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Jeff Meisel’s Workshop @ ODSC
Today I’d like to draw attention to a workshop that Jeffrey Meisel gave at the Open Data Science Conference East (ODSC East) in Boston last weekend. Jeff is the Chief Marketing Officer of the US Census Bureau, and for a few months we’ve been talking about how to improve communication between the Census Bureau and the […]
Continue readingSlides from my Workshop: “Mapping Open Data in R”
On May 17 I had the pleasure of running a workshop at the Berkeley R Meetup. The workshop was titled “Mapping Open Data in R”, and I’ve had a few requests for the slides. You can see them below. [content_upgrade cu_id=”2688″]Bonus: Download the code from the slides![content_upgrade_button]Download[/content_upgrade_button][/content_upgrade]
Continue readingCase Study: Mapping German ZIP Codes in R
Shortly after running a webinar last week I received an email from Achim Rumberger, who attended the webinar live. Achim immediately put the webinar material into use for his own project, which involves mapping ZIP Codes in Germany. This was the first case study I received related to my new course, Shapefiles for R Programmers, and I wanted to share […]
Continue readingWebinar Recap: Shapefiles for R Programmers
Last week I ran two webinars on my new course, Shapefiles for R Programmers. If you were interested in watching, but unable attend, you can watch a replay below: Some thoughts on webinars I ran my first webinar about 6 months ago. Before running it I was unsure what to expect. However, it immediately became clear […]
Continue readingLaunch Bonuses for Shapefiles for R Programmers
Yesterday I announced two webinars that I will be running to celebrate the launch of my new course, Shapefiles for R Programmers. Today I’m announcing two bonuses that I’m giving to people who buy the course by Thursday at 5pm PT: A 15% discount (save $15)! An invitation to a special Q&A webinar with me Click here to learn […]
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