I recall having once scraped data from a Malaysian property site so that I may be able to plot the monthly rental rates for a specific neighborhood in Selangor. This time I thought it might be interesting to try and … Continue reading →

Finally got myself an internet connection at home, so i can start with another scraping project. This time i thought it would be nice to try a non-English site that also has coordinate data in each post. Settled on a … Continue reading →

I came across this post written by a James Cheshire that introduces people to the topic of spatial data using R. I don’t know a single thing of using spatial information so i thought i should give it a shot. … Continue reading →

I’ve only just come to realize some social media sites allow you to download your entire historical activity in one large data file. I don’t know about other sites, but i’m aware that twitter does give you the option to download … Continue reading →

I came across a local website where individuals/dealers in Malaysia can post information on used and new cars that they are selling. Why i, in particular, would browse such a site might dumbfound some people (those who personally know me would … Continue reading →

Alright. Time to take another shot at web scraping. My attempt at scraping data off iBilik.my left me a little frustrated because of how long it took, and also at how i couldn’t get much information because of all the duplicated … Continue reading →

Alright. Time to take a crack at another data set, and see if i can hone some of those data cleaning skills that i’ve just learned on Coursera. The data sets I’m using are from the World Bank’s Changing Wealth of … Continue reading →

Still going through the Getting and Cleaning Data course on Coursera while also enrolling in the Data Manipulation using dplyr course on DataCamp. That said, i guess working on a teeny data exploration task on actual raw data would help in remembering all these new … Continue reading →