One of the announcements of RStudio conf 2020 that caught my eyes is a brand new package {bootstraplib} - https://github.com/rstudio/bootstraplib/ . It’s another open-source contribution from RStudio (a PBC). {bootstraplib} basically provides tools for theming shiny and rmarkdown from R via Bootstrap (3 or 4) Sass. If you’re not aware of Bootstrap, it’s one of the most popular (open-source) css...
Bar Race Animation Charts have started going Viral on Social Media leaving a lot of Data Enthusiasts wondering how are these Bar Race Animation Charts made. The objective of this post is to explain how to build such Bar Race Animation Charts using R — R with the power of versatile packages. Packages The packages that are required to build animated...
One of the problems that we usually face with ggplot is that rearranging the bars in ascending or descending order. If that problem is solved using reorder() or fct_reorder(), the next problem is when we have facets and ordering bars within each facet. Recently I came acrosss this function reorder_within() from the package tidytext (Thanks to Julia Silge and Tyler...
Kannada MNIST dataset is another MNIST-type Digits dataset for Kannada (Indian) Language. All details of the dataset curation has been captured in the paper titled: “Kannada-MNIST: A new handwritten digits dataset for the Kannada language.” by Vinay Uday Prabhu. The github repo of the author can be found here. The objective of this post is to demonstrate how to use...
In this post, We’ll see 3 functions from tidyr that’s useful for handling Missing Values (NAs) in the dataset. Please note: This post isn’t going to be about Missing Value Imputation. tidyr According to the documentation of tidyr, The goal of tidyr is to help you create tidy data. Tidy data is data where: + Every column is variable. + Every row is an...
Web Scraping in R Web scraping needs no introduction among Data enthusiasts. It’s one of the most viable and most essential ways of collecting Data when the data itself isn’t available. Knowing web scraping comes very handy when you are in shortage of data or in need of Macroeconomics indicators or simply no data available for a particular project like a...
India is the world’s largest Democracy and as it goes, also a highly diverse place. This is my attempt to see how “Hindi” and other languages are spoken in India. In this post, we’ll see how to collect data for this relevant puzzle - directly from Wikipedia and How we’re going to visualize it - highlighting the insight. Data Wikipedia is a...
REGEX is that thing that scares everyone almost all the time. Hence, finding some alternative is always very helpful and peaceful too. Here’s a nice R package thst helps us do REGEX without knowing REGEX. REGEX This is the REGEX pattern to test the validity of a URL: ^(http)(s)?(\:\/\/)(www\.)?(*)$ A typical regular expression contains — Characters ( http ) and Meta Characters (). The...
udpipe is a beautiful R package for Text Analytics and NLP and helps in Topic Extraction. While most Text Analytics resources online are only about English, This post picks up a different lanugage - Tamil and fortuntely, udpipe has got a Tamil Language Model. Loading library(udpipe) Tamil Text Below is part extracted from a Tamil Movie Review text % ggplot() + geom_bar(aes(reorder(lemma,-n),n),...
Zomato is a popular restaurants listing website in India (Similar to Yelp) and People are always interested in seeing how to download or scrape Zomato Restaurants data for Data Science and Visualizations. In this post, We’ll learn how to scrape / download Zomato Restaurants (Buffets) data using R. Also, hope this post would serve as a basic web scraping framework...
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