Business Analytics using R & Shiny Apps
PGDM-Research & Business Analytics
2016-2018
Project Objectives
To perform Apache HTTP Server Log Analysis which will help us to
to enhance our knowledge about R
to develop exploratory & visualization skills
to enable us to use language & coding skills in complex situations
Project Overview
The project had to be done across multiple steps which included
understanding a sample HTTP access log file
reading a log file using file input control in shiny app
analyzing as required to find out about requests sent to server, timestamp , host,etc
visualizing results in shiny app
Screenshot of the application
Analytics
This web application when provided with a any suitable log file, helps us in analyzing the log entries as follows:
Number of page hits and bytes with respect to date
Number of page hits and bytes with respect to hour
Number of page hits and bytes with respect to host
Number of page hits and bytes with respect to method
Number of page hits and bytes with respect to url
mainly to know the patterns in traffic to a particular webpage
Meeting Project Objectives
Objectives were met using:
appropriate functions of R
visualization tools in shiny app
Experience with R
For Data Analytics, there seems to be no better language than R especially when it comes to very large datasets.With R multiples objectives can be met successfully in spite of how large the operations are
