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How to Perform Sentiment Analysis on Tweets

Posted on December 23, 2019December 22, 2020 By Rob
How to Perform Sentiment Analysis on Tweets
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Investigate the tone of tweets from Twitter using the API.

Machine Learning in R: Using nearest neighbours to work out Premier League footballers’ positions

Posted on November 23, 2019December 22, 2020 By Rob
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A dive into machine learning in R

How to track your fantasy football league using R

Posted on November 12, 2019December 22, 2020 By Rob
How to track your fantasy football league using R
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Track the joy and the pain of FPL using R.

Which Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur players follow each other on Twitter?

Posted on November 9, 2019December 22, 2020 By Rob
Which Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur players follow each other on Twitter?
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Do any of these footballing rivals follow each other on social media?

Using Natural Language Processing to discover themes in First World War poetry

Posted on November 8, 2019December 22, 2020 By Rob
Using Natural Language Processing to discover themes in First World War poetry
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Analysing how the themes of WW1 poetry change as the war wore on.

Comparing the most popular baby names in Britain and America

Posted on November 2, 2019December 22, 2020 By Rob
Comparing the most popular baby names in Britain and America
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Comparing what Americans and Brits call their babies.

How to make a UK Local Authority choropleth map in R

Posted on October 20, 2019May 4, 2022 By Rob
How to make a UK Local Authority choropleth map in R
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Particularly useful in the time of COVID-19 – how visualise different local rates around the UK.

SQL and R: Joins and Merges

Posted on April 10, 2018December 22, 2020 By Rob
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How to do joins and merges in SQL and their R equivalents.

Five More Common SQL Commands and Their R Equivalents

Posted on April 7, 2018December 22, 2020 By Rob
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Simple commands in SQL and their R equivalents.

Five Common SQL Commands and their R equivalents

Posted on March 30, 2018April 4, 2018 By Rob
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I’ve been taking a look at SQL lately and how it relates to R. SQL is a programming language to manipulate data in databases. Its syntax is different from R. It resembles standard English with clauses more so than R does. In this post I’m going to look at some simple SQL commands and their … Read More “Five Common SQL Commands and their R equivalents” »

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