Practical R for Mass Communication and Journalism

About the author

Sharon Machlis is the author of Computerworld’sBeginner’s Guide to R, host of InfoWorld’sDo More With R video screencast series, admin for the R for Journalists Google Group, and is well known among Twitter users who follow the #rstats hashtag. She is Director of Editorial Data and Analytics at IDG Communications (parent company of Computerworld, InfoWorld, PC World and Macworld, among others) and a frequent speaker at data journalism and R conferences.

Summary

People working in the media deal with data constantly. Journalists who are interested in improving their data skills will find this book useful. The book will concentrate on teaching R and will not go into statistical details. Data sets and projects chosen for the book are especially important in the journalism market.

Product details

• Authors: Sharon Machlis
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138726918
• ISBN: 978-1-138-72691-8
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Media Studies, REFERENCE / General, MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, Press & journalism, News media and journalism, Probability & statistics, Programming & scripting languages: general, Probability and statistics, Programming and scripting languages: general