With the VW Dieselgate event as empirical seeting, this page shows you how to fetch data in R, perform an Event Study, and do some basic plots with our R package. library(tidyquant) library(dplyr) library(readr) Data Preparation We use the package... [Read more...]

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Global choropleth maps Today I’m writing about using country-level choropleth maps at a global level, using example data showing nations’ military spending as a percentage of GDP. There are a few specific issues to work through as a result of the... [Read more...]

What is the causal impact of the TseTse fly on historical and current development in Africa? Marcella Alsan studies this question in her fascinating article ‘The effect of the TseTse fly on African development’ in the American Economic Review, 2015... [Read more...]

What would you say if you could automatically wrap your R pipeline – which consists of numerous functions and variables – into a single function? What would you say if you could do it repeatedly, with no extra effort regardless of its complexity? Would you store it to document your progress at ... [Read more...]

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Docker is generally used for application development and deployment. While it is possible to develop and deploy Shiny applications in Docker containers, I have found it is much more useful to keep a Shiny Docker container that is a twin of my productio... [Read more...]

Docker is generally used for application development and deployment. While it is possible to develop and deploy Shiny applications in Docker containers, I have found it is much more useful to keep a Shiny Docker container that is a twin of my productio... [Read more...]

Docker as a Disposable Test Environment Docker is generally used for application development and deployment. While it is possible to develop and deploy Shiny applications in Docker containers, I have found it is much more useful to keep a Shiny Docker... [Read more...]

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In a previous post, I discussed the key elements that really stood out for me in recent workshops associated with open science, data science, and ecology. Summer workshop season is upon us, and here are some principles to consider that can be used to hack a workshop. These hacks can ... [Read more...]

As I mentioned earlier this week, I was on a team at the ROpenSci Unconference (with Brooke Anderson, Karl Broman, Gergely Daróczi, and my Microsoft colleagues Mario Inchiosa and Ali Zaidi) to work on a project to interface the R language with Minecraft. The resulting R package, miner, is ... [Read more...]

Next week will be the first EARL conference in San Francisco.. The team here at Mango have worked hard to put together an excellent program with great speakers. However with so many interesting talks it can be hard to decide which to attend. For example, Rich Pugh is a huge ... [Read more...]

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We held our 4th annual unconference in Los Angeles, May 25-26, 2017. Scientists, R-software users and developers, and open data enthusiasts from academia, industry, government, and non-profits came together for two days to hack on projects they dreamed up and to give our online community an opportunity to connect in-person. The ... [Read more...]

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The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is the main standard for tracking the inflation of the U.S. dollar. The various CPI measures are published monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For this walk-through, we will be using the blcsrapeR package to downl... [Read more...]