Excel pivot tables have been how I have reorganized data…up until now. These are just a couple of examples why R is superior to Excel for reorganizing data:
UPDATE: I fixed the code to use ‘dcast’...
I recently gathered fish harvest data from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administarion (NOAA), which I downloaded from Infochimps. The data is fish harvest by weight and value, by speci...
Wikispeedia is a website trying to gather all speed limit signs on Earth. I recently created a Google Visualization for some of their data, specifically on speed limit signs that change speed thro...
Earlier, I posted about generating networks from abundance distributions that you specify. If this post was interesting, check out Jeff Kilpatrick’s website, where he provides code he produced in R...
Okay, so this isn't ecology related at all, but I like exploring data sets. So here goes...
Propublica has some awesome data sets available at their website: http://www.propublica.org/tools/
I...