Mike Denly

Mike Denly

Assistant Professor at Texas A&M, focusing on external validity and the political economy of development—especially, corruption, foreign aid, and natural resources. Avid soccer and tennis player.

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R

Making Merges Go Through Using tidylog and anti_join

3 minute read

Published:

Packages in the tidyverse suite, including dplyr, represent amazing contributions data science. One thing that constantly vexed me, though, was the inability of dplyr’s merge functions–left_join, full_join, etc.– to actually let you know if the merges went through without having to do extra work. It just seemed so cumbersome to have to individually inspect each data frame after each merge. Well, thankfully, that is no longer necessary due to tidylog.

Removing Accents in R

4 minute read

Published:

R is a fantastic open-source program that allows users to do just about anything, but sometimes the program requires some tricks to accomplish seemingly simple tasks. Removing accents is a case in point, so I’d like to provide everyone with some guidance to overcome some of the thornier accent removal issues.

Balancing Panel Data and Removing Duplicate Unique IDs

11 minute read

Published:

Properly balancing panel data and removing duplicate unique identifiers is a recurring challenge for students in my Research Practicum course. Accordingly, I thought it would be helpful to provide an example for everyone.

Hello, World/Importing Data in R

less than 1 minute read

Published:

Hello, world! I have finally figured out GitHub and how to make a free website with Jekyll. It’s a great day!

anti_join

Making Merges Go Through Using tidylog and anti_join

3 minute read

Published:

Packages in the tidyverse suite, including dplyr, represent amazing contributions data science. One thing that constantly vexed me, though, was the inability of dplyr’s merge functions–left_join, full_join, etc.– to actually let you know if the merges went through without having to do extra work. It just seemed so cumbersome to have to individually inspect each data frame after each merge. Well, thankfully, that is no longer necessary due to tidylog.

balanced panel

Balancing Panel Data and Removing Duplicate Unique IDs

11 minute read

Published:

Properly balancing panel data and removing duplicate unique identifiers is a recurring challenge for students in my Research Practicum course. Accordingly, I thought it would be helpful to provide an example for everyone.

duplicate couples

Balancing Panel Data and Removing Duplicate Unique IDs

11 minute read

Published:

Properly balancing panel data and removing duplicate unique identifiers is a recurring challenge for students in my Research Practicum course. Accordingly, I thought it would be helpful to provide an example for everyone.

importing data

Hello, World/Importing Data in R

less than 1 minute read

Published:

Hello, world! I have finally figured out GitHub and how to make a free website with Jekyll. It’s a great day!

joining

Making Merges Go Through Using tidylog and anti_join

3 minute read

Published:

Packages in the tidyverse suite, including dplyr, represent amazing contributions data science. One thing that constantly vexed me, though, was the inability of dplyr’s merge functions–left_join, full_join, etc.– to actually let you know if the merges went through without having to do extra work. It just seemed so cumbersome to have to individually inspect each data frame after each merge. Well, thankfully, that is no longer necessary due to tidylog.

merging

Making Merges Go Through Using tidylog and anti_join

3 minute read

Published:

Packages in the tidyverse suite, including dplyr, represent amazing contributions data science. One thing that constantly vexed me, though, was the inability of dplyr’s merge functions–left_join, full_join, etc.– to actually let you know if the merges went through without having to do extra work. It just seemed so cumbersome to have to individually inspect each data frame after each merge. Well, thankfully, that is no longer necessary due to tidylog.

panel data

Balancing Panel Data and Removing Duplicate Unique IDs

11 minute read

Published:

Properly balancing panel data and removing duplicate unique identifiers is a recurring challenge for students in my Research Practicum course. Accordingly, I thought it would be helpful to provide an example for everyone.

removing accents

Removing Accents in R

4 minute read

Published:

R is a fantastic open-source program that allows users to do just about anything, but sometimes the program requires some tricks to accomplish seemingly simple tasks. Removing accents is a case in point, so I’d like to provide everyone with some guidance to overcome some of the thornier accent removal issues.

rio package

Hello, World/Importing Data in R

less than 1 minute read

Published:

Hello, world! I have finally figured out GitHub and how to make a free website with Jekyll. It’s a great day!

tidylog

Making Merges Go Through Using tidylog and anti_join

3 minute read

Published:

Packages in the tidyverse suite, including dplyr, represent amazing contributions data science. One thing that constantly vexed me, though, was the inability of dplyr’s merge functions–left_join, full_join, etc.– to actually let you know if the merges went through without having to do extra work. It just seemed so cumbersome to have to individually inspect each data frame after each merge. Well, thankfully, that is no longer necessary due to tidylog.