Articles by Christopher Gandrud

A Link Between topicmodels LDA and LDAvis

May 8, 2015 | Christopher Gandrud

Carson Sievert and Kenny Shirley have put together the really nice LDAvis R package. It provides a Shiny-based interactive interface for exploring the output from Latent Dirichlet Allocation topic models. If you've never used it, I highly recommend checking out their XKCD example (this paper also has some nice background). ... [Read more...]

Set up R/Stan on Amazon EC2

December 10, 2014 | Christopher Gandrud

A few months ago I posted the script that I use to set up my R/JAGS working environment on an Amazon EC2 instance.Since then I've largely transitioned to using R/Stan to estimate my models. So, I've updated my setup script (see below). There are a few... [Read more...]

Quick and Simple D3 Network Graphs from R

June 8, 2013 | Christopher Gandrud

Sometimes I just want to quickly make a simple D3 JavaScript directed network graph with data in R. Because D3 network graphs can be manipulated in the browser–i.e. nodes can be moved around and highlighted–they're really nice for data exploration. They're also really nice in HTML presentations. ... [Read more...]

Dropbox & R Data

April 11, 2013 | Christopher Gandrud

I'm always looking for ways to download data from the internet into R. Though I prefer to host and access plain-text data sets (CSV is my personal favourite) from GitHub (see my short paper on the topic) sometimes it's convenient to get data stored on Dropbox. There has been a ... [Read more...]
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