Getting Started Getting set up with the Google Maps API Using the API The Source Data Lookup the Records Using placement Using ggmap Using Googleway Reviewing Initial Results Tackling Abbreviations Lookup edited names Bringing the data together Assessing the Quality of Geocoding Preprocess the Data and Rerun the Query Duplicated ...

This article provides an in depth introduction to counting patent first filings or priority counts. It is a work in progress chapter for the WIPO Patent Analytics Handbook focusing on advanced patent analytics and builds on the introductory WIPO Manual on Open Source Patent Analytics. Counting first filings is an ...

Introduction Import Directly from the RStudio Menu Reading an Excel file from a URL Tidying column names with janitor Exporting to Excel Round Up Introduction Back in 2015 I wrote a long blog post on importing Excel tables into R. Happily for everyone this is now a lot easier than it ...

In this article we will use RStudio to prepare patent data for visualisation in an infographic using the online software tool infogram. Infographics are a popular way of presenting data in a way that is easy for a reader to understand without reading a long report. Infographics are well suited ...

In this article we provide a quick introduction to the online graphing service Plotly to create graphics for use in patent analysis. Plotly is an online graphing service that allows you to import excel, text and other files for visualisation. It also has API services for R, Python, MATLAB and ...

Introduction In this article we provide a brief introduction to The Lens patent database as a free source of data for patent analytics. The Lens is a patent database based in Australia that describes itself as “an open global cyberinfrastructure to ...

Introduction This article provides an overview of the open source and free software tools that are available for patent analytics. The aim of the chapter is to serve as a quick reference guide for some of the main tools in the tool kit. This article i...

Introduction The Grammar of Graphics Creating a Pie Chart (aaaargh) Introduction This is Part 2 of an article introducing R for patent analytics that focuses on visualising patent data in R using the ggplot2 package. In Part 1 we introduced the basics of wrangling patent data in R using the dplyr package ...