In April, I started this blog as a way to share what I was learning on my data science journey. As we arrive at the end of 2019, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has read … Continue reading 2019: Year in Review
The job of an SEO is to ensure that websites are optimized and performing well on search engines for target keywords (the words people are using to search online). This involves performing keyword research on lists of target keywords to … Continue reading Keyword Clustering for SEO with R
Democratic Candidates’ Engagement on Twitter Now that I have covered several posts on how to scrape tweets from Twitter, it is time to explore some tweet data. Luckily, there are easy ways to explore tweet data with regular R packages … Continue reading Explore Tweet Data with dplyr and gglpot
R-Ladies NYC Book Club This week I attended my first R-Ladies Book Club event. As I have mentioned in the past, R-Ladies is an organization that promotes gender diversity in the R Programming community through talks, workshops, mentorship and even … Continue reading Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
When working with a data set, the first thing you need to do is organize your data to make it more “tidy”; what is commonly referred to as “tidy data”. Data sets usually have errors in them or need some … Continue reading Tidy Data with tidyr
Part Two: Scraping Tweets from Time Frames and Locations In a previous post, I introduced how to scrape tweets from Twitter. Specifically, I covered how to connect R to the Twitter API and how to extract tweets related to a … Continue reading Scraping Time and Location-Specific Tweets
On Tuesday, I attended an R-Ladies NYC Meetup which included an interesting talk on using parameters for R Markdown reports. This talk was presented by Elizabeth Mauer, a Research Biostatistician at Weill Cornell Medicine. At work, Elizabeth creates a lot … Continue reading Parameterizing R Markdown Reports
A Look at the Distribution of Pizza Menu Prices In this post, I will be covering how to create a violin plot and how to use a violin plot to look at the distribution of a variable, and compare distributions … Continue reading Violin Plots in RStudio
Labor Day Tweets In my last post, I covered how to extract tweets from a specific Twitter account and tweets related to a specific Hashtag. If you haven’t read it yet, read it now. But what can you do with … Continue reading Visualizing Text Data from Tweets in a Word Cloud
Part One: Extracting Account Tweets and Tweets related to a Hashtag In this post, I am going to show you how to extract tweets from twitter! Specifically the tweets related to a certain account (or twitter handle) and tweets related … Continue reading Scraping Tweets from Twitter
