Author: hrbrmstr
Everything written by hrbrmstr.
Pipes (%>%) Everywhere
An R user asked a question regarding whether it's possible to have the RStudio pipe ( %>% ) shortcut ( Cmd-Shift-M ) available in other macOS applications. If you're using Alfred then you can use this workflow for said task (IIRC this…
sergeant : An R Boot Camp for Apache Drill
I recently mentioned that I've been working on a development version of an Apache Drill R package called sergeant . Here's a lifted "TLDR" on…
Package update: longurl 0.3.0 is hitting CRAN mirrors
The longurl package has been updated to version 0.3.0 as a result of a bug report noting that the URL expansion API it was using went pay-for-use. Since this was the second time a short URL expansion service either went belly-up or had…
Minding the zoo[keeper] with R
I've been drafting a new R package — sergeant — to work with Apache Drill and have found it much easier to manage having Drill operating in a single node cluster vs drill-embedded mode (esp when I need to add a couple more nodes for…
The Actual, Über, Ultimate Fake News List
It is surprisingly shorter (or longer if you grok regular expressions) than you think it might be: http[s]://.…
Survey on Data Science In Two Year Colleges
The ASA (American Statistical Association) has been working in collaboration with the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) on developing a data science curriculum for Two Year Colleges. Part of this development is the need to…
Interacting With Amazon Athena from R
This is a short post for those looking to test out Amazon Athena with…
Jumping on the "Banned" Wagon
Where's the ACLU? They'd be right there if this was an alt-right'er asking to ban books with salacious content they deem (rightly or wrongly) "inappropriate" or "harmful" to teens. I hope they step up and fight the fight the good fight…
The Most Important Hashtag for 2017
When something pops up in the news, on Twitter, Facebook or even (ugh) Gab claiming or teasing findings based on data I believe it's more important than ever to reply with some polite text and a #showmethedata hashtag. We desperately…
The Devil is in the Details
The \first public informational video\ from the PEOTUS didn't add a full transcript of the video to the web site and did not provide (at least as of 0700 EST on 2016-11-22) their own text annotations/captions to the…