Tracking anonymous users

[trung]

We want to track “anonymous users / users who have yet logged in”. Upon logging in, we want to be able to associate all their anonymous data to their user id.

Are there guides or documentation to help us do this?

[umeshk]

Hi,
Have you tried this one?
https://snowplowanalytics.com/blog/2014/04/16/identity-stitching-snowplow-vs-google-universal-analytics-kissmetrics-and-mixpanel/

this may also help

Identifying users (identity stitching)

Identifying users in your Snowplow data Any attempt at understanding your users has to start with identifying which events, in your Snowplow atomic data set, describe actions that were carried about by particular users. We call this process ‘identity stitching’: it is the process of stitching together the myriad individual events that describe individual user journeys. Stages in identity stitching With each event, track as many different user identifiers as possible Use events where multiple i…

[petervcook]

The aforementioned blog article from 2014 mentions “The Analytics Cookbook” http://snowplowanalytics.com/analytics/customer-analytics/identifying-users.html however, that URL now just redirects to the homepage.

Is there a new place that Cookbook lives?

[ihor]

@petervcook, that “cookbook” does not exist any longer I’m afraid. We have, however, the standard webmodel available in this repository: https://github.com/snowplow/web-data-model.