Author: hrbrmstr
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Fear of WaPo Using Bad Pie Charts Has Increased Since Last Year
I woke up this morning to a headline story from the Washington Post on "Americans are twice as willing to distance Christian extremists from their religion as Muslims". This post is not about the content of the headline or story. It is…
Moving the Shield to a new home
This week (Thanksgiving-ish, 2015) I start a new adventure at Rapid7! You can read more about why over at the official…
An OS X R Task Runner for—and a Mini-R-centric review of—Microsoft's Visual Studio Code Editor
Microsoft's newfound desire to make themselves desirable to the hipster development community has caused them to make many things open and/or free of late. One of these manifestations is Visual Studio Code, an Atom-ish editor for us code…
Beware of sideloading f.lux for iOS from files obtained on sharing/torrent sites
Apple made the @justgetflux folks remove their iOS sideloaded app due to the use of private APIs (which are a violation of the Apple Developer agreement). The ZIP archive has been pulled from their site (and it really has,…
Using MonetDB[Lite] with real-world CSV files
MonetDBLite (for R) was announced/released today and, while the examples they provide are compelling there's a "gotcha" for potential new folks using SQL in general and SQL + MonetDB + R together. The toy example on the site shows dumping…
Visualizing Survey Data : Comparison Between Observations
Cybersecurity is a domain that really likes surveys, or at the very least it has many folks within it that like to conduct and report on surveys. One recent survey on threat intelligence is in it's second year, so it sets about comparing…
An Ephemeral Update to daylight()
This occurrence of the bi-annual corruption of the space-time continuum (i.e. changing to/from standard/daylight time) in the U.S. caused me to make a slight change to the code from an older post. The daylight() function now auto-discovers…
Less Drama, More Encoding
Junk Charts adeptly noted and fixed this excessively stylized chart from the WSJ this…
Installing R on OS X - "100% Homebrew Edition"
In a previous post I provided "mouse-heavy" instructions for getting R running on your Mac. A few of the comments suggested that an "all Homebrew" solution may be preferable for some folks. Now, there are issues with this since getting…
Installing R on OS X
NOTE: The comments are a must read for this. Some excellent additional advice and "gotchas" by some super-helpful…