Last update: November 15. 2022 In preparation for the dumpster fire that is Oregon election reporting, I previously posed on importing a directory of .csv files. At present, that is what I can find to build this. What does the interface look like? library(magick) Img <- image_read("./img/SShot.png") image_ggplot(Img) This is terrible, there is a javascript button to download each separately. Nevertheless, here we go.
Get Some VIX data NB: I originally wrote this on February 27, 2020 so there is commentary surrounding that date. It was done on the quick for curiosity. I will update it by recompiling it with new data and will update the commentary noting when it took place. Chicago Board Of Exchange (CBOE) makes data available regularly. To judge the currency of the data, I have tailed it below after converting the dates to a valid date format.
Some Data from FREDr Downloading the FRED data on national debt as a percentage of GDP. I first want to examine the US data and will then turn to some comparisons. fredr makes it markable asy to do! I will use two core tools from fredr. First, fredr_series_search allows one to enter search text and retrieve the responsive series given that search text.
XBRL Changed XBRL has undergone and is undergoing some changes. Some filers have already needed to change their filings and others will have to soon. Here is the excerpt. XBRL Change This has broken many of the existing parsers for new filings. It is time to find a way around this. I have seen links for scraping them from Yahoo! Finance but that is not really what I want.
Driving Directions from R There is no reason that maps with driving directions cannot be produced in R. Given the directions api from Google, it should be doable. As it happens, I was surprised how easy it was. Let me try to map a simple A to B location. First, to the locations; I will specify two. It is possible to geolocate addresses for this also, I happened to have the GPS coordinates in hand.
tidyTuesday on the Carbon Footprint of Feeding the Planet The tidyTuesday for this week relies on data scraped from the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. The blog post for obtaining the data can be found on r-tastic. The scraping exercise is nice and easy to follow and explored a case of cleaning up a very messy data structure. I took this exercise as practice for using pivot_wider and pivot_longer.
Trees in San Francisco This week’s data cover trees in San Francisco. sf_trees <- readr::read_csv('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rfordatascience/tidytuesday/master/data/2020/2020-01-28/sf_trees.csv') library(tidyverse); library(ggmap); library(skimr) skim(sf_trees) Table 1: Data summary Name sf_trees Number of rows 192987 Number of columns 12 _______________________ Column type frequency: character 6 Date 1 numeric 5 ________________________ Group variables None Variable type: character skim_variable n_missing complete_rate min max empty n_unique whitespace legal_status 54 1.