Author: hrbrmstr
Everything written by hrbrmstr.
One View of the Impact of the New Immigration Ban (+ freeing PDF data with tabulizer)
Dear Leader has made good on his campaign promise to "crack down" on immigration from "dangerous" countries. I wanted to both see one side of the impact of that decree — how many potential immigrants per year might this be impacting — and…
Coconut Pumpkin Pie with Coconut Dark Chocolate Ganache
I'm not about to tell you how to make your fav pie crust as that's a deeply personal subject. You'll need two of…
Create Parquet Files From R Data Frames With sergeant & Apache Drill (a.k.a. Make Parquet Files Great Again in R)
When you're in this larger-data world, parquet files are one of the core data storage formats. They're designed to be compact and are optimized for columnar operations. Unlike CSV, JSON files or even R Data files, it's not necessary to…
Workout Wednesday Redux (2017 Week 3)
I had started a "52 Vis" initiative back in 2016 to encourage folks to get practice making visualizations since that's the only way to get better at virtually anything. Life got crazy, 52 Vis fell to the wayside and now there are more…
The Devil's in the [Davos] Details — A quick look at this year's WEF Global Risks Report
It's Davos time again. Each year the World Economic Forum (WEF) gathers the global elite together to discuss how they're going to shape our collective future. WEF also releases their annual Global Risks Report at the same time. I read it…
Knit directly to jupyter notebooks from RStudio
Did you know that you can completely replace the "knitting" engine in R Markdown documents? Well, you…
2017-01 Authored Package Updates
The rest of the month is going to be super-hectic and it's unlikely I'll be able to do any more to help the push to CRAN 10K, so here's a breakdown of CRAN and GitHub new packages & package updates that I felt were worth raising awareness…
The Most Important Commodity in 2017 is Data
Despite being in cybersecurity nigh forever (a career that quickly turns one into a determined skeptic if you're doing your job correctly) I have often trusted various (not to be named) news sources, reports and data sources to provide…
Removing Personal Bias From Flu Severity Estimation (a.k.a. Misery Loves Data)
The family got hit pretty hard with the flu right as the Christmas festivities started and we were all pretty much bed-ridden zombies up until today (2017-01-02). When in the throes of a very bad ILI it's easy to imagine that you're a…
North Carolina's Neighborhood
When I saw the bombastic headline "North Carolina is no longer classified as a democracy" pop up in my RSS feeds today (article link: http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article122593759.html ) I knew it'd help feed polarization bear…