{"product_id":"9781449307257","title":"Data Mashups in R: A Case Study in Real-World Data Analysis","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow do you use R to import, manage, visualize, and analyze real-world data? With this short, hands-on tutorial, you learn how to collect online data, massage it into a reasonable form, and work with it using R facilities to interact with web servers, parse HTML and XML, and more. Rather than use canned sample data, you'll plot and analyze current home foreclosure auctions in Philadelphia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis practical mashup exercise shows you how to access spatial data in several formats locally and over the Web to produce a map of home foreclosures. It's an excellent way to explore how the R environment works with R packages and performs statistical analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eParse messy data from public foreclosure auction postings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlot the data using R's PBSmapping package\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eImport US Census data to add context to foreclosure data\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUse R's lattice and latticeExtra packages for data visualization\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCreate multidimensional correlation graphs with the pairs() scatterplot matrix package\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"O'Reilly Media, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128390926576,"sku":"9781449307257","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781449307257_p0.jpg?v=1763838565","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781449307257","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}