from Wikimedia In my last post I explained why I added a feedback function to googleformr. Since googleformr is an API for collecting data programmatically, I figured I’d leverage it for package development and accessibility. Below I’ll show how ... [Read more...]

from Wikimedia In my last post I explained why I added a feedback function to googleformr. Since googleformr is an API for collecting data programmatically, I figured I’d leverage it for package development and accessibility. Below I’ll show how you can add your own feedback function to your ... [Read more...]

The interwebs has been aflush with interesting data science material. Tweet     Big Five Personality Tests Have Never Been So Fun(ny) Tweet     Gelman on A Beautiful Sentiment Any time Gelman has something to say about graphics and methods, it’s useful. This seems like one of my first memories, though, ... [Read more...]

Help Me, Help You As an R-dev, I’d like to know I’m meeting community need, as well as my own. But after an initial “aha!” moment, you don’t always know how to live up to the full potential of what you’ve started with a package. For ... [Read more...]

The interwebs has been aflush with interesting data science material. Tweet     Big Five Personality Tests Have Never Been So Fun(ny) Tweet     Gelman on A Beautiful Sentiment Any time Gelman has something to say about graphics and method... [Read more...]

Main updates to googleformr have been to remove an internal dependency on magrittr chains in the function construction and to take http status checking outside of the main gformr function and into a check_form_works function. Both changes provide notab... [Read more...]

photo credit: Paul Yoakum This evening I was feeling nostalgic for base R group-bys. Before there was dplyr, there was apply and its cousins. I thought it’d be nice to get out the ol’ photo-album. To start off, the base R proto-ancestor of magr... [Read more...]

After last week’s post with the d3-htmlwidget chordplot showing the network of petition categories, in this post I decided to show the time trend aspect of how the petitions came in. I’m using @hrbrmstr’s htmlwidgets wrapper of a d3 streamgraph to help visualize the macro- and ... [Read more...]

After last week’s post with the d3-htmlwidget chordplot showing the network of petition categories, in this post I decided to show the time trend aspect of how the petitions came in. I’m using @hrbrmstr’s htmlwidgets wrapper of a d3 streamgraph to help visualize the macro- and ... [Read more...]

The OpenData movement has the White House producing and releasing some novel datasets. One of them is the We The People petition site. I learned about this from Proofreader.com’s interesting python work using that data. From the petition site, you can see an interesting gallery of work done ... [Read more...]

The OpenData movement has the White House producing and releasing some novel datasets. One of them is the We The People petition site. I learned about this from Proofreader.com’s interesting python work using that data. From the petition site, you can see an interesting gallery of work done ... [Read more...]

In my last post, I praised the virtues of pacman. I also wanted to indulge of one of the main benefits of working with one of pacman’s devs: Tyler Rinker. Tyler is a geek’s geek, in the best possible way. And one of the best officemates one could ... [Read more...]

In my last post, I praised the virtues of pacman. I also wanted to indulge of one of the main benefits of working with one of pacman’s devs: Tyler Rinker. Tyler is a geek’s geek, in the best possible way. And one of the best officemates one coul... [Read more...]

One of the packages I use all the time now in my interactive R sessions is pacman. It’s more than just a nicer way to load packages, it’s a great way to explore packages, functions, package libraries, versioning, etc. Grab it off cran with install.packages("pacman"). Out ... [Read more...]

One of the packages I use all the time now in my interactive R sessions is pacman. It’s more than just a nicer way to load packages, it’s a great way to explore packages, functions, package libraries, versioning, etc. Grab it off cran with insta... [Read more...]

googleformr is a CRAN package for collecting data programmatically via Google Forms. For collecting data online through user submissions, Google Forms can be a very convenient way to maintain a lot of control. Trying to use Google Sheets or public folders on Dropbox either requires maintain a lot of credentialling, ... [Read more...]

As I said in my last post, googleformr came out of a persistent series of questions: How to collect data remotely? And do it programmatically with R? And safely, easily, and free? Well, now googleformr is up on CRAN. Google Form niceties After getting googleformr on CRAN, I had intended ... [Read more...]

[this transition post is a copy from my Medium account for your comparison.] I’m porting my Medium blog to host on Github using Jekyll at data-steve.github.io. I decided to do it with code and make a package out of it in case others might want to. Reasons ... [Read more...]

googleformr Genesis googleformr came out of a persistent series of questions: How to collect data remotely? And do it programmatically with R? And safely, easily, and free? Google seemed like an obvious choice. So gmail it? Save it as a spreadsheet and then email it? Aggregation is really an issue ... [Read more...]