Drake's Plan

• 2019/12/02
• 1 min read

I gave a talk on the drake package for workflow management to the wonderful RLadies of NYC.

In it, we hit the Twitter API to get NYCFireWire tweets, clean the raw tweet data, send the resulting addresses to the Google Maps API for geocoding, and then plot where fires happen on a map of New York.

Links!

• Repo
• Slides
• Live coding walkthrough

Many thanks to drake’s creator and maintainer Will Landau.

☝️ Also a drake!