Exploring web traffic data with Google Analytics and R

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Niche bloggers up to multinational corporations, they are all interested in monitoring their web traffic and its patterns across time.

Google Analytics is the most widely used solution to keep track of this type of data. It provides a UI for a wide range of reports and possibilities for various types of visualizations.

Moreover, the availability of the Analytics API coupled with the corresponding R packages can now give more options for custom web analyses.

This talk covers the following :

• What is web analytics ? How it works ?

• Interfacing with the Analytics Reporting API via an R package (RGA)

• Practical analytics applications with R