My first adventure with data exploration
Open source program R is widely used by statisticians because is a very powerful tool to deal with large data sets. I am exploring ways with the help of Leonid Pekelis to make it better known and...
View ArticleUsing Tableau Public to visualize the US Aid since 1949
I used Tableau Public during a workshop today at the IRE conference in St. Louis to play with the same data set Leonid and I used during our first R experiment. These are the results: Powered by...
View ArticleLink to tutorials and presentations on working with data
Tools, Slides and Links from NICAR12. Link: http://www.chryswu.com/blog/2012/02/22/tools-slides-and-links-from-nicar12/
View ArticleIntro to R
Jacob Fenton from the Sunlight Foundation taught a hands-on training session this morning about R at the IRE conference http://bit.ly/correlation-does-not-imply-causation
View ArticleExcellent Fusion Tables tutorial
Patricia Carbajales, Geospatial Manager at the Branner Earth Sciences Library at Stanford University, explains step by step how to use Fusion Tables using a data set about Mexico Drug Murders created...
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