Analysing Crude vs Petrol prices

Crude price is at an all-time low. It has been falling since 2012 but the car owners perception is that petrol prices don’t always accompany this fall. For this analysis, I used crude and dollar CSV data sets you can find with a simple google search and my car’s consumption data set that I have used in other blog posts. By the way, you can learn how to use CSV files in this post. Let’s load the data in Viur and let’s see what we can do with it. The first thing that I want to see the Crude Price evolution. Impressive rise and fall! Now I’m going to check the price per liter to...

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Launch Day + Analytics

The big day has come, and we finally released the Beta version of Viur for a selected few. This post describes what tools we used and how we used them. Since day one we have a subscription form on the landing page to capture early adopters. This allowed us to have a good user pool to start working as soon as we had something to show. For this, we used Mailchimp, which has a generous free tier and allows you to set up email campaigns and track opens and clicks among other things. In the main site we use two awesome tools: Google Analytics to track specific metrics (like bounce, exit rate,etc...), goals and specific events we...

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