Our five year old is in Grade 1 this year obviously everyoen’s public school experience in Ontario has been severely impacted in the last ywo years because of the pandemic. It seemed like one issue that was debated during the debate was whether private schools did a better job offering students smaller classes, sensitive to public health precautions while keeping kids in classrooms. I don’t know whether that’s true or not.
I’ve noticed that Statistics Canada seems to lag other national statistical agencies in making their data available in user friendly formats.
There's that Can't-Do-Won't-Do spirit @StatCan_eng is famous for.
Is there another statistics agency whose suggestion for obtaining annual GDP data - the most-used economic indicator - is to do it yourself? https://t.co/fl7DqpvTkl
— Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon) January 15, 2019 In my own personal experience, it has been a difficult to get what was seemingly very basic information.
Now that August is upon us, academics around the world are sweating a little bit about getting back to the grind of teaching.
I wanted to introduce a new R package I’ve developed that does precisely one thing: it creates a text file that contains the days and dates of the classes you’ll be teaching.
Basically I had the idea for this package one late night when I was working on the syllabus for one of the first classes I ever taught.
The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party is putting on quite a show these days. As a side project, a colleague and I decided to capture the tweets to the dominant hashtags #pcpo and #pcpoldr, for history’s sake. Neither of us are experts at sentiment analysis; but we have done a little bit and this is just too juicy.
One note: I made a first stab at getting tweets using the twitteR package; but this proved to be less than optimal because it does not download full tweets with more than 140 characters.
I am an avid user of the statistical software [R](https://cran.r-project.org/) for all my quantitative research projects.