In my previous post I discussed how we can alter the R & Python story to be predicated on APIs as a way to bridge the language divide. The R & Python love story feels almost like unrequited love (h/t). Much of the development towards integrating the two languages has…

or how to incorporate excel into a production API using plumber or a micro-excel-micro-service — Originally published at http://josiahparry.com. I recently had a conversation that touched on using to automate the parsing of Excel documents for administering data science assets. This brings up some very interesting points: Excel is sometimes unavoidable and we need to be okay with that. How can we incorporate Excel into…

Origins and current perspective — Lately I have been developing a deep curiosity of the origins of the R language. I have since read a more from the WayBack Machine than a Master’s student probably should. There are four documents that I believe to be extremely foundational and most clearly outline the original philosophies underpinning…

and {gargle} in general This repository contains an example of an R Markdown document that uses googlesheets4 to read from a private Google Sheet and is deployed to RStudio Connect. The path of least resistance for Google auth is to sit back and respond to some interactive prompts, but this won’t work for something that…

Extracting and plotting feature importance — This post will go over extracting feature (variable) importance and creating a ggplot object for it. I will draw on the simplicity of Chris Albon’s post. For steps to do the following in Python, I recommend his post. If you’ve ever created a decision tree, you’ve probably looked at measures…

Making functions with methods in R. Lately I have been doing more of my spatial analysis work in R with the help of the sf package. One shapefile I was working with had some horrendously named columns, and naturally, I tried to clean them using the clean_names() function from the janitor package. But lo, an egregious…

Before the United States created the Constitution, something called the Articles of Confederation defined what the US Government would look like. It was the first attempt at creating some sort of agreement between the 13 original states to form a central government. In the end, the Articles of Confederation made…

I have been living in the world of academia for nearly five years now. During this time I’ve read countless scholarly journal articles that I’ve struggled to wrap my head around. The academic language is riddled with obfuscating words like “milieux” and “nexus” which are often used to explain relatively…

A f’ing fun introduction to tidytext analysis with geniusR — My recent package geniusR was created with the idea of a tidytext analysis of song lyrics in mind. I now wish to introduce you to the concepts and application of tidytext analysis through the use of geniusR. If you would like an introduction to geniusR please read my Introduction to…