Publications by En El Margen - R-English
What the candidates say, analyzing republican debates using R
As most people realize, this is probably one of the most data-rich primary campaigns in history, with hundreds of professional pollsters poring over every data-point trying to understand voter’s intention. So here is another data-rich post to that end. I was glad to discover the University of California at Santa Barbara’s webpage with tons of...
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More republican debate analysis with R
A few weeks late, here is a follow-up analysis using R, of the transcript of the latest Republican primary debate held at Las Vegas, Nevada. Like the previous post, it should be interesting to see some word-clouds and some trends from the front-runners (and of course, Donald Trump). Getting and cleaning the data As in the last post, we’re going...
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South Carolina Republican Debate with R
Continuing with the series analyzing republican debates, the latest in South Carolina confirms a few of the trends i’ve been observing, mainly that: Trump likes to repeat himself (maybe he likes to stick with what has worked so far?). Trump also likes to keep it short: everyone else says more things for longer at a time. The most relevant pers...
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inegiR version 1.2
Version 1.2 of inegiR is now on CRAN so I thought I’d write a few words/vignette about what’s new or different, if at all. By the way, i’m writing in english because more people seem to read r-bloggers than my blog (no surprise there), however the pdf manual and most documentation is still in spanish. Bug fixes Thanks to Diego Valle who rep...
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New nasadata R package
This package intends to provide a hassle-free way to access some of NASA’s open-source API’s to build applications or models. Because the documentation seems inconsistent and there are tons of API’s, I have concentrated my efforts on three which I believe provide the best “bang for my money”. The source package is built around these thr...
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satRday in Monterrey
I recently volunteered to host a satRday event in Monterrey through the email form and was surprised to find out it was shortlisted as an international destination. I’m writing this to convince others to vote for Monterrey. If you’re nearby, like the north of Mexico, the benefits are clear (the next option is currently South Africa!). Overvie...
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Analyzing Mexican votes in the U.N.
Last week I discovered the unvotes package on github so I thought i’d do some number-crunching to see if I find anything interesting. The package provides the voting history of countries in the United Nations General Assembly, along with information such as date, description, and topics for each vote. The author makes it clear to reference the ...
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Analyzing Mexican votes in the U.N.
Last week I discovered the unvotes package on github so I thought i’d do some number-crunching to see if I find anything interesting. The package provides the voting history of countries in the United Nations General Assembly, along with information such as date, description, and topics for each vote. The author makes it clear to reference the ...
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Voting clusters in the U.N.
After some more digging, and a suggestion by @theMexIndian I decided to see more in the depth the unvotes database that I wrote about some weeks ago. This time, amit suggested I do some hierarchical clustering of the votes. So here goes a very dirty first attempt… Data and setup Nothing too impressive here… (for a discussion of the package, s...
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Voting clusters in the U.N.
After some more digging, and a suggestion by @theMexIndian I decided to see more in the depth the unvotes database that I wrote about some weeks ago. This time, amit suggested I do some hierarchical clustering of the votes. So here goes a very dirty first attempt… Data and setup Nothing too impressive here… (for a discussion of the package, s...
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