SPARQL Package for R: Linked Open Piracy Tutorial

This tutorial shows how to do a visual analysis and basic statistical analysis of the data in the Linked Open Piracy data set. It makes use of the SPARQL Package for R and the ggmap package. The SPARQL Package allows one to directly import results of SPARQL SELECT queries into the statistical environment of R as a data frame, allowing one to directly perform statistical analysis on datasets from the web.

URL: http://linkedscience.org/tools/sparql-package-for-r/linked-open-piracy-tutorial/
Keywords: R (programming language), Linked Open Data (LOD), Statistical analysis, Data visualization
Author: van Hage, Willem Robert
Publisher: COMBINE project
Language: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng
Time required: P1H
Educational use: instruction
Educational audience: student
Interactivity type: mixed

Competencies

Understands how the pattern matching of SPARQL queries can be expressed using functionally equivalent constructs in RDF programming libraries.
- Uses RDF libraries to process various types of SPARQL query result.
- Uses utilities and convenience functions the provide shortcuts for frequently used patterns, such as matching the multiple label properties used in real data.
Uses publicly available tools to visualize data.

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SPARQL Package for R: Linked Open Piracy Tutorial