In this second tutorial I am doing with Mauricio Vargas Sepúlveda, we will demonstrate some of the many options the ggplot2 package has for creating and customising area plots. We will use the same dataset from the first post. If you enjoyed this …
I recently needed to install the XLConnect package in R, which has the dependency rJava. Unfortunately rJava is one of those R packages which is a real pain to install and required a bit of fiddling. I'll talk you through how I installed it in OS X …
I teamed up with Mauricio Vargas Sepúlveda about a year ago to create some graphing tutorials in R. On this blog you will find a series of tutorials on how to use the ggplot2 package to create beautiful and informative data visualisations. Each …
This week ends a 4-part series on extracting and analysing JSON-encoded data from reddit, using the subreddit /r/relationships as an example. In the first two entries I set up the environment and collected the data. Last week, I finished by cleaning …
Over the past two weeks (here and here) we have been discussing how to use JSON-encoded data from reddit. So far we have set up our environment and extracted the top 1,000 posts of all time from the subreddit /r/relationships into a pandas Dataframe. …
