What is Picalo?

Picalo

Picalo is a cool, collaborative tool that's open-source and designed for people who work with data. Whether you're an auditor, fraud examiner, or just someone who loves digging into data, this app has got your back!

Data Analysis Made Easy

Picalo specializes in pulling data from corporate databases. Think employee records and sales data. But it doesn’t stop there! You can use it for all sorts of analyses.

Quick Installation

The best part? Picalo installs super fast! You won’t have to deal with a long setup process before you can start exploring its features. It’s designed to be user-friendly right from the get-go.

Detectlets: The Heart of Picalo

The main goal of Picalo is to build a huge library of fraud detection methods called Detectlets. You can use the built-in methods or create your own! If you come up with something great, feel free to share it with the Picalo community.

Bridging Users Together

This app is all about teamwork. With Picalo's Detectlet framework, users who are good at scripting can make wizard-based routines that help others in their organization. This way, everyone gets to benefit from those advanced skills!

Powerful Script Features

Picalo shows you the script code for everything you do in the GUI, which is pretty neat! There's also a function composer that helps you put together function calls easily.

Advanced Analysis Capabilities

You’ll find some advanced analysis routines in Picalo that other tools don’t offer. For instance, you can group by days when looking at labor and time card data.

Smoothing Data Automatically

If you want to achieve smoothness in your data analysis automatically, Picalo has got your back there too!

User-Friendly Scripting Language

Picalo uses Python for scripting—it's powerful yet easy to learn! Plus, there's a shell feature where you can type commands one by one and see results instantly—like running a script line by line.

Your Go-To Tool for Data Analysis

All in all, Picalo is an awesome application that focuses on analyzing data specifically for fraud detection and more!

How Download Works

Go to the Softpas website, press the 'Downloads' button, and pick the app you want to download and install—easy and fast!