Author: hrbrmstr
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Shuttering Pies With Retiring Stores
It's pretty hard to compare store-to-store, even though it is fairly clear which ones are going-going-gone. If we want to see the relative percentage of each store closing and also want to see how they stack up against each other, then…
When Homoglyphs Attack! Generating Phishing Domain Names with R
It's likely you've seen the news regarding yet-another researcher showing off a phishing domain attack. The technique is pretty…
Come Fly With Me (well, not really) — Comparing Involuntary Disembarking Rates Across U.S. Airlines in R
By now, word of the forcible deplanement of a medical professional by United has reached even the remotest of outposts in the #rstats universe. Since the news brought this practice to global attention, I found some aggregate U.S. Gov data…
R⁶ — RStudio Server Client? Make An App For That!
RStudio is a great way to work through analyses tasks, and I suspect most folks use the "desktop" version of the product on their local…
Simple Offline Airport Wi-Fi Tracker in R
The Google Maps interface is a bit meh and the "formatted" data is also a bit meh but the data is useful when travelling (NOTE: always use a VPN in airports on both your mobile devices and…
Superclassing to R⁶
To avoid "branding" confusion with R⁴ I'm superclassing it to R⁶ and encouraging others in the R community to don the moniker and do their own small, focused posts on topics that would help the R community learn things. Feel free to use R⁶…
R⁶ — Snow Day Facets
Back in 2014 I blogged about first snowfall dates for a given U.S. state. It's April 1, 2017 and we're slated to get 12-18" of snow up here in Maine and @mrshrbrmstr asked how often this — snow in May — has occurred near…
All-in on R⁶ : Progress [bars] on first post
@eddelbuettel's idea is a good one. (it's a quick read…jump there and come back). We'll avoid confusion and call it R⁶ over here. Feel free to don the…
Exploring 2017 Retail Store Closings with R
A story about one of the retail chains (J.C. Penny) releasing their list of stores closing in 2017 crossed paths with my Feedly reading list today and jogged my memory that there were a number of chains closing many of their doors this…
Think Twice Before Using Ohmconnect
I listen to @NPR throughout the day (on most days) and a story on Ohmconnect piqued my interest (it aired 5 days prior to this post). The TLDR on Ohmconnect is that it ostensibly helps you save energy by making you more aware of…