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Alex Levashov – eCommerce Consultant (Melbourne, Australia)

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Australian tech companies and taxation

Posted On December 18, 2018December 18, 2018 By Alex Levashovcomment

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

Category: Researches

DB connected R application on open-source Shiny server, part 1

Posted On December 11, 2018December 11, 2018 By Alex Levashovcomment
Shiny App

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

Category: e-commerce/tools

R plus Magento 2 REST API revisited: part 3 – more complex samples of use

Posted On December 2, 2018 By Alex Levashovcomment

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

Category: Researches/thoughts

Scraping data about Australian politicians with RSelenium

Posted On November 21, 2018November 22, 2018 By Alex Levashov4 Comments
APH website screenshot

While there is more and more data available in structured formats (CSV, JSON) through initiatives like OpenData, sometimes nicely formatted data still not publicly available. When I decided to conduct a little study of what Australian politicians from the major party post in Twitter. So I decide to find list Continue Reading

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R plus Magento 2 REST API revisited: part 2 – filtered search

Posted On November 14, 2018November 16, 2018 By Alex Levashovcomment
Nested product - Rstudio screenshot

In previous post I wrote about how to set connection with Magento 2 REST API from R and make queries to universal search. Now let’s see how  use filtered search. Also we’ll use other than universal search endpoints that provide access to more specific Magento 2 store information. Using filtered Continue Reading

Category: e-commerce/thoughts

R plus Magento 2 REST API revisited: part 1- authentication and universal search

Posted On November 7, 2018November 7, 2018 By Alex Levashovcomment
Magento 2 REST API with R hero image

I wrote a post about getting Magento 2 data to R using REST API last year. Now I provide more examples of use and a wrapper over API that you can re-use to get data from Magento 2 to R in a bit more convenient way. Prerequisites Magento 2 I Continue Reading

Category: Researches/thoughts

Are petrol prices in Australia fair?

Posted On October 30, 2018October 30, 2018 By Alex Levashov1 Comment
Crude oil and retail petrol prices scatterplot

Petrol is a product that used by most of Australians. So people are pretty sensitive to price changes, especially when the fuel become more expensive. With prices reaching $1.6 for unleaded the debates are becoming more and more hot. Are greedy petrol traders ripping off Australians or the price changes Continue Reading

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Shopify customer segments

Posted On March 5, 2018 By Alex Levashovcomment

Not so long time ago Shopify has published its annual report.  Thanks to the fact that Shopify is a publicly traded company and obliged to publish such reports, we have a rare opportunity to get better understanding how the business of leading ecommerce platform work. If you wish to view full Continue Reading

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