INFO 103 – Project description
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INFO 103 – Project description
Group member names:
Group member IDs: bz337, oo68
Instructions: Groups may have a maximum of
four
and a minimum of
two
people. Turn in one
document for your whole group.
1.
(5 pts)
Your project should fit into one of three categories. Please select one, below.
a.
Data product or project development.
Study the development of an
existing or hypothetical data product or project, focusing on value and
marketability.
b.
Data collection and curation.
Study an existing or hypothetical data source,
focusing on its challenges in curation, storage, and collection.
c.
Data technology and processing.
Study an existing or hypothetical
processing methodology or big data technology, focusing on problems and
applications.
2.
(15 pts) Who’s on this project’s team?
This team consists of two members: Jojo Oshinowo- Mustapaha and Bryce Zenon. The
skills and knowledge needed to efficiently carry out this project would mostly be
research based skills and general knowledge from this course, Introduction to Data
Science. We both have research skills in which we would both use to gather
information on the topic we are working on. There would also be knowledge applied
from what we have both learnt in this course, for example, the pre-processing methods
and API.
Bryce has worked on Google Analytics previously so he has some knowledge and
experience with this topic. This is very beneficial as he would be able to apply his
previous knowledge and skills to the project. I have some experience when it comes to
gaining insights on customer trends through and how these could be visualized through
Google analytics, as I have worked with a marketing and promotion team before.
The following roles were chosen that are apart of the data science world and are
required for Google Analytics to function properly:
Database Administrator
Necessary for data modeling and design, understanding databases that hold user
information. In this case, this would also be identifying and understanding the database
that holds the user's /website visitors information which is the page tags that have the
Javascript inserted in them.
Programmer
This person is literally required to program the software that will handle the data.
Data Scientist
This person is necessary to determine how to handle the data via predictive modeling,
machine learning (machine learning is one of the new features added to Google
Analytics: Google Analytic 4) , etc.
3.
(25 pts) Identify your specific topic of study, and provide a summary, below.
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by google that tracks and reports
website traffic. It became part of the Google Marketing Platform in 2015 and is available
for free to anyone with a Google account. Google analytics helps track website
performance and gather visitor insights. This helps businesses identify the sources of
user traffic, user trends and engagement, and to overall see the success of their
marketing strategies. Google analytics acquires its data from website visitors by using
page tags which function as a web bug or a web beacon. They do this by inserting a
JavaScript page tag into the code of each page. JavaScript is known as one of the core
technology programming languages of the World Wide Web. The tag therefore runs in
the web browser of the website visitors, collecting data and sending it to one of
Google’s data collection servers. This allows Google Analytics to create personalizable
reports in order to visualize and keep track of data. This data could be the number of
users, average session duration, page views and more.
Because Google Analytics relies on cookies, their system cannot collect data from
visitors who disable them. Google Analytics includes features that enable data
collection, data analysis, data monitoring, data visualization, data reporting and data
integration with other applications. Features include: Data filtering (manipulation and
funnel analysis), Data visualization and monitoring tool (including dashboards,
scoreboards and motion charts that display changes in data over time), Data collection
application program interfaces (APIs), predictive analytics, email-based sharing, and
Integration with other products like Google Ads, Google Data Studio, Salesforce
Marketing Cloud, Google AdSense, Google Optimize 360, Google Search Ads 360, and
Google Ad Manager. Google Analytics also allows its users to track up to 200 different
metrics to measure website performance. This includes bounce rate, page views pers
session, users, and more. Google Analytics consists of both metrics and dimensions
which are critical for proper interpretation of reports, this would all be further discussed
in the presentation. The type of data provided by Google can be categorized as user
acquisition data or user behavior data.
Google Analytics 4 is the most recent interiation of the service that was released in
October 2020. It includes new features such as machine learning and artificial
intelligence (AI) tools, deeper integrations with Google Ads, customer-centric reporting
designed around lifecycle data, additional codeless tracking features that provide data
with less latency, and enhanced data control features.
4.
(25 pts) Support your topic with reference materials and briefly summarize what each
piece of reference material tells you about your topic.
What is Google Analytics and how does it work?
https://www.techtarget.com/searchbusinessanalytics/definition/Google-Analytics
This website provides a broad overview of what Google Analytics is and how it works. It
goes into details of how it uses JavaScript to track user data via cookies as well as
provides an informative video that visually and audibly gives information on the product.
It then goes into detail about more features such as their metrics and the usability of its
features. This source focuses on the database and programming languages used in
processing data.
Introducing Google Analytics 4 (GA4)
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/10089681
This is a wiki style post explaining the new Google Analytics 4 and how to prepare your
website to switch to it. It also details new features that separates Analytics 4 from the
Universal Analytics model that has been used up to this point. There are several links to
jumping between information for the legacy and new models as well as support
questions for both models.
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