Analysis with R

I recently worked on data for a story with Charlie Warzel at Buzzfeed about media coverage of Facebook over time. I am  really interested in the decline of public opinion towards Big Tech, and wanted to quantify it. Getting Data from the NYT API I started by using the New York Times API to pull […]

Update: A few people reached out asking me to re-run this analysis for Ms. Swift’s latest album, Lover. I did and was somewhat surprised to see that the alcohol references weren’t a passing phase. I followed the same methodology as I did for the below, but this time put the data into Tableau Public for […]

March 28, 2018 Text Analysis of Tim Ferriss Podcast Episodes Using R I recently came across a great respository of transcripts from Tim Ferriss’ podcast, courtesy of transcripts.io. I don’t actually listen to Ferriss’ podcast (too heavily monetized for my taste), but I know that many do and he gets great guests. I thought I’d […]

Facebook Profile Data Analysis It’s fun to see data about yourself. So upon learning that you can download all of your facebook data, I think it’s natural to want to analyze it. Facebook makes it quite easy to download all of your data, but analyzing it is harder. You get a .zip file with a […]