Exploring custom events data.

Hello!

I'v done custom event which should send me average framerate and computer specification of player.

UnityAnalytics.CustomEvent("ComputerSpecificationsInMainMenu", new Dictionary<string, object>
{
{"Average FPS", m_lastFramerate},
{"SystemInfo.processorType", SystemInfo.processorType},
{"SystemInfo.graphicsDeviceName", SystemInfo.graphicsDeviceName},
{"SystemInfo.systemMemorySize", SystemInfo.systemMemorySize}
});

It works, and I have data collected from users already, but I have no idea how to track sent events so I could take a look at exact specifications combined with average fps performance. I know I won't be able to do this by metrics so I would like to get into the raw data. Is there any way to do this?

 

Hello!
Thank you for that fast response.

The problem is that CSV file gives me only number of events sent daily - not the exact event parameters.
I'v uploaded the spreadsheet into google docs to let you see what exactly I mean - https://docs.google.com/a/gloriavic...8h77o_IpyDj-NQ-3Im7LWle8Ik/edit#gid=134229240
http://gyazo.com/2733f8cd729b1ac8e8f207ca43a998c3

 

Well i've got exactly the same need.
I'm developping a 3DViewer and i want to know which data is loaded on a CustomEvent ...

Can we get all the JSON logs somewhere?
Thanks

 

I'd also like to see a nice breakdown of the parameter I'm passing with my custom event.

I'm testing the Unity Analytics on a jigsaw puzzle game. I send a custom event whenever a puzzle is played, along with a single integer parameter to identify which puzzle.

My count for Friday is shown as 27 'puzzle played' events. I'd like to see which puzzles were actually played but the parameter is not given either in the Data Explorer or in the downloaded CSV file.

E.g. the breakdown for the 27 events might look something like this:

Puzzle 1 played 12 times.
Puzzle 2 played 10 times.
Puzzle 3 played 5 times.

Total 27 events.

 

Hi,
I would like to know if download all the records for one event will be available in the future.
I have this event game_over (level) and I would like to know how many times users have achieved each level. Count average or sum don't help me to understand this type of info.
Thanks!

 

Hi, just want to make a bit more noise about the need for better tools for analysing custom event data.

At the very least you need a way to get at the low-level data contained within each custom event, just a list of events with each parameter in a column would do for now, or even the raw data in .csv if that'll be quicker to implement. EDIT: Actually, I think I'd prefer the CSV now I think about it to make it easier to analyse.

Once that's in, you can be safe in the knowledge that your users can get access to all the data they send up to the server, even if it's a bit awkward.

From there it's about allowing us to cross reference between data to make correlations between users. I've worked on creating analytics tools before and the thing that I've never seen before is the addition of a really strong query tool. Something that lets us ask "Between dates X and Y, how many users have an event of type Z with attached parameter A between values B and C?"

It doesn't need a pretty chart, just a single number would be perfectly acceptable.

PS The integration is fantastically simple, really looking forward to seeing how this develops. I'm a paying user and think offering analytics support as premium feature would be entirely reasonable given costs of running the servers etc.

 

Hey @Twice Circled,

As @marc_tanenbaum mentioned, we're actively discussing what we can do to improve the current Data Explorer functionality to help address the use cases posted in this thread, so additional feedback is always appreciated

And thanks for your note regarding integration - we're also really excited to see how this product develops, and we'll make sure to keep the community updated on our progress!

 

I wouldn't like to spam another thread, but is there a chance that events won't work after making them under
if ( !Application.isEditor ) ?
As when I did all of them we'v stopped to receiving events at all. Of course I wanted to do this to not false results from initial testing.

 

I'm going to add another note for "making noise" - a data export is very important. I want to be able to pull deeper game stats on my games, make scatter plots, run regressions, correlations, create segments, etc. I want to be able to load the data up in a SQL database and go to town.

The export does not have to be pretty - I and I'm sure other members of the community can write parse tools, and we can share code. I wouldn't devote a whole lot of programming time to making it fancy, just make it complete.

 

Hi @ViNull - The Unity Analytics team is actively working on this so we appreciate the "noise." We'll keep the community updated on how this develops so please keep your feedback coming.

 

Making a lot of noise over here about seeing the parameter I'm passing with my custom event.

 

Hi @derkoi - Thanks for feedback. We will add it to our list.

 

@sschan Thanks

 

This is exactly what I'm most curious about. I'm testing it out and in a way, Unity Analytics is great: I'm not only passing numeric data (average FPS and the alike) but also a lot of string-based data... things like the user's platform, where they're coming from ("portal" my game is in), OS, build version, etc... but, right now, there's no way for me to visualize it.

Ideally we'd just have a way to build custom charts based on values of certain parameters. I know some of this is possible (e.g. platforms) if we build segments and whatnot, but it's really cumbersome and doesn't apply to custom metrics.

For illustration, a while ago I was testing another third-party analytics service, and I was able to customize their dashboard to show this technology breakdown, shown here with stats for a simple (Ludum Dare) game:



This service was somewhat limited in what I could actually track (e.g. I was tracking the portal the game was in by using it as the "Area" field) and the data was kind of fishy (lots of "nulls") but the presentation itself was superb. Not just because I was able to visualize the data that was coming in, but because I could customize it to my needs.

I know UA has the data portion really well served. It's just missing the visualization.

 

Hey @zeh - thanks for your comments and the screenshot! We are actively working on updating the visualizations for custom events, and we plan to have a new version up in the next few weeks. We'll make sure to post in the forums once it's live

 

Custom charts/reports would be stellar!

My most "urgent" need would be to at least be able to pull reports that just have the custom even parameters in it like so:
date, time_in_game, score, power_ups_used, continues_used, etc.

Just a CSV with the native data and column headers would be perfect.

Even better if we can simply view them online with some basic features like filter, sort, and simple search - much like Tablesorter for jQuery. But also please have something that shows the sum/count/average of columns which is dynamically updated with the filter. Much like selecting cells in Excel and seeing the sum/count/average at the bottom of the window.

More advanced stuff for report building would be awesome, but I'd expect to pay for that and ultimately we could do that ourselves by downloading the data.

 

Hey @Naphier - Thank you for the feedback. We'll add it to our feature list requests. Keep your suggestions coming!

 

Hi, any update about the string custom event visualization?

 

Hey @DarkPixel - we're working on the updated custom events visualization. Once it's ready (hopefully in the next few weeks!) we'll make sure to post in the forums to let everyone know.

 

Any update on this? It would be extremely useful.

 

Another friendly neighborhood Spider-Man "daily bugling" for some fly-on-the-wall abilities to visualize and see raw data from custom events.

Is that an upcoming feature or did you decide to take a different route?

 

@marc_tanenbaum Any updates? This "nearly" thing started over a year and a half ago.. I understand you want to do this right and build some kick-ass visualizers but in the meantime can we have access to our own raw data? Because the dirty alternative you proposed is painstalking, requires a-priori knowledge of what filtering we want (per level, per item etc) and scales terribly.

Thanks!

 

@marc_tanenbaum thanks for the update! Looks like I didn't do my research properly

We can talk more about the application-specific things my team needs through PMs.

 

I need a pro license just to export some CSV data?
That's just too expensive for me.

Does anybody know a different solution to gather some basic telemetrics data on your project thats exportable to CSV?

I'm trying to gather the average completion time in correlation with the size of my (2D) board. (to fine-tune difficulty setting) I'm already capturing this data with analytics, just need a way to grab the data and get it in excel.
Are there other (more cheap) services that can provide this?

This is my first game, I'm still learning, I have no money coming in ("yet" she added hopefully). I simply dont have 1500EUR/year lying around for an occasional CSV download.

 

^thank you. i can work with that

 

Another question of mine, I have a event which sends us on which region player is each few minutes of his play time and when I see results of it I can see only 10 terrains and "others" line.
While explorting CSV same issue happens, what can we do about that as its quite new issue for us?

 

The OP is doing what I would like to do, get the average FPS for a given scene and hardware setup. Is there still no way to meaningfully parse this data? The documentation doesn't tell us anything about how custom events are presented to us, and the demo doesn't have any custom events for us to poke around in. I'm also not seeing any way to disable analytics if I'm testing in the editor, unless it just does that automatically. The documentation is horrible.

 

Thanks. That is helpful. I'll just have to figure out how to segment the various hardware devices without creating an overwhelming number of segments.

The biggest problem I have with the docs is that it just doesn't show me how the data will be presented. That's helpful in determining how to structure things. As it stands now I feel like I'm running blind.

I'm assuming I can just disable analytics in the services window and reenable it when I want to create a build or test the setup, right?