R case studies

RStudio is an interface that assists your reproducible workflows. Explore how the Tidyverse environment is more than statistics. These hands-on concepts explore practical features of data gathering and data manipulation. Go beyond the rudimentary to expand your ideas of analysis.

In the spring of 2021, we explored the following as case studies…

Web Scraping aka screen scraping with library(rvest)

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Slides with library(xaringan) and R markdown

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Sentiment analysis with library(tidytext)

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Twitter data with library(rtweet)

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Public datasets and BigQuery with library(c("dplyr", "DBI", "bigrquery"))

aka using dplyr verbs to query remote SQL databases

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Image Credits Jinho Jung

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