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Segregating Re-Installers and Fresh Installers

  • 29 December 2020
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Using the “Launched the App” along with the 1st time ever filter on the Insights report (or even cohorts) gives us two sets of users:

  • Fresh Installers: Users who have indeed installed and opened the app for the 1st time ever on that particular device
  • Re-Installers: Users who had installed the app, uninstalled it due to some reason, and after a hiatus, re-installed it again

Our objective is to segregate these 2 types of users as they would typically exhibit different behaviors (as one set of users have interacted with the app) and sign-up/login tracking would be different (identities on Mixpanel differ pre and post sign-up).

One brute force solution is to get the advertising IDs (GAIDs) of the active users from say Aug-Oct and then map them against the GAIDs for the news users in Nov to get the intersection (re-installers cohort).

Is there any other way in which we can do this? We are not sure if our solution will work and scale as per our expectations.

 

 

 

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Jaya
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Not sure if there is a very good way of doing it since Mixpanel by itself doesn’t track installs. But have you tried $device_id property? Not necessarily sure, but may be it stays same across installs?

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Yes the $device_id will certainly be a better proxy to identify compared to advertising ID.

The challenge still remains that everyday we have about ~5 Mn unique users (resulting in ~5 Mn unique device IDs) so an excel analysis is quite difficult.

How can we identify the users who were active in Aug-Oct, then uninstalled the app and re-installed it again in Nov? We’ll have to get the device IDs of All Active Users from Aug-Oct, then take device IDs of New Users (Launched the App for the 1st time ever) in Nov, and find an intersection to get the re-installers.

Is it possible to do this on Mixpanel itself?

Jaya
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The best I can think of is that you maintain the list of device ids seen in your product and while sending the “Launched the app” event also send a property “new_device_id”, which is true if you are seeing this device id for the first time. Then use this property for your Mixpanle analysis.

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This sounds like an interesting idea Jaya! Thank you so much. We’ll try creating this new property.

Do let us know if you have any further tips and ideas!

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