Rectangling (Social) Network Data

Preparing data for link prediction

In this tutorial I will show you how we go from network data to a rectangular format that is suited for machine learning. Many things in the world are graphs (networks). For instance: real-life friendships, business interactions, links between websites and (digital) social networks. I find graphs (the formal name for networks) fascinating, and because I am also interested in machine learning and data engineering, the question naturally becomes: How do I get (social) network data into a rectangular structure for ML? [Read More]

Munging and reordering Polarsteps data

Turning nested lists into a data.frame with purrr

This post is about how to extract data from a json, turn it into a tibble and do some work with the result. I’m working with a download of personal data from polarsteps. A picture of Tokomaru Wharf (New Zealand) I was a month in New Zealand, birthplace of R and home to Hobbits. I logged my travel using the Polarsteps application. The app allows you to upload pictures and write stories about your travels. [Read More]