I’ve struggled all morning on how to set shapefile encodings in R. Finally I got this solution to handle both French and Spanish characters.
Happy coding!
How safe is Mexico? That is a frequent question people ask me. There is even a…
This post shows how to use Google Maps’ API with R making some tweaks to this function. Combine the first part…
If you were wondering what big data is, check out this post for an example. Big data is characterized by its volume, velocity, variety. The mentioned blog post indicates how many Facebook Likes, Google searches, YouTube videos, etc. happen by second. This is a lot of data waiting to to be mined.
See the differences between geek and nerd using Twitter data via Slackpropagation
To many people, “geek” and “nerd” are synonyms, but in fact they are a little different. Consider the phrase “sports geek” — an occasional substitute for “jock” and perhaps the arch-rival of a…
Answer: Facebook 45% of world wide web users went to it yesterday.. and it gets about 5% more than google.
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Excellent article by Stephen Worlfram about facebook statistics: ages, friends posts, interests, etc.
Source: Big Data and Data Science
There are inconsistencies in the available database of Encuesta Nacional de Victimización y Percepción sobre Seguridad Pública 2012 (ENVIPE)
Using the PSUs, weights and strata specified (download the “Descripción de archivos¨ file). The estimates…
