This little research was inspired by an article by Mark Ritson in Marketing Week, titled “Synthetic data is suddenly making very real ripples“. The article discusses a new approach to quantitative marketing research. Instead of surveying hundreds to thousands of people, this approach uses data from large language models like Continue Reading
Using OpenAI API with N8N to work with your Magento store
After the release of ChatGPT, AI became an even hotter topic than it used to be. Everyone and their dog are trying to become a ChatGPT expert, so I decided to take the plunge too. Since my business is related to eCommerce, I started to think about what you can Continue Reading
Cracking the DTC Code: Unraveling the Financials of Step One
This article has been originally posted in my LinkedIn. Recently thanks to Jason Andrew reference I had a chance to read through a half-year investor presentation of ASX listed Australian DTC business Step One. Step One is a DTC business selling bamboo underwear online in Australia, UK and US. It is a good Continue Reading
Updated AUPolitics project to work with S3 instead of DB
Some time ago I developed a little project that collects Aussie politicians tweets and present several visualizations. It’s available at https://rserv.levashov.biz/shiny/rstudio/ That time I has quite generous credits from AWS, so haven’t worried too much about costs. Unfortunately credits are about to expire, so I had to optimize the tech Continue Reading
The future of Magento as a brand
When last May Adobe Inc acquired Magento for $1.68B it sparked number of discussions: will Magento stay open-source, how Adobe approach enterprise market and many others. Close to one year after acquisition and between Adobe Summit and Magento Imaging I asked myself the next question: what is the future of Continue Reading
Clash of SaaSes: Mailchimp vs Shopify
Yesterday we witnessed an exchange of blows between two popular Software-As-A-Service providers Mailchimp and Shopify after the latter decided to remove Mailchimp application from Shopify store. That things happen in business, but now the parties decided to post quite harsh public statements, which is more rare. It however helps o Continue Reading
Australian tech companies and taxation
How the bigges tech companies paid their share of taxes in Australia, 2016-2017 data ATO has published a fresh data about the biggest taxpayers, so I decided to revisit how the biggest and apparently the best Aussie and global technology businesses with Australian presence paid their taxes. I wrote a similar Continue Reading
DB connected R application on open-source Shiny server, part 1
As a follow-up of my previous study of Australian politicians on Twitter I’ve decided to build a more sophisticated, autonomous solution. The idea at glance: Collect regularly tweets from Members of Australian Parliament Store them in the database Visualize findings (in up-to-date state) in web dashboard A goal here is Continue Reading
R plus Magento 2 REST API revisited: part 3 – more complex samples of use
This is 3rd part of series about working with Magento 2 REST API in R. If you haven’t read previous posts in this series, I would recommend to do it. This article sample use the functions defined in previous posts. You may find them at R plus Magento 2 REST API Continue Reading