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
International Travel Behavior to London Greetings from London! After many years of hopes and dreams, I have finally made it to London on vacation with my family. Out of curiosity, I wondered what international travel to London was like, specifically … Continue reading London Tourism
Using Pipes to Simplify Multi-Step Code There is no doubt that we are in the midst of peak vacation season. When planning a trip, people use the web to find flights from on city to another. Unknowingly to vacation planners, … Continue reading A Look at Search Engine Rankings for “Flights” and “Ticket” Keywords
What is a Tibble? You may be familiar with the old data frame in R. Well, tibbles are data frames, but with some tweaks to make it a little more modern. As part of the tidyverse, the tibble is a … Continue reading Tibbles
Before you can work with a data set in RStudio, you will first need to import your data into RStudio. In this post I will show exactly how to read in data sets from typical files you may work with … Continue reading Reading Data from Excel, Text and CSV Files into RStudio
Journey to Data Scientist 