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Rstudio in the cloud for those of us with old laptops

I use a Thinkpad from 2015 for my day to day work, and you can imagine things are getting slower as time goes by. Recently I had to test some computation in an R package I am developing and my computer froze multiple times.

Last updated on 2023-01-20 4 min read R

Getting Google Analytics data in R the long way

One of the ways for getting Google Analytics data in R is using the excellent package googleAnalyticsR. GA4 and Big Query But suppose you are curious about trying (the new) GA4 because the old one is going away, and you set it up on your site (like I did on the Discindo blog).

Last updated on 2022-12-29 4 min read R

Python dashboards after Shiny for Python

After building a demo in Shiny for Python I decided to see how to build a demo dashboard with the other tools available for Python, namely Streamlit and Dash. The good thing about doing all these in Python is that so much of the code can be reused.

Last updated on 2022-12-03 2 min read Python

Packaging a Python Shiny app

After spending few years writing R Shiny apps with {golem}, the first thing I thought about when writing the Python Shiny demo was is it possible to convert it to a python package and if yes how to it.

Last updated on 2022-11-20 2 min read Python

Using Wikidata to draw networks of Politically Exposed Persons #2

In the previous post I outlined the approach to query data from Wikidata, and wrangle your way to a result about some relationships between politically exposed persons on the example of the rather poor data available for North Macedonia.

Last updated on 2022-11-18 2 min read Python