Pulling Twitter Engagements Using the v2 API as Well as rtweet 2022-04-11 This is a follow-up to a short post I wrote on R Access to Twitter’s v2 API. In this post I’ll walk through a few more examples of pulling data from twitter using a mix of Twitter’s v2 API as well as … rjson httr jsonlite dplyr purrr lubridate rtweet tidyr glue rstudioapi fs readr tidyverse
Network Visualizations of Code Collections (funspotr part 3) 2022-03-17 In previous posts and threads I’ve alluded to the potential utility of visualizing the relationships between parsed functions/packages and files as a network plot. […] It can be helpful to … dplyr funspotr readr
Identifying R Functions & Packages in Github Gists (funspotr part 2) 2022-02-07 This post is part two in a series of posts introducing funspotr. See also: […] This post shows how funspotr can also be applied to parse gists: […] By functions or packages … dplyr purrr stringr funspotr readr DT fs rstudioapi
Identifying R Functions & Packages Used in GitHub Repos (funspotr part 1) 2022-01-18 TLDR: funspotr provides helpers for spotting the functions and packages in R and Rmarkdown files and associated github repositories. See Examples for catalogues of the functions/packages used in posts … dplyr funspotr yaml purrr fs readr here
Predicting NBA Playoff Berths: FiveThirtyEight vs Betting Markets 2021-12-17 TLDR: FiveThirtyEight’s forecasts of NBA playoff berths seem to hold-up OK against betting markets. If you trust them, you should consider betting against the Lakers right now. In The Virtues and … stringr dplyr glue gt rvest janitor lubridate purrr tidyr readr fs broom
Macros in the Shell: Integrating That Spreadsheet From Finance Into a Data Pipeline 2021-05-10 There is many a data science meme degrading excel: (Google Sheets seems to have escaped most of the memes here.) While I no longer use it regularly for the purposes of analysis, I will always have a … dplyr digest mvtnorm purrr readr glue readxl here
A National Popular Vote Weighted by the Electoral College 2020-09-11 TLDR: In this post I discuss using a national popular vote weighted by the electoral college to elect the president. This approach would empower voters by expanding political influence outside of … pins readr dplyr janitor tidyr forcats ggplot
