Have you ever wondered whether the most active/popular R-twitterers are virtual friends? :) And by friends here I simply mean mutual followers on Twitter. In this post, I score and pick top 30 #rstats twitter users and analyse their Twitter friends’ network. You’ll see a lot of applications of rtweet ...

I’m very happy to announce that reqres has been released on CRAN. reqres is a new (in R context) approach to working with HTTP messages, that is, the requests you send to a server and the respons it returns. The uunderlying mechanics of a web server is seldom something ...

Nathan Eastwood, Data Scientist I was recently introduced to the Twitter Waterflow Problem and I decided it was interesting enough to try and complete the challenge in R. Consider the following picture: This plot shows a series of walls and empty valleys. We can represent this picture by an array ...

Part of 8 in the series Numerical AnalysisThe Trapezoidal Rule is another of Closed Newton-Cotes formulas for approximating the definite integral of a function. The trapezoidal rule is so named due to the area approximated under the integral representing a trapezoid. Although there exist much more accurate quadrature methods, the... The ...