Do Custom events work with strings? How to analyze them?

Hello, I implemented Unity Analytics on our project yesterday. I created one custom event which is used for letting us know where the player died. It contains the following information:
A string named "Level" which will tell us the name of the scene.
A string named "Position" which contains a string version of a Vector3 with the position of the player in the moment of death.

This is what we need. In the "Integration" section of the site, when I go to "Test Custom Event" it shows that it works by printing this:

• Parameters
• Level > World1Level2
• Position > (66.5, -148.3, -3.6)

Now, the problem is, how do I see this data in the "Data Explorer"? I have no idea how to get a list of the events as shown in the "Test Custom Event" section. The CSV file gives me some numbers, not what I need.
Where can I find this information in an easier to read format than in "Test Custom Event"?

 

Oh, hi Marc!

Thanks for the information. Do you have any alternative on what I could do? I was thinking of changing the event into 2 floats: world number, level number, and 3 floats for the position (for x, y and z). Basically, it would give me something like this:

• Parameters
• Level > 2
• PositionX > 66.5
• PositionY > -148.3
• PositionZ > -3.6
  
• World > 1

I'll check in a couple of hours to see what the CSV gave me.

So, if strings are still not working, what do you suggest for when doing in-game purchases with soft currency? Basically, if the player bought an extra life with in-game coins rather than, say, dollars, what type of event would you suggest for keeping track of this?

 

Oh, ok, I understand then. Thanks for the info

 

I'm also waiting for that "work on exposing categorized data" Marc. Thank you very much.

 

Yup, I'm also waiting for it. Displaying the distribution of a certain value inside a custom event dictionary would be very useful.

I find that most analytics solutions allow custom events with a complex category but with only a single value associated, which is generally a float or a integer. This makes it easy to separate values into categories, but makes it much more problematic to submit, for example, both a score and a duration associated with some event (like a level completed), because these become two different events.

The solution of a single event with the relevant parameters as a dictionary (used in Unity Analytics) looks much more intuitive, but only if we can access the values in useful ways later.

All this to say: please work on this! You're awesome! Thanks!