by Earl F. Glynn, Kansas Watchdog This article describes how the data obtained from scraping 105 pages of county election data were analyzed and mapped using R. Background The Kansas Secretary of State published Nov. 2010 election results online, inclu... [Read more...]

by Earl F. Glynn, Kansas Watchdog The goal of this article is to describe how to “reshape” data from screen scraping to make analysis with existing tools easier. Background The Kansas Secretary of State published Nov. 2010 election results ... [Read more...]

by Earl F. Glynn, Kansas Watchdog The goal of this article is to show how to visit 105 online web pages programmatically and “scrape” data from them to form a statewide summary of election data in Kansas. An earlier article gave details of ... [Read more...]

by Earl F. Glynn, Kansas Watchdog The goal of this exercise is to show how to “screen scrape” data from an online web page using R. Additional articles will extend this example to scrape data from 105 Kansas county pages to form a statewide... [Read more...]