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Over the past few years we have seen Google Trends becoming quite ubiquitous in politics. Pundits have used Google seach trends as …
6 min read R

As the primaries approach, I am experiencing a mix of angst, FOMO, and excitement. One of my largest concerns is that progressive …
20 min read R

trendyy is a package for querying Google Trends. It is build around Philippe Massicotte’s package gtrendsR which accesses this data …
4 min read R

Introducing genius You want to start analysing song lyrics, where do you go? There have been music information retrieval papers written …
7 min read R

get started here Since I created genius, I’ve wanted to make a version for python. But frankly, that’s a daunting task for me seeing as …
8 min read R, Docker, Python

On October 6, 2018, the US Senate voted 50–48 in favor of the appointment of Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. This led many pundits …
34 min read politics

Originally posted via Boston Area Research Initiative The nation heaved a sigh of relief as President Trump signed a bill on Friday, …
3 min read politics

This post will go over extracting feature (variable) importance and creating a function for creating a ggplot object for it. I will …
3 min read R, machine learning

The Jargon The Generic Method The Default Method sf method tbl_graph method Review (tl;dr) Lately I have been doing more of my …
16 min read R, tutorial

Before the United States created the Constitution, something called the Articles of Confederation defined what the US Government would …
4 min read letters