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The RDSTK Presentation at Denver R Users Group

Last night I presented a talk at the DRUG introducing the R wrapper for the Data Science Toolkit.  Lots of good questions, good forking, and good beer afterwards at Freshcraft.  The slides are given below.

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Scrapin’ with Python

Here is the code that I used for the previous post.  A few notes: I know a little about Python, but I’m in no means a python programmer. I’ve attempted to use BeautifulSoup once prior to this project.  There must … Continue reading

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A Whole New World of Data

The word twitter is about as ubiquitous as health-care reform in today’s media.  Not everybody knows what twitter is or what you can do with so-called “tweets”, but that does not stop them from posting their thoughts on Michael Jackson’s … Continue reading

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