Practical R for Mass Communication and Journalism

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-72691-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 217 mm x 292 mm, Gewicht: 742 g

Reihe: Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series

Do you want to use R to tell stories? This book was written for you—whether you already know some R or have never coded before.

Most R texts focus only on programming or statistical theory. Practical R for Mass Communication and Journalism gives you ideas, tools, and techniques for incorporating data and visualizations into your narratives.

You’ll see step by step how to:

- Analyze airport flight delays, restaurant inspections, and election results

- Map bank locations, median incomes, and new voting districts

- Compare campaign contributions to final election results

- Extract data from PDFs

- Whip messy data into shape for analysis

- Scrape data from a website

- Create graphics ranging from simple, static charts to interactive visualizations for the Web

If you work or plan to work in a newsroom, government office, non-profit policy organization, or PR office, Practical R for Mass Communication and Journalism will help you use R in your world.

This book has a companion website with code, links to additional resources, and searchable tables by function and task.

Sharon Machlis is the author of Computerworld’s Beginner’s Guide to R, host of InfoWorld’s Do More With R video screencast series, admin for the R for Journalists Google Group, and is well known among Twitter users who follow the #rstats hashtag. She is Director of Editorial Data and Analytics at IDG Communications (parent company of Computerworld, InfoWorld, PC World and Macworld, among others) and a frequent speaker at data journalism and R conferences.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Machlis, Sharon

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Presse & Journalismus
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Mathematische Statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Business Application Mathematische & Statistische Software

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Get Started With R in a Few Easy Steps. See How Much You Can Do in a Few Lines of Code. Import data into R. Project: Snowfall data; Skill: Basic data exploration. Project: Raw Snowfall data; Skill: Reshape data. Project: Airport Delays by Airline; Skill: Analyze data by groups. Map Median: Household Income; Skills: Simple mapping, saving graphics. Population Density and Election Results: Is There a Relationship?; Skills: Joining tables, correlations, basic linear regression. Easily Reproducible Reports With R Markdown; Skills: Generate a Word doc or HTML file from an R script.

Über Autor(innen)

Sharon Machlis is the author of Computerworld’s Beginner’s Guide to R, host of InfoWorld’s Do More With R video screencast series, admin for the R for Journalists Google Group, and is well known among Twitter users who follow the #rstats hashtag. She is Director of Editorial Data and Analytics at IDG Communications (parent company of Computerworld, InfoWorld, PC World and Macworld, among others) and a frequent speaker at data journalism and R conferences.