I’ve recently started working as a data science freelancer for voopter.com.br, helping them analyze the data generated by airfare searches on their website. Voopter is a metasearch engine for flights from and to Brazil. The first thing I did was to create an interactive dashboard in R and shiny for some explorative statistics of the millions of seaches performed by users of their website (which has already led to more specific business-driven questions).

The dashboard provides a quick and easy way to filter and aggregate the data, which is stored in an SQL database. The idea is …