Our Encyclopedia app is now available in 27 languages, and as a result, we needed a good way of tracking both overall sales and the break-down by individual app. Many people have pointed out that iTunes Connect’s analytics capabilities are sorely lacking, so we decided to go ahead and roll our own. As usual, Mathematica came fairly quickly to the rescue:

The code is available as a gist here.

It generates charts that look like this:

(Normally, total sales (in USD) are displayed on the Y axis.)

The script has EYSalesLastMonthPlot and EYSalesByWeekPlot built-in. If anyone cares to add more functionality, we’d be happy to turn this into a proper GitHub project.