Publications by Marco Pasin
Global Distribution of Breast Cancer: some initial considerations
As mentioned on a previous post, I am interested in analysing if people’s ‘unhealthy’ lifestyle is associated to new cases of cancer diagnosed globally. The outcome variable I want to explore (at least for now), is the number of new cases of breast cancer in 100,000 female residents. I have this data for 173 countries from 2002...
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Plotting data over a map with R
After searching for a few hours on the web, I’ve been able to get my R code working and plot breast cancer data on a world map. It might not the best looking map possible (R graphics is incredible!), but I am happy with that for now.To produce the map I used the “maps” package available through CRAN repository. And of course I n...
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My first R Shiny Web Application using breast cancer data
I love the idea of making non-R users playing with my datasets. Thanks to R Shiny package this is is now possible and I am going to post here my code for a simple web application.But first a few lines about Shiny package and my dataset. Okay…if you are in a hurry and want to go straight to check my app, here is the link http://spark...
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Performing ANOVA Test in R: Results and Interpretation
When testing an hypothesis with a categorical explanatory variable and a quantitative response variable, the tool normally used in statistics is Analysis of Variances, also called ANOVA.In this post I am performing an ANOVA test using the R programming language, to a dataset of breast cancer new cases across continents.The objective of the ANOVA ...
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All Data Journalism Graduates in a Map
This week I got my certificate of completion from the course “Doing Journalism with Data: First Steps, Skills and Tools“(if you like to know more about data journalism check out my post “3 Great Examples of Data Journalism Stories“). I enjoyed the course a lot, and I am proud of being one of the 1250 people who successfully completed th...
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Google Analytics Dashboards with R & Shiny
One of the key activities of any web or digital analyst is to design and create dashboards. The main objective of a web analytics dashboard is to display the current status of your key web metrics and arrange them on a single view, so that information can be monitored at a glance. Great dashboards should allow you/your boss or client to take acti...
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R Statistics for Digital Analytics: 8 Blogs you should Follow
Are you interested in using R for your digital analytics projects? Do you need to perform prediction modelling and visualizations on your digital data and Excel can´t just do the job as you wanted?Or, you simply have no idea how R could help you in your digital analytics problems and you would like to see some real working examples first?Well, t...
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R Stats + Digital Analytics: 8 Blogs you should Follow
Are you interested in using R for your digital analytics projects? Do you need to perform prediction modelling and visualizations on your digital data and Excel can´t just do the job as you wanted?Or, you simply have no idea how R could help you in your digital analytics problems and you would like to see some real working examples first?Well, t...
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Query Multiple Google Analytics View IDs with R
Extracting Google Analytics data from one website is pretty easy, and there are several options to do it quickly. But what if you need to extract data from multiple websites or, to be more precise, from multiple Views? And perhaps you also need to summarize it within a single data frame?Not long ago I was working on a reporting project, where the...
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Playing with R, Shiny Dashboard and Google Analytics Data
In this post, I want to share some examples of data visualization I was playing with recently. Like in many other occasions, my field of application is digital analytics data. Precisely, data from… <> Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: analytics for fun. R-bloggers.com ...
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