Scraping Table With R Datasets

It’s a very quick post on how to get a list of datasets available from within R with their basic description (what package they can be found in, number of observations and variables). It always takes me some time to find the right dataset to showcase whatever process or method I’m working with, so this was really to make my... [Read More]

Harari Sentiment Analysis

So! Following my previous blog post where I scraped Amazon reviews of Yuval Harari’s Sapiens to create a wordcloud based on them, here I will compare results of sentiment analysis performed on Harari’s two books: Sapiens and Homo Deus. [Read More]

Amazon Reviews Wordcloud

In the last month I discovered two things that changed my life: audiobooks and Yuval Harari. The former completely transformed my daily commute, the latter changed the way I think about the surrounding world (with more appreciation for history and politics, to say the least). The cocktail of the two made my brain cells sing. [Read More]

Disney Names

My goal is to analyse how frequency of names found among Disney female characters changed over time in the US. Specifically, I want to see if the movie release had any impact on their popularity. For this purpose, I will use babynames dataset that is available on CRAN. [Read More]