Monetizing R Portfolios
I recently ran an office hours on the topic of building R Portfolios. The conversation was fascinating to me. One issue that came up was monetization. Basically, creating an R Portfolio is a ton of work. How can you make any money out of it? I’m sure that there are lots of possibilities. But here are the […]
How to “get good at R”
Recently a few people in my membership site have asked me the following question: How can I get good at R? This has come up enough times for me to outline my thoughts on the subject. That way I can simply forward people to this post the next time the question comes up. My advice is geared […]
Want to learn how to make maps in R?
Once upon a time I wrote an open source package that makes it easy to create choropleth maps in R. I called the package choroplethr. Then I created a free email course to teach people how to use the software. That course is called Learn to Map Census Data in R, and has been taken by thousands […]
Results from the R Shapefile Contest!
Today I am happy to announce the results from the R Shapefile Contest. The contest was an incredible success – there were 19 entries that covered a range of topics. Each entry was well thought out, and I encourage you to read each of them. Here are the entries, in order of submission: [content_upgrade cu_id=”3205″]Bonus: […]
Update on the R Shapefile Contest
This is a reminder that the R Shapefile Contest ends this Friday, July 29! We already have four incredible entries: Kent Johnson looked at the Cambridge Outdoor Lighting Ordinance. James B. Elsner, Thomas H. Jagger, and Tyler Fricker studied the Long-Term View of Tornado Risk. Robby Powell explored Airport Effects on U.S. County Unemployment Rates Jonathan Carroll researched the […]