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

Why Uber has insanely high valuation or unit economics of self-driven taxi

In the wake of the recent legalisation of Uber in Victoria (Australia) and news about self-driven car test that the company conducting in Pittsburgh, I decided to make a short analysis of self-driven taxi industry prospects. The questions I was interested are: How will introduction of autonomous cabs will change Continue Reading