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Data Mashups in R: A Case Study in Real-World Data Analysis
How do you use R to import, manage, visualize, and analyze real-world data? With this short, hands-on tutorial, you learn how to collect online data, massage it into a reasonable form, and work with it using R facilities to interact with web servers, parse HTML and XML, and more. Rather than use canned sample data, you'll plot and analyze current home foreclosure auctions in Philadelphia. This practical mashup exercise shows you how to access spatial data in several formats locally and over the Web to produce a map of home foreclosures. It's an excellent way to explore how the R environment works with R packages and performs statistical analysis.
40 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2009
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March 14, 2011
I got this as an O'Reilly "Ebook Deal Of The Day", and for 5$ it's acceptable. I would however have been very disappointed had I paid 10$ for this. Either way, you're probably better off googling for some free R tutorials online.
November 25, 2011
30 pages for $13? I think most of the tips can be found online somewhere. But it is still nice to have a book concentrated on one subject and showing a lot of fun tricks on visualizing the data. Not a waste of time, but a bit waste of money if you buy it.
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