lamdavo / livestream_tremor_ecommerce_analytics

Tinybird + Tremor eCommerce Analytics

This repo is a demo application showing you how to build an eCommerce analytics dashboard using Tinybird and Tremor.

You can find the live stream for this demo here.

Running the demo

1. Create a Tinybird account
2. Copy your Auth Token from your empty Tinybird Workspace
3. Clone this repo
4. Inside the repo folder, go to the tinybird folder and create a new virtual python environment python3.11 -m venv .venv
5. Activate the Python virtual environment source .venv/bin/activate
6. Install the Tinybird CLI pip install tinybird-cli
7. Authenticate the Tinybird CLI tb auth and paste your Auth Token when asked
8. Push the Tinybird resources to Tinybird tb push
9. Go back to the main repo folder, then enter the dashboard folder
10. Create a .env.local file, and use the following template:

NEXT_PUBLIC_TINYBIRD_TOKEN=<my token>

11. Replace the <my_token> string with the Auth Token you copied earlier, save the file
12. Install the npm dependencies npm install
13. Run the development server npm run dev
14. You should now have a functional dashboard, but you won't have any data
15. To generate fake data, use Mockingbird
16. Select the Tinybird Destination
17. Enter your Auth Token into the Auth Token box
18. Set the Data Source name to sales_events
19. Click Continue
20. Copy the contents of the sales_event.json files, and paste it into the Schema box in Mockingbird
21. Click Start Generating
22. You should now get mock data arriving in Tinybird, and your dashboard should start to populate