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Upcoming Webinars: Shapefiles for R Programmers
This weekend I finished production of my new course, Shapefiles for R Programmers. To celebrate the launch, tomorrow I will be announcing a special limited-time discount. Today, however, I want to announce two live webinars that I will be doing about the course: Wednesday at 1pm PT Thursday at 10am PT In these webinars I […]
Continue readingFree Workshop: Mapping Open Data in R
On May 17 I will be running a free workshop titled Mapping Open Data in R. The workshop will be in Berkeley, CA and is open to the public. If you have an interest in the subject matter then I hope that you will attend! Here is a sample of the maps that people will learn to […]
Continue readingR Election Analysis Contest Results
On March 28th I announced the R Election Analysis Contest. The quantity and quality of submissions was amazing! If you have not been following along, here is a complete list of submissions, with links, in order of submission. I encourage you to read them all! A Behind the Scenes Look… Before announcing the winner, I’d […]
Continue readingNew Course: “Shapefiles for R Programmers”
Today my new course, Shapefiles for R Programmers, is available for preorder! This course is designed to open up new doors of data analysis for R programmers by teaching them how to work with shapefiles, using both GIS programs and R. Shapefiles are the most common method of storing maps, and learning how to work […]
Continue readingA Tale of Two Bugs
Today I am happy to announce that a new version of choroplethr is now on CRAN. To get it type the following: The new version is 3.5.2. This version fixes two fairly pernicious bugs that were introduced in the last update to choroplethr. For reference, he is a detailed description of the bugs and their […]
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