"Unifying Multichannel Data with Webhooks" - user identities

[Gustavo Frederico <gu...@thinkwrap.com>]

The page at http://predictionio.incubator.apache.org/datacollection/webhooks/
speaks about "Unifying Multichannel Data with Webhooks" saying that
"Webhooks are used to collects data for your application from multiple
channels automatically."  Where can I get more details about these
"webhooks" ? I'm thinking specially about the need to correlate user
identities from separate data sources. Is there something inside the
Event Server to work with that, or does that need to exist outside
PIO?

Thanks

Gustavo

Re: "Unifying Multichannel Data with Webhooks" - user identities

[Gustavo Frederico <gu...@thinkwrap.com>]

Thanks for the information. These webhooks are interesting.

Yes, what I meant by the need to correlate user identities is that I'm
foreseeing that I'll have user ids in events coming from separate
systems, and while they will have different ids, they represent the
same person. So I need to correlate them. Pat answered in the other
list that there's nothing special in the Event Server to help with
that. When I get to implement this scenario, I'll look at some fast
persistence thingy (NoSQL probably) to store the user id associations.
I'm not sure if that will be as webhook or before the events get to
the Event Server, but now that I've seen the webhooks, I may go with
it.

Thanks

Gustavo




On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 1:48 AM, Kenneth Chan <ke...@apache.org> wrote:
> more details of how to use channel is here:
> http://predictionio.incubator.apache.org/datacollection/channel/
>
> there are some implementation here (segment, mailchimp)
> https://github.com/apache/incubator-predictionio/tree/develop/data/src/main/scala/org/apache/predictionio/data/webhooks
>
> basically it simply takes webhook data from those sources and convert to PIO
> events.
>
> would you elaborate more about "the need to correlate user identities from
> separate data sources" ?
>
> Kenneth
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Gustavo Frederico
> <gu...@thinkwrap.com> wrote:
>>
>> The page at
>> http://predictionio.incubator.apache.org/datacollection/webhooks/
>> speaks about "Unifying Multichannel Data with Webhooks" saying that
>> "Webhooks are used to collects data for your application from multiple
>> channels automatically."  Where can I get more details about these
>> "webhooks" ? I'm thinking specially about the need to correlate user
>> identities from separate data sources. Is there something inside the
>> Event Server to work with that, or does that need to exist outside
>> PIO?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Gustavo
>
>

Re: "Unifying Multichannel Data with Webhooks" - user identities

[Kenneth Chan <ke...@apache.org>]

more details of how to use channel is here:
http://predictionio.incubator.apache.org/datacollection/channel/

there are some implementation here (segment, mailchimp)
https://github.com/apache/incubator-predictionio/tree/develop/data/src/main/scala/org/apache/predictionio/data/webhooks

basically it simply takes webhook data from those sources and convert to
PIO events.

would you elaborate more about "the need to correlate user identities from
separate data sources" ?

Kenneth



On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Gustavo Frederico <
gustavo.frederico@thinkwrap.com> wrote:

> The page at http://predictionio.incubator.apache.org/datacollection/
> webhooks/
> speaks about "Unifying Multichannel Data with Webhooks" saying that
> "Webhooks are used to collects data for your application from multiple
> channels automatically."  Where can I get more details about these
> "webhooks" ? I'm thinking specially about the need to correlate user
> identities from separate data sources. Is there something inside the
> Event Server to work with that, or does that need to exist outside
> PIO?
>
> Thanks
>
> Gustavo
>