R

Connecting to socrata datasets from R

The socrata data platform allows governments to make data easily available, both for their own use and publicly. The easiest way to get data that is hosted on a socrata platform into R for analysis is through the RSocrata package. This post walks through how to do this First, we need to source some data. […]

How to connect to AWS s3 buckets from R

The aws.s3 library for R provides quick and easy methods to connect, download and upload content into already existing aws s3 buckets.

How to connect to Quandl with R

Quandl, now part of Nasdaq, provide structured data, primarily for finance and economic analysis, but have also categorized and structured data that is useful for a range of population and business analysis. Quandl’s service has structured this information from a range of traditional and alternative data suppliers Some of the data available through Quandl comes […]