https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2013/03/book-review-r-in-action-by-robert-i-kabacoff/ Extract tables from PDFs and scrape the web Thu, 14 Jul 2016 16:12:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2013/03/book-review-r-in-action-by-robert-i-kabacoff/#comment-881 Wed, 26 Jun 2013 19:14:14 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758218257#comment-881 […] R in Action by Robert I. Kabacoff; […]

]]> https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2013/03/book-review-r-in-action-by-robert-i-kabacoff/#comment-880 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:14:37 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758218257#comment-880 […] Ian tells us, R is good for visualisations. And it turns out it has an installable RSQLite package that can load R dataframes from a sqlite […]

]]> https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2013/03/book-review-r-in-action-by-robert-i-kabacoff/#comment-879 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:46:26 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758218257#comment-879 Here you go – my first gist!
https://gist.github.com/IanHopkinson/5318354

]]> https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2013/03/book-review-r-in-action-by-robert-i-kabacoff/#comment-878 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 09:37:16 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758218257#comment-878 Any chance of putting it into a Gist, or something public, online?

]]> https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2013/03/book-review-r-in-action-by-robert-i-kabacoff/#comment-877 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:03:54 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758218257#comment-877 It’s in this view here:
http://x.scraperwiki.com/dataset/bdaw7xa/view/hipbzxi
plus loads of other stuff

]]> https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2013/03/book-review-r-in-action-by-robert-i-kabacoff/#comment-876 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:53:44 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758218257#comment-876 Where’s your dozen lines of code?

]]> https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2013/03/book-review-r-in-action-by-robert-i-kabacoff/#comment-875 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 05:19:16 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758218257#comment-875 Yes, that’s right. Francis didn’t say what your prize would be before he went off on holiday!

]]> https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2013/03/book-review-r-in-action-by-robert-i-kabacoff/#comment-874 Thu, 28 Mar 2013 06:52:44 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758218257#comment-874 Quoting from their docs: “Every account can follow 2,000 users total. Once you’ve followed 2,000 users, there are limits to the number of additional users you can follow. This number is different for each account and is based on your ratio of followers to following; this ratio is not published.” I guess we can safely conclude the secret ratio is not far from 1.

]]> https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2013/03/book-review-r-in-action-by-robert-i-kabacoff/#comment-873 Thu, 28 Mar 2013 03:13:56 +0000 http://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758218257#comment-873 Prize to first person to comment explaining why there’s nobody at the top left of that Twitter diagram, and what the straight line boundary coming out from 2000 following is!

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