2017

Data acquisition in R (2/4)

November 6, 2017 | Ilya Kashnitsky

R is an incredible tool for reproducible research. In the present series of blog posts I want to show how one can easily acquire data within an R session, documenting every step in a fully reproducible way. There are numerous data acquisition options for R users. Of course, I do ...
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Automating Summary of Surveys with RMarkdown

November 6, 2017 | R Views

This guide shows how to automate the summary of surveys with R and R Markdown using RStudio. This is great for portions of the document that don’t change (e.g., “the survey shows substantial partisan polarization”). The motivation is really twofold: efficiency (maximize the reusabililty of code, minimize copying ...
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A history-oriented introduction to R for Excel users

November 6, 2017 | David Smith

While spreadsheets are fine tools for collecting and sharing data, the temptation is often there to also use them for in-depth analysis better suited to reproducible systems like R. Historian Jesse Sadler recently published the useful guide Excel vs R: A Brief Introduction to R, which provides useful advice to ... [Read more...]

Introducing Data360R — data to the power of R

November 6, 2017 | tcdata360blog

Introducing data360r, an R package we recently developed that allows users to interact with the TCdata360 API and query TCdata360 data, metadata, and more using easy, single-line functions. Original post can be seen at: https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/introducing-data360r-data-power-r
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Scraping Javascript-rendered web content using R

November 6, 2017 | Abdul Majed Raja

Web Scraping, which is an essential part of Getting Data, used to be a very straightforward process just by locating the html content with xpath or css selector and extracting the data until Web developers started inserting Javascript-rendered content in the web page. Hence a css selector or an xpath ...
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Cointegration, Correlation, and Log Returns

November 6, 2017 | cfsmith

Co-Author: Eric Kammers I recently created a Twitter account for the blog where I will curate and comment on content I find interesting related to finance, data science, and data visualization. Please follow me at @Quantoisseur (see the embedded stream on the sidebar). Enjoy the post! The differences between correlation ...
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A teeny tiny Twitter tale

November 5, 2017 | HighlandR

Use of social media within the NHS to raise awareness of dangerous conditions - We had an event at work today, bringing together clinicians and QI staff across a range of disciplines and services to provide some education and raise awareness ...
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A teeny tiny Twitter tale

November 5, 2017 | HighlandR

Use of social media within the NHS to raise awareness of dangerous conditions - We had an event at work today, bringing together clinicians and QI staff across a range of disciplines and services to provide some education and raise awareness ...
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A teeny tiny Twitter tale

November 5, 2017 | HighlandR

Use of social media within the NHS to raise awareness of dangerous conditions - We had an event at work today, bringing together clinicians and QI staff across a range of disciplines and services to provide some education and raise awareness ... [Read more...]

Setting fire to deployment: Heroku

November 5, 2017 | Data Imaginist

There are many ways to utilize fiery: It can be the engine behind a local running web-app, it can serve a dynamic site running on your own server, or it can serve a more demanding service by running in the cloud. In this post I’m going to focus on ...
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pinp 0.0.4: Small tweak

November 5, 2017 | Thinking inside the box

A maintenance release of our pinp package for snazzier one or two column vignettes is now on CRAN as of yesterday. In version 0.0.3, we disabled the default \pnasbreak command we inherit from the PNAS LaTeX style. That change turns out to have been t...
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Mythical Generic Overhead

November 4, 2017 | QuestionFlow

Computational overhead analysis of using generic+method approach instead of if-else sequence and switch statement. Prologue Earlier this week I came across this tweet from Thomas (author of many useful and powerful R packages): Should If else blocks that checks class always be converted to generic+methods? Please discuss #rstats— ... [Read more...]
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