web scraping

Data from NYT’s “An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2016 Election”

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:25. August 2018
Post category:Political science
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NYT has a cool new dataviz called An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2016 Election. Really, it's just a more detailed version of their initial county election page which I…

Web scraping with R using rvest & spatial autocorrelation

Post author:Emil O. W. Kirkegaard
Post published:8. September 2015
Post category:Programming

Scraping with R Although other languages are probably more suitable for web scraping (e.g. Python with Scrapy), R does have some scraping capabilities. Unsurprisingly, the ever awesome Hadley has written…