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Step By Step: How to Create an ‘R’ Shiny App

July 14, 2017 / Comments Off on Step By Step: How to Create an ‘R’ Shiny App

In a previous Step By Step by my fellow analyst James Midkiff, readers were introduced to the statistical software ‘R’, and how ESI increasingly uses this resource for analyses. In this week’s post I build on what James introduced and show readers how to implement a Shiny App tool with ‘R’. As Present Value readers […]

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Step By Step: A Guide to How ESI Uses ESRI

March 24, 2017 / Comments Off on Step By Step: A Guide to How ESI Uses ESRI

The first edition of the Step-by-Step series demonstrated how ESI uses R for data manipulation and graphing. This step in the series will show you one for economic analyses and forecasts. ESRI Business Analyst is an extremely powerful tool that allows us to gather data on geographical areas such as demographics, lifestyle choices and consumer expenditures. To demonstrate the usefulness […]

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