Cheltenham Festival 2015 - Twitter Analysis

This page contains links to various articles, packages, that I found interesting and/or useful.

R packages

streamR
hadleyverse Hadley Wickham packages
- stringr - string manipulation
- ggplot2 - visualisation
- dplyr - data manipulation
- rvest - web scraping
rmarkdown - used to build this site!
RcappeR - used for the custom ggplot2 theme
wesanderson - used for nice palettes

Blogs

streamR intro by Pablo Barbera
Sentiment Analysis by Jeffrey Breen
ROAuth and twitteR - accessing Twitter’s API
Presidential Sentiment Analysis
Handling and Processing Strings by Gaston Sanchez
My look at the 2014 Cheltenham Festival
- part 1
- part 2

R Learning resources

Stat 545 - Data wrangling, exploration and Analysis with R - by Dr Jennifer Bryan
- this site contains tutorials on all manner of R related things, a superb resource
Dataschool
r-bloggers
StatMethods