You know those “I am not a robot” confirmation boxes? They always get in the way, especially when I’m trying to grab large amounts of information from google searches. Previously, I primarily scraped web content through rvest. Fast and pretty reliable, but I would often come to a wall. Then...
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A glimpse of the Google Maps API in R
Let’s look at the Google Maps API and see how we can put it to use through R!
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Understanding what regression does
Sometimes we don’t care to see underneath the hood of a one-line regression formula. Yet, it is incredibly powerful understand the reasons for why you set variables and tune parameters for analysis; many statistical assumptions and mathematics are glazed over by just typing out the code.
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More Scraping + Crosstalk
Recently, I had become curious of what more I could do with the Rvest package. I knew that I could rip elements and tables from off of websites, but I wanted to see what else I could do. I know that there are better scraping techniques, but I wanted to...
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Too much data, what do I do? (Stepwise)
What do you do when you have too many variables, you don’t know what to do? Which ones are the most important? How many is too much, where it impedes your model’s ability to perform a regression?
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