Tag Archives: APIs

Sunday Data/Statistics Link Roundup (2/12)

Posted on February 12, 2012 by admin

An awesome alternative to D3.js - R’s svgAnnotation package. Here’s the paper in JSS. I feel like this is one step away from gaining broad use in the statistics community - it still feels a little complicated building the graphics, … Continue reading →

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List of cities/states with open data - help me find more!

Posted on January 2, 2012 by admin

It’s the beginning of 2012 and statistics/data science has never been hotter. Some of the most important data is data collected about civic organizations. If you haven’t seen Bill Gate’s TED Talk about the importance of state budgets, you should … Continue reading →

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Web-scraping

Posted on October 24, 2011 by admin

The internet is the greatest source of publicly available data. One of the key skills to being able to obtain data from the web is “web-scraping”, where you use a piece of software to run through a website and collect … Continue reading →

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