Open Government Data and Beer Analytics
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Open Data Science Conference | East
Jasmine Dumas | @jasdumas | jasdumas.github.io
Friday, May 5th, 2017
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and shinyLP
The “clearinghouse” for open U.S. government data is located at data.gov. It also contains tools & resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, and design data visualizations.
read.csv()
or read.table()
I was inspired to become better at finding datasets and web scraping from the road-blocks of finding analysis-ready datasets for projects about beer!
Here is a tutorial I wrote to get meta data on brewery ratings in Connecticut from Beer Advocate using Import.io and processed the data with R.
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packagervest
😄Specify a html document
Select parts of a document using css selectors using the inspect feature on Chrome or SelectorGadget: point and click CSS selectors