North Sky Games
Analytics Migration & Data Governance
Standardizing Behavioral Definitions Across Platforms
Context
Different teams at North Sky Games were looking at user behavior data and drawing different conclusions, not because they were wrong, but because they were working from different definitions. The same player action could mean different things depending on which system tracked it and how. In practice, teams were not just looking at different data. They were looking at different versions of reality.
What I did
I led the migration from Unity Analytics to Firebase and standardized an event taxonomy of over 100 events. That meant defining how each event was named, what it captured, and how it mapped across platforms. It also meant validating that what teams were seeing in reports actually matched what was happening in the product.
Impact
100+ events standardized
Shared behavioral definitions across product, marketing, and analytics
Once the taxonomy was in place, teams could finally compare results with confidence. That sounds straightforward but it was a meaningful shift. Conversations about performance stopped getting derailed by questions about whether the numbers were even measuring the same thing.
What I took from this is that data does not just describe behavior. It defines what behavior means inside an organization. Every decision about what to track and how to name it shapes what people can see and what they end up caring about.