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Mining for Data Clusters: Social Network Analysis With R and Gephi

By Juan Manuel Ortiz de Zarate

Explore X (formerly Twitter) data clusters to uncover user behaviors (e.g., repost and reply patterns) within online communities. This guide focuses on a politically charged data set to illustrate the process of visualizing and analyzing social data.

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Python vs. R: Syntactic Sugar Magic

By Leandro Roser

Python and R empower data scientists to solve problems using elegant syntactic sugar, simplifying coding and solution exploration. Each language brings its unique capabilities and approach to bear.

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Social Network Analysis Using Power BI and R: A Custom Visuals Guide

By Bharat Garg

Microsoft's Power BI is one of the most popular software solutions used to perform social network analysis. Here's how to create custom Power BI visuals in R for compelling and flexible results.

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Understanding Twitter Dynamics With R and Gephi: Text Analysis and Centrality

By Juan Manuel Ortiz de Zarate

Centrality and text analysis allow users to get more out of their social network data. Here’s how you can leverage them using R and Gephi.

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Social Network Analysis in R and Gephi: Digging Into Twitter

By Juan Manuel Ortiz de Zarate

Thanks to rapid advances in technology, large amounts of data generated on social networks can be analyzed with relative ease, especially for those who use the R programming language and Gephi.

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Stars Realigned: Improving the IMDb Rating System

By Juan Manuel Ortiz de Zarate

IMDb ratings have genre bias: For example, dramas tend to score higher. Removing common feature bias and keeping unique characteristics, it's possible to create a new, refined score based on IMDb information.

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Boost Your Data Munging With R

By Jan Gorecki

As a language, R is strongly tied to data and is thus used mostly by statisticians and data scientists. Many who already use R for machine learning, though, are not aware that data munging can be done faster in R, meaning another tool is not required for that task. In this article, Freelance Software Engineer Jan Gorecki explores tabular data transformations and introduces us to one of the fastest open-source data wrangling tools available.

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