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Web Scraping w/ R

Web scraping with R using rvest & RSelenium
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I had a web scraping walk through on my old blog where I scraped Airbnb to find listings with king size beds, but Airbnb did major updates to their site and the post…
Aug 8, 2023
Mark Druffel

Building a blogdown site

Build a blogdown site from scratch with code-folding, a custom footer, & other hugo theme hacks
walkthrough
I’ve created a few different versions of my blog using blogdown. Creating new blog with blogdown is so simple, but customizing can be finicky. I started a guide when I…
Jan 5, 2022
Mark Druffel

European Energry

Tidy Tuesday analysis of European energy production from 2016 to 2018.
tidy-tuesday
This Tidy Tuesday, I’m analyzing European energy data. I don’t know much about the data set, but it seems like it contains European energy production data. To download the…
Aug 13, 2021
Mark Druffel

French Train Delays

Tidy Tuesday analysis of the TGV high-speed rail service from 2015 to 2018.
tidy-tuesday
This Tidy Tuesday, I’m analyzing french trains data from TGV, France’s inter-city high-speed rail service. This is an older Tidy Tuesday data set, but it looks like a fun…
May 4, 2021
Mark Druffel

Great American Beer Festival

Tidy Tuesday analysis of the Great American Beer Festival winners from 1987 to 2020.
tidy-tuesday
This is my first published of hopefully many Tidy Tuesday analysis posts. Tidy Tuesday is a weekly social data project in the R for Data Science community where R users…
Oct 26, 2020
Mark Druffel

Hello World

Starting a blog to share thoughts & code
At this year’s RStudio Conf David Robinson discussed the importance of sharing work publicly in his talk “The unreasonable effectiveness of public work.”. He attributed much…
Dec 21, 2019
Mark Druffel
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