Publications by Ari Lamstein
Slides from my Workshop: “Mapping Open Data in R”
On May 17 I had the pleasure of running a workshop at the Berkeley R Meetup. The workshop was titled “Mapping Open Data in R”, and I’ve had a few requests for the slides. You can see them below. The slides have code on them. If you would like to download a file with the code, enter your email address below and I’ll send it to you. Get t...
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Jeff Meisel’s Workshop @ ODSC
Today I’d like to draw attention to a workshop that Jeffrey Meisel gave at the Open Data Science Conference East (ODSC East) in Boston last weekend. Jeff is the Chief Marketing Officer of the US Census Bureau, and for a few months we’ve been talking about how to improve communication between the Census Bureau and the R community. You can see...
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Remote Pair Programming in R
Recently I’ve been doing a lot of remote pair programming with clients. A few people have asked how this works. Rather than try to explain it, I recorded one of my sessions with a client last week, and you can watch it below: The actual session was about an hour long, though I edited it down to about 10 minutes here. If you are interested in h...
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New Facebook Group: “R, Maps and Open Data”
Today I am happy to announce a new Facebook group: R, Maps and Open Data. If you like this blog, then you should join this group! It’s free to join. This is my first time creating a Facebook group, and I am viewing it as both an experiment and an outgrowth of this blog. Here are some things I hope to achieve with the group: Have other people...
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Case Study: Customized R Training and a “Day 1” Curriculum
Earlier this year I had the honor of training the research division of a financial services firm in R. I’ve been meaning to write a case study on this project for a while, but have put it off due to the size and complexity of the engagement. In this post I’ll limit myself to talking about two aspects of the engagement: the Project Assessment...
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Announcing the R Shapefile Contest
Today I am happy to announce the R Shapefile Contest. The goal of the contest is to encourage and promote high quality work at the intersection of R and GIS (Geographic Information Systems). The winner of the contest will: Get featured prominently on my blog Get a free copy of my course Mapmaking in R with Choroplethr (a $99 value) Get a free c...
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Update on the R Shapefile Contest
This is a reminder that the R Shapefile Contest ends this Friday, July 29! We already have four incredible entries: Kent Johnson looked at the Cambridge Outdoor Lighting Ordinance. James B. Elsner, Thomas H. Jagger, and Tyler Fricker studied the Long-Term View of Tornado Risk. Robby Powell explored Airport Effects on U.S. County Unemployment...
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Results from the R Shapefile Contest!
Today I am happy to announce the results from the R Shapefile Contest. The contest was an incredible success – there were 19 entries that covered a range of topics. Each entry was well thought out, and I encourage you to read each of them. Here are the entries, in order of submission: Bonus: Get all the entries as a PDF!Click Here Title Author...
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Want to learn how to make maps in R?
Once upon a time I wrote an open source package that makes it easy to create choropleth maps in R. I called the package choroplethr. Then I created a free email course to teach people how to use the software. That course is called Learn to Map Census Data in R, and it is the most popular thing that I’ve ever published. People w...
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Monetizing R Portfolios
I recently ran an office hours on the topic of building R Portfolios. The conversation was fascinating to me. One issue that came up was monetization. Basically, creating an R Portfolio is a ton of work. How can you make any money out of it? I’m sure that there are lots of possibilities. But here are the two ways that came up. My Experience W...
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