Building a Video Analytics Dashboard with Chart.js

Understanding how trending videos perform across regions is crucial for a multi-region platform. Here's how I built an analytics dashboard for TopVideoHub using Chart.js and PHP. Data Collection First, we need to track metrics per region over time: CREATE TABLE analytics_daily ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY , date TEXT NOT NULL , region TEXT NOT NULL , total_videos INTEGER DEFAULT 0 , total_views BIGINT DEFAULT 0 , avg_views INTEGER DEFAULT 0 , top_category_id INTEGER , unique_channels INTEGER DEFAULT 0 , cross_region_count INTEGER DEFAULT 0 , UNIQUE ( date , region ) ); A daily cron job populates this table: function recordDailyAnalytics ( \PDO $db ) : void { $date = date ( 'Y-m-d' ); $regions = [ 'US' , 'GB' , 'JP' , 'KR' , 'TW' , 'SG' , 'VN' , 'TH' , 'HK' ]; foreach ( $regions as $region ) { $stats = $db -> query ( "SELECT COUNT(*) as total_videos, COALESCE(SUM(v.view_count), 0) as total_views, COALESCE(AVG(v.view_count), 0) as avg_views, COUNT(DISTINCT v.channel_id) as unique_channels FR