Rolling Hour of Day

[deion]

I am attempting to make an hourly dashboard in which the hour of today ex 5 PM is compared to the same exact hours yesterday. I've created a few multiple segments such as 24 individual segments with exclusions to create a rolling hourly comparison, however, none of my attempts have worked. Is anyone aware of a way to show a daily comparison of performance at the hourly level which excludes hours that haven't happened in the day vs. Yesterday only shows hours which are equivalent to Today. 

[amgup]

@deion If I am right than you want to compare the data from the previous day on hourly basis. To achieve this you can right click on metric name in Workspace project -> Click on Add Time Period column -> click on Prior date range to this date range. Than use the hour dimension to compare the data on hourly basis with previous date.

Refer the below screenshot :-

[deion]

Hi Amgup,

Thank you for the response, so I' m aware of this version. I think I need to explain a bit further, I'm attempting to make this automated with rolling dates which presents the issue, that I can get it to perform as noted when manually building it, however, upon attempting to automate this it all goes down hill haha. 

[akt0m3r]

Hi @deion, could you please try using the "Hour of Day" metric for automaton and see if that helps!

[David_Jerome · Accepted solution]

Hi There,

I have managed to solve this for you.

The first thing you need is a "5pm Visit" such as below:

Then you need the following:

Change Number "7" for the period you want to look back.

So if your report is showing days, it will be 7 days, if it is weeks it will be 7 weeks.

I hope that helps.

Dave

[deion]

Hi David, thank you for the response and logic. So an additional question. If i need a full 23 hour coverage, would I just need to replicate the 5pm hour setup 22 additional times? Or does this change your process at all?

[David_Jerome]

@deion - yes if you want to create this for every hour of the day then you will need to repeat 23 times. Are you going to be using workspace or another tool (API / Datawarehouse)? I only ask because in workspace you will need to have 24 columns (you can't pivot this work with rows) which might make the report a little slow.

[David_Jerome]

@deion - sorry I have just reread this. I am afraid this not going to be possible in Adobe. The main reason is because while you can build a custom metric that only counts the hours of yesterday that have passed, it will never be a fair comparision because Adobe will look at the whole hour. So as an example if it is 12:15pm, the previous day will have a 45 minute advantage - skewing your numbers.

[akt0m3r]

Let me add to what David mentioned about hourly data comparison. Adobe Analytics processes the data in batches, which means you will not be seeing the data updating every minute in hourly Dashboard. Here is a document which explains the same: https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/analytics/technotes/latency.html?lang=en#understanding-data-...

[jantzen_b]

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