Medical Sociology on Wheels

Comments on Health Beliefs, Risk, Mitigation, and Sociological Research Methods, a Disabled Perspective

Category: Data Analysis and Visualization for Beginners

Combining Dataframes and Manipulating Variables with dplyr in R

You can add columns to dataframes with the dplyr “mutate” function. I have five dataframes, and I want to combine them, but I also want to be able to identify the cases (rows) by query in my new dataframe. Before I combine the five dataframes, I will add a new variable

April 10, 2023
Analyzing Tweets: A Tidy Approach to Basic Analyses in R with Quanteda and ggplot2

This tutorial walks through the steps of executing basic word frequency analyses on text data that have already been prepared for analysis. The tutorial demonstrates a tidy approach using Quanteda and ggplot2 to analyze tweets collected with the twitteR package in R.

March 16, 2023
Downloading and Preparing Tweets for Analysis with the twitteR package in R

twitteR query example 03/13/2023 In This Tutorial: 1 These packages are useful for collecting Twitter data. The following example will only use tidyverse and twitteR. 2 To follow along starting with Twitter data collection, you will need the following: 3 Step 1: Setup the connection to Twitter through your app using the “twitteR” package 4…

March 14, 2023
COVID-19 Google Topic Trends, with Widgets

I began with a simple exploration of the trends for the query (keyword) “covid” between January 1, 2020, and March 9, 2023, capturing a majority of the pandemic leading up to mid-March 2023.

March 9, 2023
Exploring Google Search Trends Over Time and by Country Using the GtrendsR Package [R, via RStudio]

The “gtrends” package allows you to query search hits for up to 5 keywords. Let’s look at search hits for terms related to disability and chronic illness.

February 24, 2023