Category: R
Everything filed under R.
Geom❤️
This particular ❤️ math pilfered this morning from…
Diving Into Dynamic Website Content with splashr
If you do enough web scraping, you'll eventually hit a wall that the trusty httr verbs (that sit beneath rvest ) cannot really overcome: dynamically created content (via javascript) on a site. If the site was nice enough to use XHR…
Strung Out On String Ops - A Brief Comparison of stringi and stringr
I made a promise to someone that my next blog would be about stringi vs stringr and I intend to keep said…
Exploring News Coverage With newsflash
I was enthused to see a mention of this on the GDELT blog since I've been working on an R package dubbed newsflash to work with the API that the form…
One View of the Impact of the New Immigration Ban (+ freeing PDF data with tabulizer)
Dear Leader has made good on his campaign promise to "crack down" on immigration from "dangerous" countries. I wanted to both see one side of the impact of that decree — how many potential immigrants per year might this be impacting — and…
Create Parquet Files From R Data Frames With sergeant & Apache Drill (a.k.a. Make Parquet Files Great Again in R)
When you're in this larger-data world, parquet files are one of the core data storage formats. They're designed to be compact and are optimized for columnar operations. Unlike CSV, JSON files or even R Data files, it's not necessary to…
Workout Wednesday Redux (2017 Week 3)
I had started a "52 Vis" initiative back in 2016 to encourage folks to get practice making visualizations since that's the only way to get better at virtually anything. Life got crazy, 52 Vis fell to the wayside and now there are more…
The Devil's in the [Davos] Details — A quick look at this year's WEF Global Risks Report
It's Davos time again. Each year the World Economic Forum (WEF) gathers the global elite together to discuss how they're going to shape our collective future. WEF also releases their annual Global Risks Report at the same time. I read it…
Knit directly to jupyter notebooks from RStudio
Did you know that you can completely replace the "knitting" engine in R Markdown documents? Well, you…
2017-01 Authored Package Updates
The rest of the month is going to be super-hectic and it's unlikely I'll be able to do any more to help the push to CRAN 10K, so here's a breakdown of CRAN and GitHub new packages & package updates that I felt were worth raising awareness…