If you followed along with my analysis of the top Christmas movies according to the MovieLens 10M dataset, you would remember I obtained the list of Christmas movies by scraping this page. I am fairly new to web scraping and this is one of my first …
Like I've said in a previous post I'm not a huge fan of crowds, so I tend to spend my New Year's Eve at home. That's totally as fun as going out, right? For those of you with the patience to make your way into the city, I've put together a New Year's …
It has been another scorching Christmas season in Melbourne, so I have been hiding in the aircon for the last week catching up on my holiday movie list. I also recently (serendipitously) discovered the wonderful MovieLens datasets and have been …
Part of the series Plotting in R With Ggplot2 1. Line plots in ggplot2 2. Area plots in ggplot2 3. Bar plots in ggplot2 4. Stacked bar plots in ggplot2 5. Scatterplots in ggplot2 6. Weighted scatterplots in ggplot2 7. Histograms in ggplot2 8. …
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 …
