About Robert

Robert Vesco

I'm doctoral student at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.

I want people to pursue opportunities and happiness and I believe entrepreneurship is one important way people can do that.

My research interests include understanding (a) why some areas are more entrepreneurial than others, (b) what drives people to pursue entrepreneurship, and (c) how can policies foster effective and sustainable entrepreneurship.

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Using R to Extract Excel/csv File of Citation Data from Zotero

Zotero is a handy piece of software used to manage citations. However, one of issues I have with it is that there is no convenient way to export citation into excel. There are some folks that have put together some solutions here, here, and here, but they haven't been able to accomplish what I needed. [...]

Webscraping with R

I'll be giving a talk at the DC Meetup group on "Webscraping with R" on June 24.

If you're interested in learning more about R or webscraping in general come join us.

http://www.meetup.com/R-users-DC/