Practical Disregard

I like solving problems and answering questions...

#ELGL19 On Twitter: A Brief Synthesis

May 24, 2019

The Boring Bits library(tidyverse) library(lubridate) library(tidytext) library(kableExtra) tweets <- read_rds("data/tweets.rds") %>% as_tibble() f <- function(time) { x <- time hour(x) <- hour(x)-4 return(x) } Read More...

#TidyTuesday Week 50 Plot Replicas

December 12, 2019

Documenation Plots are replicated based on Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines by Tynan DeBold and Dov Friedman. Read More...

COVID Crime Impacts

May 2, 2020

Curiosity I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what’s different now. When the lockdown first started, I couldn’t stop thinking about how government, specifically local government, was going to have to come up with solutions to new problems on the fly and try as much as possible to limit negative unintended consequences. Read More...

City of Raleigh Budget Sentiment Analysis

April 29, 2018

Package Import Load necessary packages and set one global option. library(tidyverse) library(pdftools) library(tidytext) library(knitr) library(kableExtra) Retrieve File Download the file from the City of Raleigh website, read that file in as a character vector, and delete the downloaded file from the directory. Read More...

I Like It When You Call Me Large SpatialPolygonsDataFrame

March 19, 2019

Welcome to the wonderful world of R-Spatial! I really enjoy playing around with spatial data in R and for some reason find it much easier than ArcGIS (#sorrynotsorry Esri). Read More...