
Data Mashups in R
A Case Study in Real-World Data Analysis
Jeremy Leipzig(Author)
O'Reilly (Publisher)
Published on 19. April 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
38 pages
978-1-4493-0353-2 (ISBN)
Description
Data analysis is more than means and standard deviations. This ebook is a case study of how you can push R into new territory to analyze online real-world data. The authors scrape public foreclosure records for Philadelphia, geocode them, plot them by county, and analyze the results, using R facilities to interact with web servers, parse HTML and XML, and more.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sebastopol
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 177 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
85 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4493-0353-2 (9781449303532)
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Person
Jeremy Leipzig is a bioinformatics software developer at DuPont Crop Genetics. He has conducted academic research in viral integration, metagenomics, schizophrenia, and alternative splicing. While a graduate student, he developed one of the first faculty-review websites and wrote "Work Issues in Software Engineering", a survey-based study of "death march" projects. Xiao-Yi Li is a biostatistician with an M.Sc. from University of Michigan. In fact, her entire education experience has be revolving statistics, a percentile or otherwise. Currently, she works in the bioinformatics group at DuPont as a statistical consultant. Her work consists mostly of design of experiments and analysis for phenotypic screens, quality control in microarrays, and association mapping.
Content
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Mapping Foreclosures
- Chapter 2: Statistics of Foreclosure
- Getting Started