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4 Ways to Harness the Power of Real-Time Analytics. What’s happening to your business, product, or game right now? As the web gets faster, we want analytics and data just as fast. Facebook and Twitter have already built their own systems to measure their petabytes of real-time data. But there’s nothing stopping the rest of us from using real-time analytics, too. So how do you actually use real-time data? Let’s keep in mind that actionable metrics help us make better business decisions. We should take the same approach to real-time metrics: actionable > vanity. While there are few use-cases where you can take action on real-time data immediately, there are benefits to having access to data within minutes of an event happening. 1.

First things first. It’d be a shame to spend time configuring events, segments, and metrics only to find out later that nothing triggered correctly. The KISSmetrics Live feature shows me real-time data so that I can see events triggering correctly as I move through the site. 2. 3. What about e-commerce sites?

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I set about configuring a most recent servers drop down in the application and wanted to model it off SQL Server Management Studio when I noticed that there is no way to clear the list from SQL Server Management Studio, which was something I wanted to incorporate in my own development. It turns out that you actually can clear the list, but it requires that you remove the SqlStudio.bin file from the users application data path which generally is like the following for SQL Server 2008: The Work of Edward Tufte and Graphics Press. Graphics Press LLC P.O. Box 430 Cheshire, CT 06410 800 822-2454 Edward Tufte is a statistician and artist, and Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Statistics, and Computer Science at Yale University.

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