Visualizing the Clinton Email Network in R by Bob Rudis.
From the post:
This isn’t a post about politics. I do have opinions about the now infamous e-mail server (which will no doubt come out here), but when the WSJ folks made it possible to search the Clinton email releases I though it would be fun to get the data into R to show how well the
igraphandggnetworkpackages could work together, and also show how to usesvgPanZoomto make it a bit easier to poke around the resulting hairball network.NOTE: There are a couple “Assignment” blocks in here. My Elements of Data Science students are no doubt following the blog by now so those are meant for you 🙂 Other intrepid readers can ignore them.
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A great walk through on importing, analyzing, and visualizing any email archive, not just Hillary’s.
You will quickly find that “…connecting the dots…” isn’t as useful as the intelligence community would have you believe.
Yes, yes! There is a call to Papa John’s! Oh, that’s not a code name, that’s a pizza place. (Even suspected terrorists have to eat.)
Great to have the dots. Great to have connections. Not so great if that is all that you have.
I found a number of other interesting posts at Bob’s blog: http://rud.is/b/.
Including: Dairy-free Parker House Rolls! I bake fairly often so am susceptible to this sort of posting. Looks very good!