Publications by En El Margen - R-English
New banxicoR package
The banxicoR package is now available on CRAN. Much like inegiR this package aims to bring official Mexican data easily into R, in this case by scrapping iqy calls to the SIE (Sistema de Información Económica) webservice of the Bank of Mexico. Introduction The major difference with inegiR is that the Bank of Mexico does not have an API, so this...
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New banxicoR package
The banxicoR package is now available on CRAN. Much like inegiR this package aims to bring official Mexican data easily into R, in this case by scrapping iqy calls to the SIE (Sistema de Información Económica) webservice of the Bank of Mexico. Introduction The major difference with inegiR is that the Bank of Mexico does not have an API, so this...
2181 sym R (2195 sym/4 pcs) 2 img
When Trump visits… tweets from his trip to Mexico
I’m sure many of my fellow Mexicans will remember the historically ill-advised (to say the least) decision by our President to invite Donald Trump for a meeting. Talking to some fellow colleagues, we couldn’t help but notice that maybe in another era this decision would have been good policy. The problem, some concluded, was the influence of ...
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When Trump visits… tweets from his trip to Mexico
I’m sure many of my fellow Mexicans will remember the historically ill-advised (to say the least) decision by our President to invite Donald Trump for a meeting. Talking to some fellow colleagues, we couldn’t help but notice that maybe in another era this decision would have been good policy. The problem, some concluded, was the influence of ...
2907 sym R (4120 sym/8 pcs) 12 img 1 tbl
Shiny App for MBA Interviews
A couple of weeks ago I attended some interviews as part of my process for admission into an MBA program. While most candidates would pore over the possible questions and then try to teach them to a third party to help them with a mock interview, I decided to expedite the process by building a shiny app in R. In the name of helping anyone out the...
2120 sym R (4752 sym/3 pcs)
Shiny App for MBA Interviews
A couple of weeks ago I attended some interviews as part of my process for admission into an MBA program. While most candidates would pore over the possible questions and then try to teach them to a third party to help them with a mock interview, I decided to expedite the process by building a shiny app in R. In the name of helping anyone out the...
2120 sym R (4752 sym/3 pcs)
NAFTA trade dashboard
Tradewatch is a dashboard, written in R using the flexdashboard framework. Visualizations are made possible thanks to highcharter and other packages. The main purpose of the dashboard is to monitor trade, mostly from the Mexican perspective, of goods and commodities with countries that are in NAFTA. In the age of fake news and policy-by-twitter,...
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NAFTA trade dashboard
Tradewatch is a dashboard, written in R using the flexdashboard framework. Visualizations are made possible thanks to highcharter and other packages. The main purpose of the dashboard is to monitor trade, mostly from the Mexican perspective, of goods and commodities with countries that are in NAFTA. In the age of fake news and policy-by-twitter,...
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conapomx data package
I have created a new R data package to help users obtain national population statistics of Mexico. The conapomx package contains the mxpopulation data set, which is a tidy data.frame containing population estimates from the CONAPO (National Population Commission) official agency. The estimates are divided by age groups, gender, municipality and y...
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conapomx data package
I have created a new data package for R to help users obtain national population statistics of Mexico. The conapomx package contains the mxpopulation data set, which is a tidy data.frame containing population estimates from the CONAPO (National Population Commission) official agency. The estimates are divided by age groups, gender, municipality a...
994 sym R (258 sym/2 pcs) 2 tbl