TL;DR: htmlTable and tableHTML are better than xtable for creating HTML tables in R. Today, I had to make tables for a Word document, meaning I could not convert my R table to Latex code. (I know I know, pandoc. Just another crusty old thing to learn.) In the past, I had used xtable, but […]
[UPDATE: My best use of academic Twitter yet. I tweeted a link to this post and quickly got pwnd by the internet. What I learned: there is a function, ggsave(), that does this that I did not know about. So use that instead of the hacky workaround I came up with. Never would’ve learned if […]
Today, I need to launch a new AWS EC2 instance to collect some more tweets. Since I have done this several times, I used my AWS console to replicate the most recent instance I created that collects tweets. Everything ran smoothly until I tried to install streamR, my go to library for collecting tweets in […]
This post is a sequel to my wildly popular – ok, not wildly popular, but very useful for me – post documenting my function to create a forest plot. Recently, I made models using cross-validation via R’s caret package. The train() function does the heavy lifting, but the problem is that its output is a […]
TL;DR: Just use generic style files for new projects. Overleaf is the best tool I have found for collaborating on Latex documents. It is cloud-based, has a ton of templates, nice text editing features that go beyond TexShop and other desktop editors I know, and the rich text editor (using a GUI, like a word processor) […]
On the heels of my book inventory for 2017 is this post, my celebrity sighting inventory for 2017. The New England sophisticate in me hates that I even considered documenting these events, much less put them on my professional website, but the budding Angelino in me, interacted with my forgetfulness, thinks it’s so cool that […]
Inspired by Aaron Clauset’s annual catalogue of his productivity and spurred by my forgetfulness, this post is the first of what I hope will be many that catalogue my leisure reading of the previous year. In no particular order, I read: The Autobiography of Malcolm X – As good as you’ve heard. Though dictated, it felt like the […]
With some free time on my hands, I sat down to update my code that extracts tweets from my tweet collection based on user-supplied keywords or locations. In doing that, however, I ended up making a major improvement, one that should have existed from day one. You see, simply trying to read a file of […]
I thought I was going to spend some time on Friday analyzing tweets from Cameroon. Instead, starting that process led me down a rabbit hold that has, I hope, culminated in me realizing I should have used Python’s simplejson library this whole time. A script of mine used a try-except sequence to enclose the section […]
I recently wrote a script that reads thousands of files of tweets, transforms them, and spits out “only” hundreds of files. Having tested the script on my computer on a few files, I was surprised to find the execution taking much longer than anticipated on my server, especially since the server’s CPUs are more powerful […]
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