We have all seen photos and videos in the news about desperate people who try to migrate to Europe and have heard about the fatal incidents where hundreds of people died. However, watching the news provides us normally only a short glimpse on a single incident that was horrific enough to make it into the… Read More »
After I explained in the last post how to do pie charts with highcharter in R, the following will explain how to create similar pie charts with Google charts and Google sheets. Data preparation As a first step, I’ve created a sheet with the election data from the German Bundestag in 2013. The data can… Read More »
Introduction I will show you in this tutorial how to do a pie chart in R with the library highcharter. Highcharter is a R wrapper for Highcharts javascript charting libray and its modules. The result is a html pie chart with mouse over effect. I will use as data the election results from the German Bundestag… Read More »
Today, I want to build a simple web service that provides some answers in JSON format – a so called RESTful web service. Therefore, I am looking for Python frameworks that provide easy and fast solution for this. My search has led to the following Web Frameworks for Python: web.py (v0.38) Flask (v0.12) Django REST framework (v3.5.4) eve (0.7.2) CherryPy (v10.1.1)… Read More »
Do you have created and published your own Web App with Google Script? Then you probably want to observe what is happening at runtime. You can of course use the Logger class for logging. However, this class doesn’t provide you the possibility to route the logging in a custom destination, e.g. into an own log… Read More »
This post aims on a brief explanation of some Twitter metrics that have been published. While this is the first post regarding this topic in this blog, some general explanation will be made in advance to understand where the application of Twitter metrics is located in an evaluation based on Twitter. In general, you have… Read More »