Practical R for Mass Communication and Journalism

Do you want to use R to tell stories? This book was written for you-whether you already know some R or have never coded before.

Most R texts focus only on programming or statistical theory. Practical R for Mass Communicationand Journalism gives you ideas, tools, and techniques for incorporating data and visualizations into your narratives.

You-ll see step by step how to:

• Analyze airport flight delays, restaurant inspections, and election results

• Map bank locations, median incomes, and new voting districts
• Compare campaign contributions to final election results
• Extract data from PDFs
• Whip messy data into shape for analysis
• Scrape data from a website
• Create graphics ranging from simple, static charts to interactive visualizations for the Web

If you work or plan to work in a ne