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RK Kuppala
RK Kuppala

Reputation: 356

Capturing user data for machine learning and recommendations

I am in an infrastructure guy so forgive if the question sounds naive. I need to work with a dev partner in capturing the following data from a PHP web application.

The idea is to pump all this data to a data store to run machine learning algorithms to come up with near real-time recommendations. I would like to understand to what extend does a standard cookie can track this data. Is it possible to collect all of this data?

What is the right way to go about collecting this data?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 147

Answers (1)

Abhinav
Abhinav

Reputation: 8168

Everything about the user can be stored in a database for future reviews which is the best way to keep a track of user on what he does on the website.

To give a few ideas,

1) Time of entry ==> When the user enters the website just, having a TIME_STAMP field will do the trick, which will automatically update the user's entry value.

2) For detecting OS => just use var_dump(PHP_OS);

3) For detecting browser,device => $_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"]; will do the trick

4) Current page the user is on => This can be stored in a $_SESSION variable and it can be kept updating every time the user goes to some other page and store that too in the database

5) UserActions => Depends on what actions you want to capture and the same can be updated in the database as well.

Upvotes: 1

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