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Walking through what’s left of the heart of the Jungle. The camp ‘Main St’ pic.twitter.com/8tYau41NST
— Gavin Lee (@GavinLeeBBC) October 26, 2016
With the Calais Jungle being broken up and most of the migrants there sent elsewhere in France, it seems a good time to return to the topic of asylum (although there is a difference between asylum and migration).
You can find me here on Google+, with a slightly smaller profile pic to fit in with Google’s circular profile pictures. The last time I used Google+ was when I was training to be a journalist about four years ago, when it was a bit of a ghost town in terms of UK journalism. My … Read More “R for Journalists Is Now on Google+” »
The last post came in for some criticism on /r/rstats, in particular from /u/fang_xianfu, who argued it merely showed that London has more people than the rest of the country.
In our previous two–part series we looked at the melt function from the reshape2 package. The creator of the package, Hadley Wickham, pointed me towards tidyr and the gather function as a better alternative instead.
I thought I’d start a weekly round-up of good uses of R I’ve seen elsewhere. We’ll start with four links this Friday: ComputerWorld’s R resources Cheat Sheet Longhow Lam’s use of scraping to show how cars lose value after you begin to rack up the miles Patrick Scott’s analysis of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s choices of words in … Read More “Seen Elsewhere: 21st October 2016” »
I took this free course as my first real introduction to the R programming language.
I would highly recommend it for any beginner who wants a comprehensive overview of R.
Before we begin: Hadley Wickham, the reshape2 package creator, pointed me in the direction of the tidyr package for melting data. I’ll take a look at it after this post. As promised from before, a look at @hadleywickham‘s reshape2 package and Home Office drugs data #ddj #rstats https://t.co/Q46eUijsaG — R For Journalists (@rforjournalists) October 18, … Read More “Melting Drugs Data: Part Two” »
Every year the Home Office, which is responsible for drugs policy, carries out an anonymous survey into use of illegal drugs in England and Wales.
