Show HN: Heap is a new approach to analytics. Just capture everything

Re:Show HN: Heap is a new approach to analytics. Just captur... by physcab on Friday March 22, 2013 @02:36PM (#5424717)

I imagine that your event feed is going to get pretty unwieldy if you have a thousand events named like the following:

  div.star.empty
  button.btn.btn-primary
  button#nodisturb.muted
  a.bold-text.text

Do you have any ideas how you are going to overcome this? It seems unintuitive.

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Re:Show HN: Heap is a new approach to analytics. Just captur... by matm on Friday March 22, 2013 @02:38PM (#5424733)

Very keen observation. There are a number of ways to solve this problem. Machine learning helps (there are a few simple heuristics we currently use to sort the Event Feed).

But the right interface for defining events helps even more.

Sorry for the frustratingly mum response.

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Re:Show HN: Heap is a new approach to analytics. Just captur... by pnt on Friday March 22, 2013 @02:58PM (#5424875)

What if you tracked the event's parents, e.g. button <- div <- .sidebar <- body, etc.? When presenting the events to the user, you could hide generic parents like 'div' and only show interesting parents with ids or classes. To search through events, perhaps the user could use css selector syntax in addition to the current UI you have.

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