Video Tutorials for An R Companion to Political Analysis, 3rd Edition

An R Companion to Political Analysis, 3rd Edition Video Tutorials: Creating and Transforming Variables

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This page features video tutorials and resources to help you do political analysis with R. We created this page, and related pages, to supplement our R Companion to Political Analysis. Where possible, we leverage existing videos, but have created a number of custom online code demonstrations for our textbook.

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Watch and Learn: Creating and Transforming Variables


Create an ordinal level variable by transforming interval-level variable.


Create an ordinal level variable with equal-size groups from interval-level variable.


Transformations (Logarithms, Scaling, Standardizing)
From Adam Petrie (10:08)

Watch and Learn: Creating and Transforming Variables


Create an ordinal level variable by transforming interval-level variable.


Create an ordinal level variable with equal-size groups from interval-level variable.

Watch and Learn: Creating and Transforming Variables


Create an ordinal level variable by transforming interval-level variable.

Additional Resources

Show Me Shiney
A gallery of interactive R web apps.

R Bloggers
Many useful articles, frequently updated.

Reproducible Data Treatment with R
Web course material from Colin Bousige

Live R Code Demos
Sample uses of the R Statistics Program for political science research. From Barry Edwards, Political Science Data.

R Package Documentation
A comprehensive index of R packages and documentation, tools to run code online and embed samples.

Additional Resources

Show Me Shiney
A gallery of interactive R web apps.

R Bloggers
Many useful articles, frequently updated.

Reproducible Data Treatment with R
Web course material from Colin Bousige

Additional Resources

Show Me Shiney
A gallery of interactive R web apps.