R Projects

Harry Potter and the Basic Text Analysis

Exploring the text of the Harry Potter book series using natural language processing techniques in R.

It seeks to find answers to the questions:

• Which book has a bigger vocab?
• Who is Harry’s closest friend?
• Who are the most prominent secondary characters?
• What are the 4 major themes/settings in the Series?

Harry Potter and the Sentiment Analysis

Exploring the tone of the Harry Potter book series using natural language processing techniques in R.

It seeks to find answers to the questions:

• Which of the heroes and villians have the most positive/negative sentiment?
• How does the sentiment of these heroes and villians change across each book?
• Which Hogwarts House contains the most positive sentiment?
• How does sentiment usually change over the course of one school year?

Creating a GIF of a Log-Sigmoid Curve

A demonstration of how to create GIF's using R.

Creating a GIF in ggplot is extremely simple and only requires one additional package beyond ggplot2.

I show how the R package gifski can be used to convert a series of plots into a GIF of a Log-Sigmoid curve.

Parallel Processing Primer

A demonstration of the parallel package for parallel processing in R.

GIF Tutorial in R

A tutorial of how to create GIF's using R.

I take look at a few GIF vinettes featuring three potential utilitarian purposes. Then, I view some applied examples. Finally, I look line-by-line at the code ourselves.

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