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Download Global Administrative Areas as RData files

Global Administrative Areas (GADM) is a spatial database of the location of the world’s administrative areas. Files are provided as Google Earth KMZ, shapefiles (.shp), ESRI geodatabase and as I was exited to see: as .RData files.

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Scraping New York Times Articles with R

This is a very simple, quick and dirty attempt to make use of the NYT Articles API from within R.

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R on Xgrid via Gridstuffer

This procedure was used to run redistricting simulations with an R module called BARD (Better Automated ReDistricting). Since the same code needed to be run repeatedly for 2-200 seats and for all US states, a parallel computing environment was used.

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