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by sent-hil 1422 days ago
Yes you're right. In the Github link in the post, that's what they do as well. It helps to a small degree, but it's not nearly enough data for building an analytics app.

I was hoping there would be a dataset that would follows real world patterns vs whatever I generate from my understanding of the api.

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What real world patterns though?

Your traffic, stats, and bounce rates, returning customer rates will vary practically 100% depending on:

- If you sell a good physical product

- If you dropship utter rubbish and advertise on Instagram spam stories where people buy a single thing and never come back or chargeback instead

- Digital items for games for adults

- Digital items for games for kids