Week 2: NYT API

An introduction to text preprocessing and the New York Times article API.

By the end of this week, you will be able to:

Make API calls in R — constructing URLs with query parameters and authenticating with an API key
Conduct exploratory data analysis — visualizing temporal patterns in media coverage using ggplot2
Apply string manipulation — cleaning strings using functions like str* and gsub()
Use stop word dictionaries — removing common uninformative words from text data to prepare it for analysis

Lecture Materials

🖥 Slide deck from lecture

💻 R scripts used during class:

Due: April 14 @ 11:59 pm

Complete the assignment laid out in Lab1. Submit your .Rmd and knitted document (HTML or PDF) to Canvas.