2016
Over 50 practical recipes for data analysis with R in one book
2016/05/11
Ah, writing a blog post! This is a pleasure I was forgetting, and you can guess it looking at last post date of publication: it was around january... you may be wondering: what have you done along this long time? Well, quite a lot indeed:
2015
how to list loaded packages in R: ramazon gets cleaver
2015/09/10
It was around midnight here in Italy:
I shared the code on Github, published a post on G+, Linkedin and Twitter and then went to bed.
In the next hours things got growing by themselves, with pleasant results like the following:
https://twitter.com/DoodlingData/status/635057258888605696
The R community found ramazon a really helpful package.
And I actually think it is: Amazon AWS is nowadays one of the most common tools for online web applications and websites hosting.
tags:
algorithm /amazon /analytics /apps /aws /data analytics /R /Rstudio /shiny /shiny apps /
Introducing Afraus: an Unsupervised Fraud Detection Algorithm
2015/07/02
The last Report to the Nation published by ACFE, stated that on average, fraud accounts for nearly the 5% of companies revenues.
on average, fraud accounts for nearly the 5% of companies revenues


Projecting this number for the whole world GDP, it results that the “fraud-country” produces something like a GDP 3 times greater than the Canadian GDP.
tags:
algorithm /analytics /apps /computer science /data /data analysis /data analytics /fraud /fraud analytics /internal audit /R /shiny /shiny apps /
How to add a live chat to your Shiny app
2015/05/11
As I am currently working on a Fraud Analytics Web Application based on Shiny (currently on beta version, more later on this blog) I found myself asking: wouldn’t be great to add live chat support to my Web Application visitors?
It would indeed!
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an ancient example of chatting - Camera degli Sposi, Andrea Mantegna 1465 -1474[/caption]
tags:
analytics /apps /chat /data analysis /R /shiny /shiny apps /tutorials /
2014
Querying Google With R
2014/11/19
If you have a blog you may want to discover how your website is performing for given keywords on Google Search Engine. As we all know, this topic is not a trivial one.
Problem is that the analogycal solution would be quite time-consuming, requiring you to search your website for every single keyword, on many many pages.
Feeling this way?
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“Pain and fear, pain and fear for me” - Oliver Twist[/caption]
tags:
algorithm /analytics /apps /google /R /Rstudio /SEO /shiny /shiny apps /social media /social media analytics /web query /