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Remote Pair Programming in R
Recently I’ve been doing a lot of remote pair programming with clients. A few people have asked how this works. Rather than try to explain it, I recorded one of my sessions with a client last week, and you can watch it below: The actual session was about an hour long, though I edited it […]
Continue readingQGIS, Open Source GIS & R
Today’s post is by Kurt Menke, the owner of Bird’s Eye View GIS, a GIS consultancy. Kurt also wrote the book Mastering QGIS. In my latest course (Shapefiles for R Programmers) I briefly introduce people to QGIS. Kurt’s post below gives you a roadmap for learning more. I come to this blog from a slightly different, […]
Continue readingJeff 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 […]
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