Sharon Machlis

Practical R for Mass Communication and Journalism (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

People working in the media deal with data constantly. Journalists who are interested in improving their data skills will find this book useful. The book will concentrate on teaching R and will not go into statistical details. Data sets and projects chosen for the book are especially important in the journalism market.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429681752
• Artikelnr.: 54819978

Autorenporträt

Sharon Machlis is the author of Computerworld'sBeginner's Guide to R, host of InfoWorld'sDo More With R video screencast series, admin for the R for Journalists Google Group, and is well known among Twitter users who follow the #rstats hashtag. She is Director of Editorial Data and Analytics at IDG Communications (parent company of Computerworld, InfoWorld, PC World and Macworld, among others) and a frequent speaker at data journalism and R conferences.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Get Started With R in a Few Easy Steps. See How Much You Can
Do in a Few Lines of Code. Import data into R. Project: Snowfall data;
Skill: Basic data exploration. Project: Raw Snowfall data; Skill: Reshape
data. Project: Airport Delays by Airline; Skill: Analyze data by groups.
Map Median: Household Income; Skills: Simple mapping, saving graphics.
Population Density and Election Results: Is There a Relationship?; Skills:
Joining tables, correlations, basic linear regression. Easily Reproducible
Reports With R Markdown; Skills: Generate a Word doc or HTML file from an R
script.