Voting Networks in the Danish Parliament
(This article was first published on The PolStat R Feed, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) One of my Christmas presents was the book Beautiful Visualization. Chapter 8 by Andrew Odewahn is a very...
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(This article was first published on The PolStat R Feed, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) In this post I promised to show how I use Python with the BeautifulSoup and Mechanize modules to scrape...
View ArticleScraping R-bloggers with Python – Part 2
(This article was first published on The PolStat R Feed, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) In my previous post I showed how to write a small simple python script to download the pages of...
View ArticleAnalyzing R-bloggers
(This article was first published on The PolStat R Feed, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) In the last two posts we saw how to download posts from R-bloggers, and then extract the title, author...
View ArticleCreating LaTeX Tables from Zelig and Statnet objects
(This article was first published on The PolStat R Feed, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) As a PhD student that uses quantitative methods a lot, one annoying part of my job is to type up my...
View ArticleKnitr is Awesome!
(This article was first published on The PolStat R Feed, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I love TikZ in LaTeX and I use it exclusively when writing figures for my papers. I also use the...
View ArticleText Mining and The Danish Immigration Debate
(This article was first published on The PolStat R Feed, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I have for a while now wanted to learn how to do text mining in R. I have played a bit around with the tm...
View ArticleTrust in the EU and National Parliaments
(This article was first published on The PolStat R Feed, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers) I have been playing around with some data from Eurobarometer, to support some arguments for a small...
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