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Every day I keep learning
Intro I missed writing an entry last week. Not that I haven’t learned anything I could discuss, but rather because I have been learning and coding a bit too much lately… Learning more about Postgres Among many other things (that will make for potentially quite a few other entries in the Blog), I learned one…
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Functions, Environments, Closures: Alternatives to Objects (an intro)
Intro So I’ve mentioned the concepts of Functional Programming in R a couple of times (here & here) already. I’ve also played a bit with OOP (Object Oriented Programming) in R. But I needed to explain it to others. There are MANY resources on the topic, but I wanted to SHOW it with a reasonably…
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NLP (1/n): Scraping all the Blog articles (the hard way)
Intro To use Natural Language Processing algorithms, we first need data. We’ve seen last time how to scrape ONE article. And how to get to different pages of the Blog. But for this to be usable in the future, we should be able to download all articles UNTIL there is no more (e.g. we probably…