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jj41Novice
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Can we backfill funnels in Amplitude?

Suppose I want to analyze the funnel between Event A → Event B → Event CSometimes, because of eventing issues or missing eventing, some users are able to get to Event C without doing Event B. In those cases, would it be possible to backfill on Event B, where we say “If a user has done Event A and Event C, assume they have also done Event B even if it is not present). In many cases, users are allowed to skip steps in the funnel, so I wanted to check if Amplitude has a way of incorporating that.

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tracy.guo
Team Member
3 years ago
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jj41Novice
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How to control for an event property in a funnel chart?

I wanted to look at the conversion between two events, say “Viewed Song” and “Played Song” (What % of users who view a particular song play it). The song_id is one of the event properties for both events, and I want to hold that constant over both events, so I’m answering “Of all the users who view a particular song, how many play that song” instead of “Of all the users who view a song, how many play any song”. Is there a way to do that in Amplitude?

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Saish Redkar
Expert
3 years ago
Saish Redkar
Expert
Saish RedkarExpert
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Removing users from a Team Space

Hello!As an admin, can I remove users from a Team Space? I accidentally added a user to an irrelevant Team Space and want to remove them from it. I couldn’t find anything in the UI to make this happen. Thanks!

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Saish Redkar
Expert
3 years ago
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basilerohartNew Member
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First session analysis for a specific screen during onboarding

Hi, I’d like to do the following analysis for all users who sign up to my app, so only their first session. I already did a funnel analysis until they reach the home of the app. This analysis is focused on this specific screen (home) : average lenght of time on this screen.  most common actions on this screen which lead to subscribe. most common actions on this screen which lead to drop-off. user path (but only for first session).Thanks in advance !  

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3 years ago
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rayqNew Member
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Surfacing analytics to my end users (white-labeled embedded analytics)?

Hello, I have an engineering team that built an app that allows users to create profiles. I want to show my users analytics, i.e., how many visitors came to their profiles. What’s the best way of doing this using amplitude? Thanks!

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Nadia
Team Member
3 years ago
Nicol Hawkins
Team Member
Nicol HawkinsAmplitude Support
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Get creative with custom bracket retention!

First, a little background. If you didn’t know, Bracket Retention offers more flexibility and freedom than N-Day retention; it allows you to define your retention period. Essentially, this powerful tool can be used to analyze retention based on your product’s specific usage interval.  Bracket retention allows you to define any bracket of time you want, from a single day/week/month to multiple days/weeks/ months. On the x-axis, N-day retention maximums are 30-day, 24-week, and 12-month retention respectively. But what if you’re hoping to see beyond the default scope? Custom brackets make this possible! Say you’re looking to see weekly retention for the entire year. Using weekly granularity, you can create custom brackets for all 52 weeks of the year:  Amplitude will conveniently save your custom brackets to the metrics module. That way you can easily reference the same 52-week bracket again for future retention charts. How have you tried using custom brackets in your analysis?

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Nicol Hawkins
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3 years ago
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ashwin.araokarNew Member
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How to track total time spent by user on a particular page?

Hi All, Needed to track total time spent by a user on a particular page on my web app. Is it possible to track page views and within page views is it specifying the time spent by a user on a page. Is there any option to start and stop tracking pageview on a particular page?Urgent help needed.Regards,Ashwin

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Saish Redkar
Expert
3 years ago
Saish Redkar
Expert
Saish RedkarExpert
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Creating a behavioral cohort via API

Hi everyone,Is there way to programmatically create a behavioral cohort via some API endpoint?I have used the Dashboard REST API to build some custom event charts for some of my use cases, but was curious to know if we can input some basic parameters and clauses in a similar way to create cohorts as well.Thanks! 

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eddie.gaona
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3 years ago
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CoreyNew Member
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Total events and unique users changes when group by is used

Hi all, Why did the total number of events reduce when I include a user property into group by?Has this got to do with the pruning that is being applied?https://help.amplitude.com/hc/en-us/articles/360031259831 The user property is the company ID a user is tied to.Below is before group by with a user property for a particular event, performed by any users.For eg. there are 421 events in Feb 21  Below is after I add the company ID into the group by, for the same event, performed by any users.Feb 21 now has 130 events.It is possible that a user from a company ID, performs multiple events in the same month, but we are counting events here, so that should not be the reason, why it gets reduced.  The opposite can happen if I group by a user property like ‘role’ in which the user can have multiple roles. Again for the same event, performed by any users. We can see Feb 21 total events went up to 813.  Is there a concept/principle on how amplitude groups the data, that I am missing?Any ideas o

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Amplitude Admin
Community Manager
3 years ago
morvik
morvikNew Member
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Finding drivers of long term retention

Hi,I’m working on finding drivers of long term retention in our SaaS product (long term in this case means that customers stick around for at least a year or more). I.e. the question I want to answer is: ‘What events or properties are leading indicators of long term retention?’I’ve used both the Compass feature, as well as the cohort comparison feature to try to answer this question, but I find that it’s hard to use them with such a long time frame. I’m curious to hear how other Amplitude users would approach this problem!

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Saish Redkar
Expert
3 years ago
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sebNovice
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Can I createa a cohort with users who have signed between 24 and 72 hours ago?

The title basically. I am looking to create a cohort of new users who’ve been on the app for at least 24 hours, but less than 72. Is this possible to achieve? So far I’ve only managed to create a filter that checks for a new user at any time in the last 3 days, but not one that checks that they signed up at least 24 hours ago.  

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sydney.koh
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3 years ago
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brunolucasNew Member
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IF statement in an analysis?

Hi everyone!I keep track of where we get applications on our website via amplitude. Today, I do so using utm’s, but we still cannot attribute a majority of where our applications came from :(However, I recently added referrer and referring domain as a second potential source. What I want to do now, is create an analysis where I sort my users by utm_source or referrer. To be more specific, if the user has an utm_source, mark her as such. If no utm_source, then mark by referrer. If the user has neither an utm_source or a referrer, then mark as (none). Is it possible to do so?For reference, this is a graph I have today, with applications per utm_source  

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Saish Redkar
Expert
3 years ago
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castor-radieuxNovice
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Amplitude Release monitoring is surprisingly uninformative

Hello,I am surprised how little information comes with the release feature: a few adoption metrics, and the proportion of new events that were added to the release.Where are the dashboards with event deltas, new paths, retention updates? Because of the semantic versioning, all the data is accessible; so is monitoring release from Amplitude not considered like a real use case? Happy to discuss about how the community approaches release monitoring.  

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sydney.koh
Team Member
3 years ago
Amplitude Admin
Community Manager
Amplitude AdminCommunity Manager
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What is Your Favourite Event Segmentation Chart Feature?

Greetings, space travellers and fellow Datamonsters! Here’s a question for you: What’s your fave Event Segmentation chart feature? We want to see the creative ways you’re using our most popular chart type!I’ll start! I love the Formula tab for its flexibility and the flare it brings my analyses… I mean, who isn’t impressed by the ability to quickly calculate the number of users between two user segments?Here’s one I prepared earlier: https://analytics.amplitude.com/demo/chart/new/euyoc4mLet’s hear all your fun, tried and tested ways of using this powerful space-time bending tool. 

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tracy.guo
Team Member
3 years ago
Saish Redkar
Expert
Saish RedkarExpert
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Custom bucket interval controls in Sessions Length Distribution chart

Hello everyone,I noticed that there were some new session metrics available under the User Sessions chart ie. Total Session Counts, Total Time Spent and Average Time Spent per User.Along with this, we can now also customize the shape of the distribution by setting the minimum and maximum session lengths for the Sessions Length Distribution metric.  Using this, is it possible to set custom bucket intervals to specific granularity in the chart by dividing the time bucket as per our need?Previously, the chart showed intervals ranging from secs to mins to hrs in the same chart and was kinda the preferred way for most of our Amplitude users to consume this data.My specific use case is to have all sessions under 1 hr to be shown in intervals of 10 mins and anything above 1 hr in intervals of 1 hr.   I can do this using 2 separate charts, but wanted to know if it can be shown in the same chart. Thanks! 

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Saish Redkar
Expert
3 years ago
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SebastienNew Member
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Can unbounded retention be lower than N-day retention for the same time period?

 I compare weekly N-day and unbounded retention for the same segment, same starting and return event and same period, I often get the longer retentions (W+3 here) with a lower unbounded than N-day retention. But If unbounded retention counts all the users who have returned on Week 3 of later, shouldn’t it be at least as many as the number of users who returned exactly on Week 3?N-Day retention (weekly)Unbounded retention (weekly) 

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sydney.koh
Team Member
3 years ago
Saish Redkar
Expert
Saish RedkarExpert
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Search tab feature - a quick hack

Hello fellow Datamonsters!The Search tab feature is a really handy feature in discovering the artifacts/saved objects created by your Amplitude users. One of the features in this is filtering the charts by owner name under the ‘Filter by'  → ‘Owner’ section .Every user has a user name and an avatar, which can be found in any of the workspaces and on the right side on the header of the charts/cohorts/dashboards owned by a user. A nifty little hack I discovered about this - both the name and avatar are hyperlinked in the UI. Clicking on either of them automatically opens the Search tab with that user's saved objects filtered in the Search view. Pretty neat. ⚡For more on the Search feature you can refer to the doc here.

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Saish Redkar
Expert
3 years ago
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alli.braithNew Member
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Using Amplitude to track growth metrics (CAC) with paid acquisition channels

Hi There,I am trying to set up our KPI dashboard as we start acquiring customer and grow.I really want to incorporate our marketing spend, particularly from our paid search channels, our primary one being facebook.Does anyone know how to achieve this in amplitude?Thank you!

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Amplitude Admin
Community Manager
3 years ago
Nicol Hawkins
Team Member
Nicol HawkinsAmplitude Support
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Are there events in between User Streams?

When viewing User Streams from a data point, are there any events taking place in between those streams or does it represent the exact user path?  

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sydney.koh
Team Member
3 years ago
belinda.chiu
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belinda.chiuAmplitude Support
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[Event Segmentation] How-to make a horizontal annotation or goal line

Currently, we do not support creating goal lines or horizontal annotations in Amplitude. If you are interested in functionality like this, please submit a feature request. In the meantime, you can “hack” custom formulas to create horizontal annotations and set “targets” for various metrics. In this demo example, I’ve multiplied a metric by 0, then added my target value of 120,000. You can rename the labels and y-axis etc. for a more legible chart. Another “hack” is to plot two differently scaled metrics on the same axis. In this example, % Active and Uniques are on totally different scales making the content illegible. You can scale a metric up by multiplying it by a factor of 10 (in this case 100,000) so the metrics appear on the same scale. If doing this, it’s recommended that you indicate the metric has been scaled up by renaming it as I’ve done here.

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3 years ago
sydney.koh
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sydney.kohAmplitude Support
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How to create a Funnel with a step that has one event or the other

I want to make a Funnel where step 2 can be event a or b. Does anyone have any tips for making this?

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sydney.koh
Team Member
3 years ago
tracy.guo
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tracy.guoAmplitude Support
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[Retention] How is Retention Calculated? (N-Day Retention)

The data points you see in the Retention chart are the deduplicated “weighted averages” of all Day N retention values and should match the percentages located in the top row of the breakdown table. It is often easier to digest retention data in Amplitude by looking at the expanded breakdown table below the chart. In the breakdown table, the asterisk means that the day is incomplete for that cohort and the percentage may change as more data comes in. Percentages with asterisks are not calculated in the average unless it is the only data point for that day.For each retention percentage in the data table, the numerator is the number of unique users who performed the return event on their Day/Week/Month N. The denominator for all rows - except the top "All Users" row - is the user count you see in the "Users" column,​ which represents the number of users in that cohort who performed the Starting event that day. Since users can perform the Starting event multiple times in the chart date ran

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tracy.guo
Team Member
3 years ago
belinda.chiu
Team Member
belinda.chiuAmplitude Support
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[Retention] Why does the Retention curve go up?

It is not uncommon to see retention going up, especially if your selected timeframe includes incomplete data points. The main reason why the retention is going up is that we are dealing with uneven sample sizes for each "day" of retention when the date range is very recent. For example, User A became a new user on September 30th. This user would be counted in the denominator of the Day 1 retention rate because this user has had the opportunity to be Day 1 retained. However, this user would not be counted in the Day 10 metric because today is October 2nd and the user hasn't had the opportunity to be Day 10 retained yet. User A is completely excluded in the calculation of Day 10 retention.The line graph will show you the weighted average of all the retention numbers from the user cohorts within the selected time frame. You can see the data for each individual cohort in the table below the chart. Your retention chart is going up because the user cohorts who joined later are given less tim

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belinda.chiu
Team Member
3 years ago
belinda.chiu
Team Member
belinda.chiuAmplitude Support
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[Event Segmentation] How-to see distinct count of devices with PROPCOUNT

Have you ever wanted to know the following:Total count of device IDs used per day Number of devices that a user is using / count of devices grouped by User IDIf so, Amplitude does support a metric called PROPCOUNT in which returns the number of distinct property values for the property the event is grouped by: https://help.amplitude.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001163231#h_46d7c586-591a-4454-989e-74deab6a732fYou can use this custom formula on an Event Segmentation chart to get the total count of device IDs per day: https://analytics.amplitude.com/demo/chart/gqyzg77 And then add a second event group by UserID to get a total count of device IDs per user per day: https://analytics.amplitude.com/demo/chart/848sph6 Please note that the Event Segmentation chart is subject to the dates in the date picker. So you will only be able to see the count of devices each User ID used during the time period selected. 

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belinda.chiu
Team Member
3 years ago

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