Author: hrbrmstr
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R⁶ — General (Attys) Distributions
Matt @stiles is a spiffy data journalist at the @latimes and he posted an interesting chart on U.S. Attorneys General longevity (given that the current US AG is on thin…
Ten-HUT! The Apache Drill R interface package — sergeant — is now on CRAN
I'm extremely pleased to announce that the sergeant package is now on CRAN or will be hitting your local CRAN mirror…
R⁶ — Disproving Approval
Rasmussen makes their Presidential polling data available for both ? & O. Why not compare their ratings from day 1 in office (skipping days that Rasmussen doesn't…
Replicating the Apache Drill 'Yelp' Academic Dataset Analysis with sergeant
The Apache Drill folks have a nice walk-through tutorial on how to analyze the Yelp Academic Dataset with Drill . It's a bit out of date (the current Yelp data set structure is different enough that the tutorial will error out at various…
Keeping Users Safe While Collecting Data
I caught a mention of this project by Pete Warden on Four Short Links today. If his name sounds familiar, he's the creator of the DSTK , an O'Reilly author, and now works at Google. A decidedly clever and decent…
Engaging the tidyverse Clean Slate Protocol
I caught the 0.7.0 release of dplyr on my home CRAN server early Friday morning and immediately set out to install it since I'm eager to finish up my sergeant package and get it on CRAN. "Tidyverse" upgrades aren't trivial for me as I…
R⁶ — Scraping Images To PDFs
I've been doing intermittent prep work for a follow-up to an earlier post on store closings and came across this CNN Money "article" on it. Said "article" is a deliberately obfuscated or lazily crafted series of GIF images that contain all…
Drilling Into CSVs — Teaser Trailer
I used reading a directory of CSVs as the foundational example in my recent post on idioms…
L.A. Unconf-idential : a.k.a. an rOpenSci #runconf17 Retrospective
Last year, I was able to sit back and lazily "RT" Julia Silge's excellent retrospective on her 2016 @rOpenSci "unconference" experience. Since Julia was not there this year, and the unconference experience is still in primary storage (LMD…
R⁶ — Idiomatic (for the People)
NOTE: I'll do my best to ensure the next post will have nothing to do with Twitter, and this post might not completely meet my R⁶…