Opinion articles in The Chronicle

Application exercise

Part 1 - Data scraping

This will be done in the chronicle-scrape.R R script. Save the resulting data frame in the data folder.

Part 2 - Data analysis

Let’s start by loading the packages we will need:

library(tidyverse)
  • Your turn (1 minute): Load the data you saved into the data folder and name it chronicle.
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  • Your turn (3 minutes): Who are the most prolific authors of the 100 most recent opinion articles in The Chronicle?
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  • Demo: Draw a line plot of the number of opinion articles published per day in The Chronicle.
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  • Demo: What percent of the most recent 100 opinion articles in The Chronicle mention “climate” in their title?
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  • Your turn (5 minutes): What percent of the most recent 100 opinion articles in The Chronicle mention “climate” in their title or abstract?
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  • Time permitting: Come up with another question and try to answer it using the data.
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