How to transform data from the Google Analytics Reports module into charts?

Question

I'm using Google Analytics Reports to bring in Google Analytics data into Views, this works fine, but I'd like to display this data as a chart.

I've tried with two different charts modules: Charts and Google Chart Tools. Both require you to use Aggregation in views to group the data, but this isn't something the Google Analytics Reports module supports.

Can anyone recommend a way around this or a different approach?

Answer 1

You can use the API sub-module within the Google Analytics Reports module and use

DataViz module for the visual representation.

You could use http://blog.amazeelabs.com/en/comment/257249 for reference.

Answer 2

According to the Google Analytics Reports issue about "Use Aggregation", the 7.x-3.x version (for which only a beta2 is available at this moment) should support this now.

That's also what's written in comment #1 of it, ie:

See chart examples in the latest 7.x-3.x version.

What isn't obvious to discover, is that these examples have a weak module dependency of the Charts module:

• If the Charts module exists, then (and only then ...) the sample view is available.
• Though the .info file of the Google Analytics Reports module does not mention Charts as a dependency.

So if the Charts module isn't enabled yet, these example charts will show up as soon as you (download and) enable it.

Disclosure: I'm a co-maintainer of the Charts module.