Date: November 15th
Time: 11:00 a.m. EST
Description: The observation that “La Quinta is Spanish for ‘next to Denny’s'” is a joke made famous by the late comedian Mitch Hedberg. John Reiser, on his new jersey geographer blog, wrote up an analysis of this joke using data scraped from the respective websites of Denny’s (a diner chain) and La Quinta Inns and Suites (a hotel chain). In this case study we use Reiser’s work as inspiration for conducting a similar analysis in R, using a variety of packages for web scraping and processing non-tidy data into tidy data frames to be used in geospatial analysis.
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Data Science Case Study Webinar Registration:
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel , Data Scientist and Professional Educator - Mine is Professional Educator at RStudio and Assistant Professor of the Practice at
Duke University.
Her work focuses on innovation in statistics pedagogy, with an emphasis on computation, reproducible research, open-source education, and student-centered learning.
She is the author of three open-source introductory statistics textbooks as part of the OpenIntro project and teaches the popular Statistics with
R MOOC on Coursera
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