The “medals” R post by [TRInker](http://trinkerrstuff.wordpress.com/2014/02/09/sochi-olympic-medals-2/) and re-blogged by [Revolutions](http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2014/02/winter-olympic-medal-standings-presented-by-r.html) were both spiffy and a live example why there’s no point in not publishing raw data. You don’t need to have R (or any other language) do the scraping, though. The “`IMPORTHTML`” function (yes, function names seem to be ALL CAPS now over at Google… Continue reading
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Easier HTML Table-scraping For Scripts With Google Drive
We had our first, real, snowfall of the season in Maine today and that usually means school delays/closings. Our “local” station – @WCHS6 – has a Storm Center Closings page as well as an SMS notification service. I decided this morning that I needed a command line version (and, eventually, a version that sends me… Continue reading
Google Spreadsheet “importHTML” Rocks For Quick Analytics
I usually take a peek at the Internet Traffic Report (ITR) a couple times a day as part of my routine and was a bit troubled by all of the red today: I wanted to do some crunching on the data, and I deliberately do not have Word or Excel on my new MacBook Pro… Continue reading