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Asked: 2026-06-10T15:19:58+00:00

I love graphs . I’d love to get my hands on some data and

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I love graphs.

I’d love to get my hands on some data and make it look pretty. But alas, I’m a little lost on what would be considered best practice.

I’ve selected mixpanel (only as an example) as I seems wonderfully easy to track custom events, and doesn’t have any subdomain limitation like Google Analytics.

Say I had 100-1000+ users who have an account (which is publicly facing), and I’m currently tracking the public interactions their pages get. With mixpanel, I can see the data which is lovely, and I’ve segmented it to individual accounts. So far, so good!

But then, I want to show my users this information. And here my head begins to hurt. Do I schedule a cron jobs, pulling in the data from mixpanel and writing it to their respective accounts? Or is there a better way? I’ve looked into mixpanel’s api (I’m using Ruby), but they keep telling me I should use the javascript api. But in using JS, how does one prevent others getting the data (ie. what’s stopping someone faking mixpanel api-posts in the console, or viewing my private key?).

What would you consider a practical solution in such a case?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can achieve this by storing the user specific events of each user with a $bucket property attached which has a value unique to each user as explained in the mixpanel docs here Mixpanel docs. If you want to still use ruby to serve the events, have a look at Mixpanel’s recommended ruby client libraries
    mixpanel_client looks like the much maintained option of the 2 mentioned. If you go with that then you can serve user specific events as shown in the example below(which is also in the gem’s readme):

    data = client.request do
  # Available options
  resource  'events/properties'
  event     '["test-event"]'
  name      'hello'
  values    '["uno", "dos"]'
  timezone  '-8'
  type      'general'
  unit      'hour'
  interval   24
  limit      5
  bucket    'contents'
  from_date '2011-08-11'
  to_date   '2011-08-12'
  on        'properties["product_id"]'
  where     '1 in properties["product_id"]'
  buckets   '5'
end
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