Practical R for Mass Communication and Journalism PDF
by Sharon Machlis
Part of the Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series series
Description
Do you want to use R to tell stories? This book was written for you-whether you already know some R or have never coded before.
Most R texts focus only on programming or statistical theory. Practical R for Mass Communicationand Journalism gives you ideas, tools, and techniques for incorporating data and visualizations into your narratives.
You'll see step by step how to:
- Analyze airport flight delays, restaurant inspections, and election results
- Map bank locations, median incomes, and new voting districts
- Compare campaign contributions to final election results
- Extract data from PDFs
- Whip messy data into shape for analysis
- Scrape data from a website
- Create graphics ranging from simple, static charts to interactive visualizations for the Web
If you work or plan to work in a newsroom, government office, non-profit policy organization, or PR office, Practical R for Mass Communicationand Journalism will help you use R in your world.
This book has a companion website with code, links to additional resources, and searchable tables by function and task.
Sharon Machlis is the author of Computerworld'sBeginner's Guide to R, host of InfoWorld'sDo More With R video screencast series, admin for the R for Journalists Google Group, and is well known among Twitter users who follow the #rstats hashtag. She is Director of Editorial Data and Analytics at IDG Communications (parent company of Computerworld, InfoWorld, PC World and Macworld, among others) and a frequent speaker at data journalism and R conferences.
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- Pages:260 pages
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:260 pages
- Publisher:CRC Press
- Publication Date:21/12/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781351751131
