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big geo-data visualisations
Spotting international conflict is very easy with the GDELT data set, combined with ggplot and R. The simple gif above shows snapshots of Russian/Soviet activity from January 1980 and January 2000. I think it also illustrates how Russia nowadays looks more to the east and the South than during the Cold War. The trend, though...
Mapping the GDELT data (and some Russian protests, too)
(This article was first published on Quantifying Memory, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) In this post I show how to select relevant bits of the GDELT data in R and present some introductory ideas about how to visualise it as a network map. I've included all the code used to generate the illustrations. Because of this, if you here...
Reproducible research with R, Knitr, Pandoc and Word
Below I briefly outline why Pandoc is an essential part of my research workflow, and demonstrate how to seamlessly integrate it with a bibliographic system and code written in R to produce high quality word or pdf documents. I also...
plot textual differences in Shiny
Wordclouds such as Wordle are pretty rubbish, so I thought I'd try to make a better one, one that actually produces (statistically) meaningful results. I was so happy with the outcome I decided to make it interactive, so go on, have a play!
Compare any two...
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
