Tag Archives: rstats

Scraping and Plotting Minneapolis Property Prices | RSelenium, ggmap, ggplots

Posted on June 8, 2016 by screenshotguy

I recall having once scraped data from a Malaysian property site so that I may be able to plot the monthly rental rates for a specific neighborhood in Selangor. This time I thought it might be interesting to try and … Continue reading →

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Swedish Real Estate Prices | rvest, RSelenium, ggplot2

Posted on March 30, 2016 by screenshotguy

Finally got myself an internet connection at home, so i can start with another scraping project. This time i thought it would be nice to try a non-English site that also has coordinate data in each post. Settled on a … Continue reading →

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Navigating & Scraping a Job Site | rvest & RSelenium

Posted on February 13, 2016 by screenshotguy

One of my family members gave me an idea to perhaps try scraping data from a job site, and arranging the data in a way that can then easily be filtered and checked using a spreadsheet. I’m actually a little … Continue reading →

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Manhattan Rental Rates | Plotting Rental and Spatial Data

Posted on January 30, 2016 by screenshotguy

I came across this post written by a James Cheshire that introduces people to the topic of spatial data using R. I don’t know a single thing of using spatial information so i thought i should give it a shot. … Continue reading →

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Plotting Twitter Data

Posted on January 1, 2016 by screenshotguy

I’ve only just come to realize some social media sites allow you to download your entire historical activity in one large data file. I don’t know about other sites, but i’m aware that twitter does give you the option to download … Continue reading →

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Exploring New and Used Car Data in Malaysia

Posted on December 18, 2015 by screenshotguy

I came across a local website where individuals/dealers in Malaysia can post information on used and new cars that they are selling. Why i, in particular, would browse such a site might dumbfound some people (those who personally know me would … Continue reading →

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Web Scraping: The Sequel | Propwall.my

Posted on November 14, 2015 by screenshotguy

Alright. Time to take another shot at web scraping. My attempt at scraping data off iBilik.my left me a little frustrated because of how long it took, and also at how i couldn’t get much information because of all the duplicated … Continue reading →

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Summarizing/Exploring Global Wealth Data

Posted on July 5, 2015 by screenshotguy

Alright. Time to take a crack at another data set, and see if i can hone some of those data cleaning skills that i’ve just learned on Coursera. The data sets I’m using are from the World Bank’s Changing Wealth of … Continue reading →

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Summarizing Development Funds Data

Posted on June 17, 2015 by screenshotguy

Still going through the Getting and Cleaning Data course on Coursera while also enrolling in the Data Manipulation using dplyr course on DataCamp. That said, i guess working on a teeny data exploration task on actual raw data would help in remembering all these new … Continue reading →

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R Functions: Removing NA Columns

Posted on June 12, 2015 by screenshotguy

I realize that this might sound a little nerdy, but making simple and useful R functions can be quite fun. Here are a couple of simple R functions i occasionally use that remove columns with NAs. This function would remove … Continue reading →

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