It's awesome when you are asked to build a product demo and you end up building something you actually use yourself. That is what happened to me with the Live Earthquake Shiny App.  A few... [Read more...]

The guys at Stack Overflow have recently released a very interesting dataset containing the entire history of questions made by users since the beginning of the site, back in 2008. It's called... [Read more...]

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R Markdown is an amazing tool that allows you to blend bits of R code with ordinary text and produce well-formatted data analysis reports very quickly. You can export the final report in many formats... [Read more...]

R Markdown is an amazing tool that allows you to blend bits of R code with ordinary text and produce well-formatted data analysis reports very quickly. You can export the final report in many formats like HTML, pdf or MS Words which makes it easy to sh... [Read more...]

Recently my friend Andrew Geisler released a new version of the GAR package. Like other similar packages, the GAR package is designed to help you retrieve data from Google Analytics using R. But with... [Read more...]

Recently my friend Andrew Geisler released a new version of the GAR package. Like other similar packages, the GAR package is designed to help you retrieve data from Google Analytics using R. But with some new features.I have been playing a bit with the... [Read more...]

In this post, I want to share some examples of data visualization I was playing with recently. Like in many other occasions, my field of application is digital analytics data. Precisely, data from... [Read more...]

In this post, I want to share some examples of data visualization I was playing with recently. Like in many other occasions, my field of application is digital analytics data. Precisely, data from Google Analytics.You might remember a previous post whe... [Read more...]

Extracting Google Analytics data from one website is pretty easy, and there are several options to do it quickly. But what if you need to extract data from multiple websites or, to be more precise, from multiple Views? And perhaps you also need to summ... [Read more...]

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Are you interested in using R for your digital analytics projects? Do you need to perform prediction modelling and visualizations on your digital data and Excel can´t just do the job as you wanted?Or, you simply have no idea how R could help you in your digital analytics ... [Read more...]

One of the key activities of any web or digital analyst is to design and create dashboards. The main objective of a web analytics dashboard is to display the current status of your key web metrics and arrange them on a single view, so that information ... [Read more...]

This week I got my certificate of completion from the course "Doing Journalism with Data: First Steps, Skills and Tools"(if you like to know more about data journalism check out my post "3 Great Examples of Data Journalism Stories"). I enjoyed the course a lot, and I am proud of ... [Read more...]

When testing an hypothesis with a categorical explanatory variable and a quantitative response variable, the tool normally used in statistics is Analysis of Variances, also called ANOVA.In this post I am performing an ANOVA test using the R programming language, to a dataset of breast cancer new cases across ... [Read more...]

I love the idea of making non-R users playing with my datasets. Thanks to R Shiny package this is is now possible and I am going to post here my code for a simple web application.But first a few lines about Shiny package and my dataset. Okay…if you ... [Read more...]

After searching for a few hours on the web, I’ve been able to get my R code working and plot breast cancer data on a world map. It might not the best looking map possible (R graphics is incredible!), but I am happy with that for now.To produce ... [Read more...]

As mentioned on a previous post, I am interested in analysing if people’s ‘unhealthy’ lifestyle is associated to new cases of cancer diagnosed globally. The outcome variable I want to explore (at least for now), is the number of new cases of breast cancer in 100,000 female residents. I have ... [Read more...]