Welcome to the world of Picalo, a collaborative, open-source effort to produce a data analysis application suitable for auditors, fraud examiners, data miners, and other data analysts!

 

 

 

Example uses of Picalo:

• Analyzing financial data, employee records, and purchasing systems for errors and fraud
• Importing Excel, XML, EBCDIC, CSV, and TSV files into databases
• Interactively analyzing network events, web server logs, and system login records
• Importing email into relational or text-based databases
• Embedding controls and fraud testing routines into production systems

 

 

Want to know how Picalo compares to other products like ACL, IDEA, or Numarray?

 

 

Picalo is currently being used by organizations like the World Bank to stop corruption in developing countries.

 

 

Picalo supports different languages, and it currently supports English and Portugues.

 

 

1. Auditors and data analysts who have a bent towards information technology. These people want a powerful application they have explicit control over, and they are willing to brave the learning curve that warrants such power and control.
2. Less technical, "regular" data analysts who want to efficiently use the skills of #1.
3. Python-based analysts who want a GUI to run their routines within. For example, Picalo would make an excellent front end to the Numeric/Numarray Python libraries.