(If you haven’t read part I, you can find it here.) Alright, this is a long overdue post: back in October, I promised a part II to show how to pull data from the web via an API. Well, better late than never! Web APIs There is so much ...

In this short post, I am going to introduce you to web scraping in R using the rvest package. In another post (part II), I’ll show you maybe the most popular method for pulling data from the web: using a web API. httr will help us send HTTP requests...

The New York Times has produced some really great maps and plots in its efforts to track the coronavirus in the U.S. One plot in particular that caught my attention is the histogram (actually more like a bar plot) of new cases with a 7-day average l...

Because I often work with categorical data, I find myself making lots of quick, sorted counts of variables in a dataset. I find that this is a really common technique to get to know a dataset you’re working with; I’ve also noticed David Robinson do it often in ...