After a lot of slacking around, I finally got to finishing the upgraded version of the inegiR package on CRAN. This version combines quite a few changes that I will explain further in this post. New language The biggest change upfront is the migration to english in both function names ... [Read more...]

I have created a new data package for R to help users obtain national population statistics of Mexico. The conapomx package contains the mxpopulation data set, which is a tidy data.frame containing population estimates from the CONAPO (National Population Commission) official agency. The estimates are divided by age groups, ... [Read more...]

I have created a new data package for R to help users obtain national population statistics of Mexico. The conapomx package contains the mxpopulation data set, which is a tidy data.frame containing population estimates from the CONAPO (National Population Commission) official agency. The estimates are divided by age groups, ... [Read more...]

I have created a new R data package to help users obtain national population statistics of Mexico. The conapomx package contains the mxpopulation data set, which is a tidy data.frame containing population estimates from the CONAPO (National Population Commission) official agency. The estimates are divided by age groups, gender, ... [Read more...]

Tradewatch is a dashboard, written in R using the flexdashboard framework. Visualizations are made possible thanks to highcharter and other packages. The main purpose of the dashboard is to monitor trade, mostly from the Mexican perspective, of goods... [Read more...]

Tradewatch is a dashboard, written in R using the flexdashboard framework. Visualizations are made possible thanks to highcharter and other packages. The main purpose of the dashboard is to monitor trade, mostly from the Mexican perspective, of goods... [Read more...]

A couple of weeks ago I attended some interviews as part of my process for admission into an MBA program. While most candidates would pore over the possible questions and then try to teach them to a third party to help them with a mock interview, I decided to expedite ... [Read more...]

A couple of weeks ago I attended some interviews as part of my process for admission into an MBA program. While most candidates would pore over the possible questions and then try to teach them to a third party to help them with a mock interview, I decided to expedite ... [Read more...]

I’m sure many of my fellow Mexicans will remember the historically ill-advised (to say the least) decision by our President to invite Donald Trump for a meeting. Talking to some fellow colleagues, we couldn’t help but notice that maybe in another era this decision would have been good ... [Read more...]

I’m sure many of my fellow Mexicans will remember the historically ill-advised (to say the least) decision by our President to invite Donald Trump for a meeting. Talking to some fellow colleagues, we couldn’t help but notice that maybe in another era this decision would have been good ... [Read more...]

The banxicoR package is now available on CRAN. Much like inegiR this package aims to bring official Mexican data easily into R, in this case by scrapping iqy calls to the SIE (Sistema de Información Económica) webservice of the Bank of Mexico. Introduction The major difference with inegiR ... [Read more...]

The banxicoR package is now available on CRAN. Much like inegiR this package aims to bring official Mexican data easily into R, in this case by scrapping iqy calls to the SIE (Sistema de Información Económica) webservice of the Bank of Mexico. Introduction The major difference with inegiR ... [Read more...]

After some more digging, and a suggestion by @theMexIndian I decided to see more in the depth the unvotes database that I wrote about some weeks ago. This time, amit suggested I do some hierarchical clustering of the votes. So here goes a very dirty first attempt… Data and setup ... [Read more...]

After some more digging, and a suggestion by @theMexIndian I decided to see more in the depth the unvotes database that I wrote about some weeks ago. This time, amit suggested I do some hierarchical clustering of the votes. So here goes a very dirty first attempt… Data and setup ... [Read more...]

Last week I discovered the unvotes package on github so I thought i’d do some number-crunching to see if I find anything interesting. The package provides the voting history of countries in the United Nations General Assembly, along with information such as date, description, and topics for each vote. ... [Read more...]

Last week I discovered the unvotes package on github so I thought i’d do some number-crunching to see if I find anything interesting. The package provides the voting history of countries in the United Nations General Assembly, along with information such as date, description, and topics for each vote. ... [Read more...]

I recently volunteered to host a satRday event in Monterrey through the email form and was surprised to find out it was shortlisted as an international destination. I’m writing this to convince others to vote for Monterrey. If you’re nearby, like the north of Mexico, the benefits are ... [Read more...]

This package intends to provide a hassle-free way to access some of NASA’s open-source API’s to build applications or models. Because the documentation seems inconsistent and there are tons of API’s, I have concentrated my efforts on three which I believe provide the best “bang for my ... [Read more...]

Version 1.2 of inegiR is now on CRAN so I thought I’d write a few words/vignette about what’s new or different, if at all. By the way, i’m writing in english because more people seem to read r-bloggers than my blog (no surprise there), however the pdf ... [Read more...]

Continuing with the series analyzing republican debates, the latest in South Carolina confirms a few of the trends i’ve been observing, mainly that: Trump likes to repeat himself (maybe he likes to stick with what has worked so far?). Trump also likes to keep it short: everyone else says ... [Read more...]