (I assume it's a standalone and not an applet), you won't be able to include Google's javascript (unless you embed a javascript interpreter...yick). Fortunately, it is possible to use Google's analytics without javascript.
The trick is that Google's scripts use the image http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif and pass parameters via the query string. You can find a list of the parameters you can pass to the query string here. So all you'd have to do is figure out what the query string should be and have your client make the request to google's image (after setting up your google analytics account, of course).
Just use Google Analytics, it's really easy and requires a short script on your pages.
Michal Kebrt's simple UNIX HTTP server does exactly what I was looking for.