Time for a checkup on what I need to do/my thoughts on the two books.

I have taken a step back from completing the notes those last two months, because I felt overwhelmed by everything I had to do, life-wise. I need to finish the chapter on panel data analysis (and eventually the one on social network analysis), and I have to introduce the following chapters:

  • Datamining: text analysis, web scrapping, mapping.
  • Exploratory data analysis (analyse géométrique des données):
    • Correspondance analysis (analyse factorielle des correspondances),
    • Principal component analysis (analyse en composantes principales),
    • Multiple correspondance analysis (analyse des correspondances multiples),
    • Hierarchical clustering (classification ascendantes hiérarchique).
  • (I am considering it) Quick introduction to RMarkdown.

I really like bookdown’s layout, but I am growing annoyed with having to knit the entire book whenever I add a new chapter or when I change the name of a single header. If I do not, the referencing goes haywire.

Which is why I am currently rebuilding the main book on blogdown, with Wowchemy’s project documentation template and with the deployment handled by Netlify. This workflow’s advantage is that I can use .md files for simple text (Goldmark will then built the HTML files) and .Rmardkdown files for when I include some R codes. I knit those into Markdown files and that is it. No need to build the entire book every time.

I have not firmly settled on this method, I am only trying it out of curiosity.