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A basic scraping exercise for a friend
Intro The other day a friend that owns a small business asked me for help. He needed to download all photos from a set of URLs of his own web-page, but there were hundreds of URLs, in each a few photos, and he didn’t really know how to go about it “quickly” (as always, it…
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Faster graphs in R: iGraph vs visNetwork
Intro Network Graphs are NICE and USEFUL (or at least, that’s my opinion). I have used them many a time, and they really usually help me get an understanding that I wouldn’t get by just looking at rows and rows of a table… To visualize such “networks”, I usually prefer the package visNetwork. It’s nice,…
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About efficiency
Intro A few weeks back I needed to test working with the “parquet” file type. It turned out I couldn’t (as much as I tried) get my Docker container’s RStudio to take the “arrow” package and install it (it would always fail, but that’s beyond the point for this particular post). A side note about…