How did Axios rectangle Trump's PDF schedule? A try with R
Last week, Axios published a very interesting piece reporting on
Trump’s private schedule thanks to an insider’s
leak.
The headlines all were about Trump’s spending more than 60% of his time
in “executive time” which admittedly was indeed the most important
aspect of the story. I, however, also got curious about Axios’ work to
go from the PDF schedules to the spreadsheet they made public. In this
post, I’ll have a got at using rOpenSci’s Jeroen Ooms’ pdftools
package and some data-wrangling stubborness of mine to try and rectangle
Trump’s PDF schedules.