Articles by Jose

How popular is the President of Mexico on Twitter?

March 18, 2014 | Jose

Twitter simultaneously allows people to be heard and to hear, easily and in real time, bringing with it potentially fascinating and ground breaking insights for anybody trying to take the public’s pulse on a hot issue.  It is almost mandatory that so much benefit comes with its challenges, namely ...
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Poverty and Crime in Mexico – Interactive Map

March 6, 2014 | Jose

How safe is Mexico? That is a frequent question people ask me. There is even  website about it  (see this blog post). So I’ve decided it was time to go one step further and make an interactive map (click here for full screen) of poverty and crime in Mexico. ... [Read more...]

How to create a geojson in R

January 22, 2014 | Jose

This is a short but sweet post on how to create a geojson file in R .  Remember that you can render geojson files in github.   The post How to create a geojson in R appeared first on Jose Gonzalez. [Read more...]

Using Google maps API and R

September 3, 2013 | Jose

This post shows how to use Google Maps‘ API with R. Combine the first part with Plyr and it becomes a very powerful tool in just a few lines of code. You can find a gist in RMarkdown with the code here or click below to continue reading. The post ... [Read more...]

Mexico City’s Metro Statistics

June 24, 2012 | Jose

I used R and ggplot2 to make a bubble map of Mexico City’s Metro passenger count from January to February 2012. The statistics are stunning, some stations for example Indios Verdes, reached 10 million passengers in jus three months. You can see the code below and get the data for the ... [Read more...]

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