Today Noam Ross’ tweet about his experience with the new R Notebooks from RStudio got me excited. Can not find a GIF to properly convey the joy + wreckage
No matter what your domain of interest or expertise, the internet is a treasure trove of useful data that comes in many shapes, forms, and sizes, from beautifully documented fast APIs to data that need to be scraped from deep inside of 1990s html pages. In this 3 hour tutorial you will learn how to programmatically read in various types of web data from experts in the field (Founders of the rOpenSci project and the training lead of RStudio). By the end of the tutorial you will have a basic idea of how to wrap an R package around a standard API, extract common non-standard data formats, and scrape data into tidy data frames from web pages.
Dieses Buch soll als Einführung und Nachschlagewerk für die Statistik-Software GNU R (kurz R) dienen. R beruht auf der statistischen Programmiersprache S.
This all began with an introductory presentation about social network analysis to a group of medical students. What better way to grab their attention than with attractive, fake doctors having sex on television? Naturally this led to the dense network … Continue reading →
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