Tag: General Election

Summarising data in R

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Summarising data

One of the most frequent tasks I do is summarising data using either proc sql or proc means with code like this:

proc means data=inputdata nway missing noprint;
    class var1 var2;
    var var3 var4;
    output out=outputdata (drop = _type_ _freq_) sum=;
run;

Given that I use it in SAS a lot I’m going to assume that I’ll use it in R a lot so it seems like the next sensible thing to learn.
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Creating a postcode file in R from different public data sources

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Following on from my previous post on creating a postcode file with the 2015 general election results I wanted to create a larger file with more variables. Some from the ONS lookups, others from different public datasets. The one I have added so far is the Office of Communications Broadband Coverage dataset from 2013.

The final dataset will contain for each postcode in the UK:

  • The 2015 general election result
  • The Westminster Election Constituency
  • The Easting and Northing coordinates
  • Census lookup areas
  • Rural Indicator
  • Broadband coverage data
  • Which (if any) national park the postcode is in

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