Data Visualization For Fun and Profit

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Proposal
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osb2010-0297

Excerpt

How to improve your software (and your business) using a bit of math, some Python code, and R, the world's best free statistics software.

Description

Users interacting with your software and services create a lot of hidden data: web server access logs, click trails, file revisions, incomplete orders and abandoned shopping carts, and the like. Whether you’re trying to speed your software up, improve your conversion rates, or just make some nice dataviz art to decorate your office, there are a few simple data analysis techniques that can help you out.

This session will show you how to use the Python and R languages to generate informative graphs and predictions from a variety of sources, including SQL databases, server log files, and the filesystem of your own computer.

Tags

python r math dataviz art

Speaking experience

Speaker

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    Lennon Day-Reynolds

    Dark Horse Comics

    Biography

    Lennon Day-Reynolds recently joined Dark Horse Comics as a software developer, fulfilling a life-long dream of combining his love of nerdy pop culture with software and the Internet. He currently works on digital publishing, e-commerce, and back-office applications for Dark Horse and its sister company, Things From Another World. He has a decade of experience building systems for organizations ranging from small non-profits to Fortune 500 corporations using open source operating systems, infrastructure, and programming languages.

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