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EPL Scraping In a previous post, I scraped some NFL data and learned the structure of Sportrac. Now, I want to scrape the available …

Last updated on Apr 17, 2021 13 min read R, web scraping

The NFL Data [SporTrac](http://www.sportrac.com] has a wonderful array of financial data on sports. A student going to work for the …

Last updated on Apr 17, 2021 9 min read R, tidyverse, python, reticulate

I found a great example on tidyTuesday that I wanted to work on. @JakeKaupp tweeted his #tidyTuesday: a very cool slope plot of tuition …

Last updated on Apr 17, 2021 3 min read R, tidyverse

Pew on Rainy Day Funds and Credit Quality The Pew Charitable Trusts released a report last May (2017) that portrays rainy day funds …

Last updated on Apr 17, 2021 8 min read R, Public Finance

The Government Finance Database Some of my colleagues (Kawika Pierson, Mike Hand, and Fred Thompson) have put together a convenient …

Last updated on Apr 17, 2021 11 min read R, Maps, Public Finance

Longitudinal and Panel Data Analysis in R Goal: A CRAN task view for panel/longitudinal data analysis in R. What is Panel Data? Panel …

Last updated on Apr 17, 2021 7 min read

Variance in the Outcome: The Black Box Regression models engage an exercise in variance accounting. How much of the outcome is …

Last updated on Apr 17, 2021 5 min read R, GSM622

Correlations and the Impact on Sums and Differences I will use a simple R function to illustrate the effect of correlation on sums and …

Last updated on Apr 17, 2021 1 min read R, GSM622

Presidential Press The language of presidential communications is interesting and I know very little about text as data. I have a …

Last updated on Apr 17, 2021 4 min read