Mixpanel gives more useful information than Page view

If you want to measure user engagement Page views is standard metric. However, you would like to know more than Page View and you want to know what people are doing with your content. This is where Mixpanel excels (https://mixpanel.com/engagement/).

Review this image in zoom to get the basic idea:

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This is how it works:



Look at all options for Analytics and Marketing here:

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If you are a developer go directly here:
https://mixpanel.com/help/reference

Lots of Integration options:

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What is more, Power BI can now connect to Mixpanel in the October update.
 

More features enhance Power BI in October update

The October Power BI was out on October 31, 2016. Some often requested features like date slicing and snapping to grid were added. Also added are the grouping; top N filtering; new data connectors and custom R-visuals.

The complete list of October updates are:
Report View
Date slicer
Report gridlines and snap to grid (Preview)
Data label improvements
Map formatting options
Improved date axis range formatting

Analytics
Grouping
Binning
Top N filter
Include/Exclude data points
R-powered custom visuals

Data Connectors
Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Financials
OLEDB
Mixpanel

Query Editing Improvements
Support for table parameters in “Invoke Function” dialog

Other Improvements
Diagnostic information in the “About” dialog
Read full story here:
https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/

Review details of OLE DB Connectivity here:
http://hodentekmsss.blogspot.com/2016/11/power-bi-connecting-to-sql-server-2016.html

Over a dozen recent articles on Power BI go here:
http://hodentekmsss.blogspot.com/search?q=powerBI

TypeScript 2.1 ready to go!

Microsoft's TypeScript (also regarded as industrial strength JavaScript)  is getting upgraded with new features:

Improved Inference
Async Functions

TypeScript 2.0 was released as recent as September 2016. TypeScript 2.1 is in RC (release candidate)

The upgrade makes modelling easier and migrating JavaScript to TypeScript easier. Aysnc/await () introduced in ECMAScript 2016  is featured in the new release and makes asynchronous programming easier. It shares same keywords in C#, Dart and Python.

Here is sample code from the msdn blog links above:
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async function main() {
 await ping();
}
async function ping() {
 for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
  await delay(300);
  console.log(“ping”);
 }
}
function delay(ms: number) {
 return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
}
main();
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Read the rest of the story here if you are into programming with JavaScript.

Vini, Vici, Vidi - Trump vanquishes Hillary to win the election

The victory was decisive. Trump won the Presidency with a huge margin. He won fair and square.

This result is all the more significant as he fought against the entrenched forces; massive advertisement spending from the other side; a ganged-up media; spending a percentage of what the other side spent; against a massive support by the sitting President and the First Lady; and a list too long to dwell upon not to speak of party insiders who wanted him to lose, lose badly.

Now with a clear mandate, he should have an open road towards fulfilling election promises so that those who were hurting for a longtime get some relief. Jobs, jobs and more jobs.

Long live democracy and hope we will have a multi-party government in the future years where there will be possibility of more checks. 

Tour of Munich, Budapest, Vienna, Prague and Salzburg - 3

June 20, 2016

Today we are on the move to Vienna from Budapest and we will visit a place called Szentendre which not really on our route to Vienna. However it not too far from Budapest either.

Szentendre has become a popular tourist spot because of its historical significance with  so many nationalities having lived there in the past and the tourist shops, museums and the church.