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This blog is for people just starting out with their R journey. I’ll address beginner problems, simplifying some concepts in R programming.

Working with OSM history files in R

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We’re trying to find POIs throughout the history of OSM. Luckily, OSM does track when they are added. Only drawback? We’re working with huuuuuuge files. Let’s see how we can…
Jul 3, 2025

Scraping wikipedia

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Every now and then, we want to get some data from the wild – e.g., from Wikipedia articles. We’ll see two data types here:
May 28, 2025
Sarah Listabarth

Sending automated emails

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I recently needed to send out an email to many recipients, with only slight changes in the text. And I figured – this must be something we can do with R, right?
Feb 12, 2025
Sarah Listabarth

Creating a locator map with ggplot2

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Sometimes I visualize data on a country that not everyone is familiar with. In this case, a locator map can be helpful: It shows where in the world my country of interest…
Feb 2, 2025
Sarah Listabarth

Opening .kmz files

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When working with spatial data, one thing I’ve noticed is: there’s a lot of obscure data formats. And with every one of them, it takes me a while to figure out how to handle…
May 27, 2024
Sarah Listabarth

Reading a csv file with 2-row column names

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Sometimes, csv files have 2-row column names. I create a function to deal with this.

May 5, 2024
Sarah Listabarth

Opening .nc files

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When working with raster data, one thing I’ve noticed is: there’s a lot of obscure data formats. And with every one of them, it takes me a while to figure out how to handle…
Feb 24, 2024
Sarah Listabarth

Creating a map with ggplot2

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In this post, I create a basic world map – specifically, a Choropleth map. That means we colour the countries by a specific variable.
Jan 4, 2024
Sarah Listabarth

Creating a basic regression table with modelsummary

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In this post, we have a look at creating a basic regression table with modelsummary and fixest.
Nov 28, 2023
Sarah Listabarth
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