The NFL Data
[SporTrac](http://www.sportrac.com] has a wonderful array of financial data on sports. A student going to work for the Seattle Seahawks wanted the NFL salary cap data and I also found data on the English Premier League there. Now I have a source to scrape the data from.
With a source in hand, the key tool is the SelectorGadget. SelectorGadget is a browser add-in for Chrome that allows us to select text and identify the css or xpath selector to scrape the data.
I found a great example on tidyTuesday that I wanted to work on. @JakeKaupp tweeted his #tidyTuesday: a very cool slope plot of tuition changes averaged by state over the last decade. It is a very informative graphic. The only tweak is a simple embedded line plot that uses color in a creative way to show growth rates. All of the R code for this is on Jake Kaupp’s GitHub.
Presidential Press
The language of presidential communications is interesting and I know very little about text as data. I have a number of applications in mind for these tools but I have to learn how to use them. What does the website look like?
White House News
The site is split in four parts: all news, articles, presidential actions, and briefings and statements. The first one is a catch all and the second is news links.