https://dressing-up-data.netlify.app/tags/r/ Recent content in R on Dressing Up Data Hugo -- gohugo.io Copyright © 2008–2018, Steve Francia and the Hugo Authors; all rights reserved. Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://dressing-up-data.netlify.app/post/2026-03-17-seeking-validation/ Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://dressing-up-data.netlify.app/post/2026-03-17-seeking-validation/ The time has come for me to reckon with EAD. EAD, or Encoded Archival Description, has been in my life for a couple of years now. During grad school, I did a lot of experimenting with converting the hierarchical, tag-based XML data of EAD into tabular data. One of the outputs of this was a paper in which I visualized metadata from a Smithsonian Folk Life archival collection as a spatial network, and analyzed the geographical spread of various genre tags assigned to audio recordings. https://dressing-up-data.netlify.app/post/sentiment-lexicons/ Mon, 25 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://dressing-up-data.netlify.app/post/sentiment-lexicons/ “Wow, that book was great!” said Grace as she wrapped up another installment in the Nancy Drew Files series. “Nancy’s life is so exciting, but it seems like she’s always getting herself into trouble.” Grace didn’t remember there being this much mortal peril in the original Nancy Drew Mystery Stories! If you can’t already tell, this post – and more to come – is about Nancy Drew, and is heavily inspired by the Data-Sitters Club. https://dressing-up-data.netlify.app/post/2024-10-29-code-switching/ Tue, 29 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://dressing-up-data.netlify.app/post/2024-10-29-code-switching/ I don't generally consider myself to be stubborn. I am very open to trying new things -- in fact, I love trying new things! I have no problem going off on my own to see a new place, I'll ask questions even if it feels like I should already know the answer, I'm very open to being taught or corrected. Figure 1: Just last week I went on a solo adventure to Heysham, where I found this ruin of an 8th century chapel and learned all about Viking gravestones from a lovely docent at a local historic church! https://dressing-up-data.netlify.app/post/bates-donations/ Fri, 05 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://dressing-up-data.netlify.app/post/bates-donations/ This is a project I worked on in a course I just finished, called Archives, Data, and Analysis. It explores the early donations to the Maine State Seminary, the precursor institution to Bates College. Introduction When thinking about the financial history of Bates College, there is one name that immediately comes to mind: Benjamin Bates. In recent years, Benjamin Bates’s life and legacy has become a point of interest as we, like other colleges, grapple with our early history. https://dressing-up-data.netlify.app/post/v4h-nd-rankings/ Sun, 05 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://dressing-up-data.netlify.app/post/v4h-nd-rankings/ Let’s do some Nancy Drew analysis! Back story: I love Nancy Drew - the character, the books, and especially the point-and-click adventure games by HerInteractive. Even though these games are by no means the world’s most well-known computer games, there is a vibrant online presence of ND fans, including, for the past couple years, Vote4Holt. https://dressing-up-data.netlify.app/post/2022-06-14-to-shiny-or-not-to-shiny/ Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://dressing-up-data.netlify.app/post/2022-06-14-to-shiny-or-not-to-shiny/ That is the question… Shiny is one of my favorite R packages. For those who aren’t R enthusiasts (or those who are but haven’t yet been introduced to Shiny), Shiny is an R package that allows you to create interactive applications. With a single script, you can super easily create a UI and server that will take user input and generate graphs, tables, text, and even maps. So far, I’ve mostly used Shiny to level up my leaflet game.