Posts Tagged Under: data

Simple map with tweets

Download, manage and visualize twitter data with R

Hey there,

in this article I will show you how to download, manage and visualize twitter data. I will supply you with all the code necessary to connect to the twitter API, download and plot user defined keywords in space.

Let’s start! So how do we get the Twitter data? Twitter allows

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Efficient import of large csv files into R

Hey everybody,

after a short summer break we are ready to emerge from several weeks in the doldrums 🙂

If you are working with large data sets stored in .csv format, the files are likely to comprise hundreds of MB or several GB of data.
Importing these csv files using the common read.csv or

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