I’ve had a Nest thermometer for a while now and it’s been an overall positive experience. It’s given me more visibility into our heating/cooling system usage, patterns and preferences; plus, it actually saved us money last winter. We try to avoid running the A/C during the summer, and it would have been really helpful if… Continue reading
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Secure360 (@Secure360) Data Analysis & Visualization Talk Resources #Sec360
Many thanks to all who attended the talk @jayjacobs & I gave at @Secure360 on Wednesday, May 15, 2013. As promised, here are the [slides](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43553/Secure360-2013.pdf). We’ve enumerated quite a bit of non-slide-but-in-presentation information that we wanted to aggregate into a blog post so you can vi[sz] along at home. If you need more of a… Continue reading
My Picks From #PyCon2013
While you can (and should) view [all the presentations](https://speakerdeck.com/pyconslides) from #PyCon2013, here are my picks for the ones that interested me the most, as they focus on scaling, mapping, automation (both web & electronics) and data analysis: – [Chef: Why you should automate your web infrastructure](https://speakerdeck.com/pyconslides/chef-why-you-should-automate-your-web-infrastructure-by-kate-heddleston) by Kate Heddleston – [Messaging at Scale at Instagram](https://speakerdeck.com/pyconslides/messaging-at-scale-at-instagram-by-rick-branson)… Continue reading
Get an R Data Frame from a MongoDB Query
There’s a good FAQ on how to do the MongoDB query -> R data frame but I wanted to post a more complete example that included the database connection and query setup since I suspect there are folks new to Mongo who would appreciate the end-to-end view. The code is fully annotated with comments, and… Continue reading