I was a bit annoyed by the error when loading a dataset that contains multi-byte characters. R basically just chokes on them. I have not really understood the intricacies of this, but it was basically just an annoyance and since I did not really use these characters in the strings containing them, I just wanted to remove them.
The easiest solution was to use Vim with the following search and replace:
s/[\x80-\xFF]//g
Dear Scott, yes that type of data would be amazing and I quite enjoy what you did with mapbox.
I gave it another go,
http://freigeist.devmag.net/economics/602-microfinance-map-of-india-another-go.html
This is great! Branch-level data would be better, but this is at least a start. CMF and MFIN also have maps on their sites, which could yield more useful information. We also did something similar for Nigeria recently, maybe you will find that useful: http://www.themix.org/publications/mix-microfinance-world/2011/08/mapping-nigerian-microfinance-banks
For what it’s worth, this was a helpful tutorial on getting address info from APIs that we’ve used: http://support.mapbox.com/kb/tilemill/converting-addresses-in-spreadsheets-to-custom-maps-in-tilemill
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Moin…ist wahrscheinlich schon zu spät, aber ja — nur der Mathe Teil ist wirklich wichtig, wenn es bei dir um eine Bewerbung für einen PhD oder anderen post-graduate Kurs in Economics geht. In der Regel fordern die Universitäten ja ohnehin noch einen weiteren Sprachnachweis.
Viel Erfolg.
Hi,
du erähnst eine Vermutung (“beim GRE zählt wohl allein der Matheteil”) in deinem obrigen Post. Kannst du diese mittlerweile bestätigen?
Bin auch sehr an einem Stuium in England interessiert, das Problem ist meines Erachtens nur die verbal-section beim GRE, da diese für einen Ausländer doch nur sehr schwierig zu schaffen ist.
Vielen Dank für deine Antwort im Voraus.
Beste Grüße
Timo
Great!
Thank you, that wasreally interesting. Actually,I was born in Moscow in 1974 but my mother and I fled the country and settled here to Britain. Honestly, I didnt really care much about my russian history until my mother died recently, now I’ve been trying to find out as much as I possibly can. Seemed like food was as good a place as any to start from! You dont generally hear much about russian cooking do you? Anyway, I found a lot of russian recipes here that your readers might be interested in .
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