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I don’t know about y’all, but I need a break this summer. RUG is going to take a break as well and will resume in the fall. I thought I had one more meeting in me, but some last-minute lab problems have made it too difficult to host a last meeting. In light of everything, this year has been a fun one with y’all! I truly appreciate…[Read more]

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Yet again, RUG has snuck up on me. It’s that kind of year. Today (1 pm-2:30 pm) we’re trucking along with the text analysis theme, and doing some data visualization! We’re going to learn how to make a word cloud, then if we have time we’ll explore some other ways to visualize your text data. I only have a small amount of experience…[Read more]

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Wow, Friday really snuck up on me! Today we’re continuing down the text analysis road. We’re going to learn how to wrangle unstructured text into something you can analyze! We’ll be diving into the stringr package for string manipulation and use some other tidyverse package wizardry to get a tidy data set! If we have time, we can go…[Read more]

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I hope everyone has had a restful spring break! I’m stoked to jump back on the text analysis bandwagon this week. We’re going to take the text we scraped off the web last meeting and learn how to format it into a tidy data frame. For those who didn’t attend my workshop in March, we’re pretty much doing that! If you weren’t able to…[Read more]

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It turns out that our next scheduled RUG meeting falls during spring break! I’m taking full advantage of the break, so no RUG next Friday. Instead, let’s meet the next Friday, 04/09. I’ll send out another email that week with more details!

Also, for those RUG members who couldn’t make it to my Intro to Text Analysis in R workshop,…[Read more]

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RUG is back on! This week we’re starting a series on web scraping and text analysis in R. This week’s theme will be web scraping, where we  will learn the basics of the rvest package (similar to Beautiful Soup for python). In addition, Yuxiao is leading a workshop on predictive modeling in R right after the workshop on Friday, so we…[Read more]

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I hope everyone is doing well! The semester is fully underway and I know I’m excited to meet again to talk about R. The schedule for this semester is the same as last semester, with meetings from 1pm to 2:30pm every other Friday. See the GCDI events calendar for all of our scheduled meetings. One fun change this year is that the Pytho…[Read more]

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RUG is back for the semester! This Friday (2/19) from 1pm-2:30pm EST, we’re having a special meeting for GC Digital Research Institute participants, R beginners, and those who are interested in R, but haven’t used it before. Yuxiao and Connor will be here to give an overview of what RUG is, answer any questions DRI participants may…[Read more]

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First, details: Friday, Dec. 4, 1-2:30 PM. The Zoom link is below my signature.

We’re entering the final stretch of the semester, and I for one am ready for a break. We’re going to keep things light for the last few RUG meetings of the semester. The priority will be for y’all to bring anything you want to discuss or troubleshoot to…[Read more]

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First, meeting details: Today, Nov 20th, 1 PM to 2:30 PM. Zoom link at the bottom.

Today, we’re going to explore spatial patterns in COVID data! I know I promised election data, but unfortunately since all of the voting results still aren’t official, the data isn’t available for free. This should still be fun!

Today’s meeting style…[Read more]

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Given the election craziness, I’m sure everyone is exhausted and screen-tired. I know I am. In lieu of a Zoom meeting, I’m going to hang out on the RUG  Slack today from 1-2:30 pm. I’ll take anyone’s R questions and will be available to hop on Zoom for any discussion that’s easier over video. Just send me a message and I’ll send you…[Read more]

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RUG is happening tomorrow from 1 pm to 2:30 pm! We’re going to do a bit of interactive mapping using a tutorial I made a while back:

https://connor-french.com/post/leaflet-tutorial/

In addition, I’ll field questions about mapping, GIS in R, and the tutorial I sent out two weeks ago. Looking forward to seeing…[Read more]