Practical R for Mass Communication and Journalism

<p>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.</p><p>Most R texts focus only on programming or statistical theory. <b>Practical R for Mass Communication</b> <b>and Journalism</b> gives you ideas tools and techniques for incorporating data and visualizations into your narratives.</p><p>You’ll see step by step how to:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Analyze airport flight delays restaurant inspections and election results</li> </ul><ul> <p> </p> <li>Map bank locations median incomes and new voting districts</li> <p> </p> <li>Compare campaign contributions to final election results</li> <p> </p> <li>Extract data from PDFs</li> <p> </p> <li>Whip messy data into shape for analysis</li> <p> </p> <li>Scrape data from a website</li> <p> </p> <li>Create graphics ranging from simple static charts to interactive visualizations for the Web</li> </ul><p>If you work or plan to work in a newsroom government office non-profit policy organization or PR office <b>Practical R for Mass Communication</b> <b>and Journalism</b> will help you use R in <i>your</i> world.</p><p>This book has a companion website with code links to additional resources and searchable tables by function and task.</p><p>Sharon Machlis is the author of <i>Computerworld’s</i> <i>Beginner’s Guide to R</i> host of <i>InfoWorld’s</i> <i>Do More With R </i>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 <i>Computerworld</i> <i>InfoWorld</i> <i>PC World</i> and <i>Macworld</i> among others) and a frequent speaker at data journalism and R conferences.</p>