Welcome to the Hotel CaliforniaAs promised in last week's post, this week: sentiment analysis, also with song lyrics.Sentiment analysis is a method of natural language processing that involves classifying words in a document based on whether a word is positive or negative, or whether it is related to a ...

This is the start of the tutorial series, where we will cover visualising and manipulating data in R. There will be a series of mini checkpoints that should be used as a guide to check understanding. To check the most basic functionality of R (you can use it as a ...

NOTE: This is part of a series of write-ups discussing my findings of Texas high school academic University Interscholastic Scholarship (UIL) competitions. To keep this and the other write-ups concise and to focus reader attention on the content, I have decided not to show the underlying code (especially that which ...

Competition Participation Some of the first questions that might come to mind are those regarding the number of schools in each level of competition (District, Region, and State) and each conference classification level (1A, 2A, … 6A). It seems fair to say that the distribution of schools among Districts, Regions, and ...

Let’s take a look at individual competitors in the academic UIL competitions. Individual Participation The first question that comes to mind is that of participation–which individuals have competed the most? NOTE: To give some context to the values for individual participants, I’ll include the numbers for myself (“...

16 Personalities While back, my husband introduced me to this fun online personalities test called 16 personalities. I’ve taken the test, and my personalities type came back as Mediator (Code: INFP - Role: Diplomat) There were difinitely some traits that sounded like me, and a lot of statement I can relate ...

I currently live in British Columbia, Canada. So I live above 49th parallel line. One of things that’s pretty awesome living up north is the fact you get so much longer daylights in summer time! Currently it’s May, and I’m just in love with longe...

Another correlation function?! A table A Plot A print Options Fun with p-hacking Credits Another correlation function?! Yes, the correlation function from the psycho package.

<span>devtools</span><span>::</span><span>install_github</span><span>(</span><span>"neuropsychology/psycho.R"</span><span>)</span><span>  </span><span># Install the newest version</span><span>

</span><span>library</span><span>(</span><span>psycho</span><span>)</span><span>
</span><span>library</span><span>(</span><span>tidyverse</span><span>)</span><span>

</span><span>cor</span><span> </span><span><-</span><span> </span><span>psycho</span><span>::</span><span>affective</span><span> </span><span>%>%</span><span> 
  </span><span>correlation</span><span>()</span><span>
</span>

This function automatically select numeric variables and run a correlation analysis. It returns a psychobject. A table We can then extract a formatted table ...

The openrouteservice provides a new method to get geodata into R. It has an API (or a set of them) and an R package has been written to communicate with said API(s) and is available from GitHub. I’ve just been playing around with the examples on this page, ...

The cloc Perl script (yes, Perl!) by Al Danial (https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc) has been one of the go-to tools for generating code metrics. Given a single file, directory tree, archive, or git repo, cloc can speedily give you metrics on the count of blank lines, comment lines, and ...

With tensions heightened recently at the United Nations, one might wonder whether we’ve drawn closer, or farther apart, over the decades since the UN was established in 1945. We'll see if cluster analysis can provide some clues. The post An East-West less divided? appeared first on thinkr.

Problem Image that someone in a bank want to find out whether some of bank’s credit card holders are acctually the same person, so according to his experience， he set a rule: the people share either the same address or the same phone number can be reasonably regarded as ...

wrapr 1.4.1 is now available on CRAN. wrapr is a really neat R package both organizing, meta-programming, and debugging R code. This update generalizes the dot-pipe feature’s dot S3 features. Please give it a try! wrapr, is an R package that supplies powerful tools for writing and debugging R code. ...

My PhD supervisor once told me that everyone doing newspaper analysis starts by writing code to read in files from the ‘LexisNexis’ newspaper archive. However, while I do recommend this exercise, not everyone has the time. These are the first words of the introduction to my first R package, LexisNexisTools. ...