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fedickinson / Scraping_The_Partisan_Divide.ipynb
Created June 18, 2018 13:53
Scraping the Partisan Divide: Sentiment, Text, & Network Analysis of an online political discussion forum.
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fedickinson / forum_spider.py
Created June 17, 2018 21:15
Scraping the Partisan Divide: My Scrapy Spider
# Defined Number of Threads -> Multiple Pages per Thread -> Multiple posts per page
from scrapy import Spider, Request
from forum.items import ForumItem
import re
class ForumSpider(Spider):
name = "forum_spider"
allowed_url = ['https://liberalforum.net']
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fedickinson / partyMisalignment_global
Last active June 17, 2018 20:47
R Shiny App - Using Census API and Congressional District voting to investigate demographic breakdown of 2016 election - https://franklindickinson.shinyapps.io/election_analyzer_2016/
# Load Base Packages ####
# install.packages("shiny")
# install.packages("tidyverse")
#install.packages("googleVis")
library(shiny)