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• Piwik Analytics and becoming a Piwik Certified Professional

  10 juillet 2017, par Piwik Core Team — About

  Digital Analytics software

  Piwik Analytics is the leading open source digital analytics software, offering users around the world an opportunity to liberate their analytics. Most recently, they have introduced the Piwik Certified Professional certification exam which now allows users to become qualified in Piwik Analytics software on an individual level to gain a deeper understanding of Piwik. In this blog post I will guide you through the topics that are covered during the exam and provide you with advice on taking the official Piwik Certified Professional exam.

  

  Piwik certification exam

  Taking the exam will cost you a maximum investment of 60 minutes of your time, besides learning all materials of course. The exam consists of 55 multiple choice questions with four answers to choose from. The score needed to pass is 80% (44 questions answered correctly) and the cost is 50 USD total. An earned certificate is valid for 18 months, before these eighteen months are over a person should pass the exam again in order to retain the certified status.

  Learning topics

  The exam consists of two sections. The main section is focused on the Piwik Analytics software itself while the second part relates to digital analytics in general. All topics and content covered about Piwik Analytics is available through the official Piwik user guides. The second section tests your experience as a digital analyst, online marketer or any other function title in which you work with Piwik Analytics. In this case, the general digital analytics questions should be quite straightforward and easy to answer, and cover only a fraction of the total questions in the exam (around 10% with 5-7 general questions). An outline of all exam topics are listed below :

  • A Tour of Piwik
  • Track Goals and Measure Conversions
  • Event Tracking
  • Content Tracking
  • Ecommerce Analytics
  • Row Evolution – View and compare historical data
  • Segmentation – Compare segments of visitors
  • Visitors Maps – World, region, city
  • Real Time Visitor World Map
  • Real Time Analytics
  • The Visitor Profile
  • Site speed and Page speed
  • Site Search Tracking and Reporting
    
  • Transitions – Analyze the previous and following actions of your visitors for each page
  • Page Overlay
  • Custom Variables Analytics
  • Custom Dimensions
  • User ID
  • Annotating your data
  • Tracking Campaigns
  • URL Builder for Marketing Campaign Tracking

  The best way to prepare for the exam is read the entire Piwik user guides. You should definitely read the “Analytics Features” section since most questions of the Piwik Certified Professional – Digital Analytics exam that will be asked come from these sections. Furthermore you should be able to find your way around in Piwik at a basic level which means you know what the reports mean and where to find certain information. In addition, some basic knowledge regarding the settings is useful too. The exam is definitely not a technical implementation exam so no coding knowledge or any other deeply technical knowledge regarding Piwik is required.

  Finally, some general questions will be asked regarding digital analytics covering topics about KPI’s and the role of the analyst within an organization. While Piwik provides some links to articles by Avinash Kaushik covering these topics, you will not be able to learn these topics just by reading. When you have some experience with digital analytics you should be able to answer these general digital analytics questions with common sense and (even basic) experience as a digital analyst, analytics consultant, online marketer or any other related job whereby you work with Piwik.

  Taking the exam

  With 55 questions to be answered in 60 minutes the key to passing the exam is to keep moving. You have about 1 minute and 5 seconds to answer each question. This means that you should focus on the easiest questions first and return later to the questions that are a bit more challenging to answer. Keep an eye on the timer that will be displayed in the exam window. When the time expires or you click ‘Finish test’ your exam will end and be automatically submitted for review. Remember to first check all questions and answers before you click on the ‘Finish test’ button. If you click too soon and you still haven’t answered all questions, all unanswered questions will be marked as incorrect.

  During the test, no hard copy or online materials may be referenced. As you can imagine, it is almost impossible to check if users reference these kind of materials. However, be aware of the penalty system that is in place during the test. When a user leaves from the active test screen to another screen (i.e. a different browser tab) the screen turns red and provides a warning count when the user returns to the test screen again. You will have three warnings, after this your test will be submitted and graded as false. Furthermore, keep in mind you will have to do the test in one go and cannot pause and come back another time.

  Practice makes perfect

  Below I have included some example questions that could be asked during the exam. These questions do not necessarily represent how Piwik will test you on these topics.

  • What is the default report date that is selected by Piwik ?
  • Why would someone flatten a report in Piwik ?
  • Why would a user especially use the Page Overlay report ?
  • What are the three main Ecommerce interactions tracked with Piwik ?
  • What is an example of an anonymized IP address in Piwik ?

  Passing the Piwik Certified Professional – Digital Analytics exam

  Directly after submitting the exam you will receive a notification telling you whether or not you have passed the exam. If you pass, you will be able to download your personal certification right away. A report of your exam performance will also be available. This report lists the amount of correct answers and total questions by topic. The report with your exam performance is also available if you did not pass the exam. The certificate is valid for 18 months from the date of successful completion.

  Sometimes the difference between passing and failing can be a matter of how you interpret some of Piwik’s questions. There are several tricky questions included, so be sure to pay attention to detail on every question. If you fail, you may take the exam again. You will have to pay the 50 USD fee for each try, so do your best to pass it the first time.

  → Register to become a Piwik Certified Professional.

  We wish you the best of luck and happy analytics !

• ffprobe to bitrate variable stopped working

  6 novembre 2023, par Bricktop

  I have a simple script to encode a video using the same bitrate as the original. I use ffprobe to fetch the bitrate like this :

  


  ffprobe "%file%" -v 0 -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=bit_rate -print_format compact=p=0:nokey=1 >%temp%\bitrate.txt


  


  However, while fixing a but in the script where I had an odd number of " marks, I suddenly ran into this problem with ffprobe :

  


  Argument ' -v 0 -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=bit_rate -print_format compact=p=0:nokey=1 >C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\bitrate.txt' provided as input filename, but 'D:\VIDEO\AMBIANCE\SCOPITONE\MUSIC TELEVISION\This Here - Calm - OFFICIAL VIDEO (1080p 25fps AV1-128kbit AAC).mp4' was already specified.


  


  I am trying to understand this, scanning insanely for yet another " or something in my code but can't figure it out. Here is the full code :

  


  :: write file to queue (first)
move /y "%~dpn0.txt" "%temp%\%~n0.tmp" >nul
echo "%~1" >"%~dpn0.txt"
type "%temp%\%~n0.tmp" >>"%~dpn0.txt"

:: desyncronize instances (todo: try support for adding 9 files at a time)
timeout /t %time:~9,1% /nobreak
:: if not first instance exit
tasklist /fi "imagename eq handbrakecli.exe" | find /i "handbrakecli" && exit
title Transcode

:: delegate queue
for /f "delims=" %%f in (%~dpn0.txt) do (
    set "name=%%~nf"
    set "file=%%~f"
    rem todo: if file has x264 or other video codec mentioned, change to x265
    set "code=%%~dpnf (x265 transcoded)%%~xf"
    call :transcode
)
echo all done!
exit /b

:transcode
title "%name%"
if not exist "%file%" echo %date% %time% source file missing %file% >>%~dpn0.log & goto cleanup
if exist "%code%" echo %date% %time% target file exists %file% >>%~dpn0.log & goto cleanup

:: determine appropriate bitrate (does not seem to work on .webm files, closing the script as a result)
%~dp0ffprobe "%file%" -v 0 -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=bit_rate -print_format compact=p=0:nokey=1 >%temp%\bitrate.txt
set /p bitrate=<%temp%\bitrate.txt
:: reduce to full kilobytes
set "bitrate=%bitrate:~0,-3%"
if not defined bitrate echo failed to fetch bitrate & echo %date% %time% no bitrate for %file% >>%~dpn0.log & exit /b
if %bitrate% gtr 7000 set bitrate=7000

:: transcode
%~dp0HandBrakeCLI -i "%file%" -o "%code%" --encoder x265_10bit --encoder-preset slow --encoder-profile main444-10 --vb %bitrate% --two-pass --turbo --audio 1-9 --aencoder copy --audio-copy-mask aac,ac3,mp2,mp3,opus --audio-fallback opus --ab 160 --drc 2.0

:: remove current file from queue, regardless
:cleanup
findstr /v /c:"%file%" "%~dpn0.txt" >"%temp%\%~n0.tmp"
move /y "%temp%\%~n0.tmp" "%~dpn0.txt"


  


  It appears that the set "file=%%~f" is the problem, somehow it shows up as set "file=D:\VIDEO\this video here.mp4" " where the last two characters " should not belong, and I don't know what to change to fix this.

  


  Every type of improvement to the script is very welcomed !

  


• OpenCV (3.3.0) returns fail on VideoCapture with Video but works with Webcam [OS X]

  1er novembre 2017, par njoye

  Thanks for reading already, I’ve been trying to get this to work for a day and I didn’t get closer to the solution.

  I’m trying to get this object tracker to work. When I use a video from my webcam (with : python object-tracker-single.py -d 0, everything works as expected.

  But as soon as I’m trying to use a video file (i’ve tried different formats : .mp4, .mkv & .avi. I also tried to use the file given in the repository, that didn’t work as well. To see if there is a File not found-Error, I passed an invalid path to the function and an error got printed, that has not been printed when I used the other videos. So the file(s) i’m using is(/are) valid and not corrupted.

  I installed dlib through homebrew following this article and compiled OpenCV from the official source. This is the CMakeCache.txt that CMake spit out. After the first time I compiled it, I added opencv_contrib to the mix, thinking that it could help (I also think that I actually needed it), but that didn’t fix the problem.

  This is the code I’m having problems with :

  # Create the VideoCapture object
  
  cam = cv2.VideoCapture(source)
  
  
  
  # If Camera Device is not opened, exit the program
  
  if not cam.isOpened():
  
      print "Video device or file couldn't be opened"
  
      exit()
  
  
  
  print "Press key `p` to pause the video to start tracking"
  
  while True:
  
      # Retrieve an image and Display it.
  
      retval, img = cam.read() #<-- this returns false when trying to read a video 
  
      if not retval:
  
          print "Cannot capture frame device"
  
          exit()

  At the marked line, retval equals False and image equals None.
  It would already help me if I could somehow debug this behavior, but I didn’t find any way of doing so.

  I found that many Windows Users had problems with missing ffmpeg support, but that is not the case for me, since I used ffmpeg in previous (not OpenCV-related) projects and CMakeCache.txt reports that ffmpeg has been found and the compilation succeeded.

  I also tried using a fully qualified file-name for the video file, which either resulted in Video device or file couldn't be opened or the given problem.

  If you have any idea how this problem can be completely resolved, have an Idea on how to solve it or can provide me with a way of properly debugging this behavior, I’d be super glad to here it !

  Thanks already !

  -

  System : MacBook Pro (macOS Sierra 10.12.6)

  OpenCV Version : 3.3.0

  Dlib Version (not necessary imo, but hey) : 19.4.0

  Edit 2
  Output of cmake -DOPENCV_EXTRA_MODULES_PATH=../opencv_contrib-master/modules ../ >> result.txt : pastebin