BigCommerce, a company behind SaaS ecommerce platform is going to IPO. In this blog post I’ll try to make a prediction, what will be company market capitalization. The time will show am I right or wrong soon.
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
Scraping data about Australian politicians with RSelenium
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
R plus Magento 2 REST API revisited: part 2 – filtered search
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
R plus Magento 2 REST API revisited: part 1- authentication and universal search
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