Short Video Introduction to the General Social Survey
The General Social Survey (GSS) is a workhorse data set in sociological research and other forms of research. Recently, the GSS started a YouTube channel, and premiered a short video introduction to the data set.
An Introduction to Longitudinal Analysis
An introduction to the analysis of longitudinal data.
Post to WordPress through R Markdown
Publish a Markdown report direct to your WordPress blog
Steps in a Data Analysis Job
What are the steps in a data analysis job?
Avoid Starting Out by Chasing the Latest Hot Thing
Focus on the foundations, then chase the new hot thing
Working with NYPD Data: Shootings Under DeBlasio
Tutorial to derive trend graphs of crime using NYPD data from NYC OpenData.
Quick Tutorial: American Community Survey
A quick walk-through of simple analyses using American Community Survey data.
Getting Started with GitHub and RStudio
Use Github to track and share your R scripts
Combined Statistical Areas
What are Combined Statistical Areas? A Combined Statistical Area (CSA) is a large geographic region comprised of localities (townships, towns, cities) that are substantially sustained by, and dependent on, a common urban center. The concept of Combined Statistical Areas denotes our sense of major cities’ “greater metropolitan areas”. For example, New York’s CSA stretches out […]
Labeling Exhibits in R Markdown
This tutorial describes how to label exhibits in your Markdown file. We will caption tables, figures, and images. This tutorial shows quick-and-dirty methods. Download the Markdown file used to generate this post here. Tables Imagine I want to convert this data frame named “table.raw” to a polished table in a report that I am generating […]