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
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
Are petrol prices in Australia fair?
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
The most tennis countries: where are the top tennis players from?
It’s end of the January and therefore a tennis time in Melbourne. Australian Open is in high gear; Melbournians and guests can enjoy watching top of the crop tennis athletes playing at their doorsteps. Have you even wondered what countries are the home of good tennis players? I’ve always been, so Continue Reading
What web design Australians prefer?
Designing for who? Do you know what is the difference between great and not so great web designer? Apart from other factors such as technical and creative skills, speed of work and others, great designers design for the target audience. They can set apart their own perception of what is nice and Continue Reading
Shopify is getting more popular than Magento in Australia. At least as a search term
Magento – Shopify: 58 – 100 The number above shows that on 100 searches for Shopify there were only 58 searches for Magento in Australia last week. Seems that Shopify is becoming in higher demand in the land down under according the chart from Google trend below. This chart shows relative Continue Reading