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Recently, I have been following the development and release of Kyle Walker’s tidycensus package. I have been filled with amazement, delight, and well, perhaps another feeling… There should be a word for “the regret felt when an R ?, which would have saved untold hours of your life, is released”… #... [Read more...]

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Like I mentioned in my last blog post, I am contributing to a session at userR 2017 this coming July that will focus on discovering and learning about R packages. This is an increasingly important issue for R users as we all decide which of the 10,000+... [Read more...]

I am one of the organizers for a session at userR 2017 this coming July that will focus on discovering and learning about R packages. How do R users find packages that meet their needs? Can we make this process easier? As somebody who is relatively new... [Read more...]

Note: Cross-posted with the Stack Overflow blog. Check out the code for this analysis on Kaggle. For me, the weekends are mostly about spending time with my family, reading for leisure, and working on the open-source projects I am involved in. These we... [Read more...]

Note: Cross-posted with the Stack Overflow blog The 2017 Stack Overflow Developer Survey opened last week, and we on the Data Team are looking forward to analyzing the survey results to better understand our developer community. I am particularly interested in women in tech, for probably obvious reasons, and recently I ... [Read more...]

I spoke on approaching text mining tasks using tidy data principles at rstudio::conf yesterday. I was so happy to have the opportunity to speak and the conference has been a great experience. If you want to catch up on what has been going on at rstudio::conf, Karl Broman ... [Read more...]

It’s been about a month since the U.S. presidential election, with Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton coming as a surprise to most. Reddit user Jason Baumgartner collected and published every submission and comment posted to Reddit on the day of (and a bit surrounding) the U.... [Read more...]

In learning more about text mining over the past several months, one aspect of text that I’ve been interested in is readability. A text’s readability measures how hard or easy it is for a reader to read and understand what a text is saying; it depe... [Read more...]