Author: hrbrmstr
Everything written by hrbrmstr.
Charting/Mapping the Scottish Vote with R (an rvest/dplyr/tidyr/TopoJSON/ggplot tutorial)
The BBC did a pretty good job live tracking the Scotland secession vote, but I really didn't like the color scheme they chose and decided to use the final tally site as the basis for another tutorial using the tools from the Hadleyverse…
An Alfred (OS X) Workflow for Weather Underground Personal Weather Station (PWS) Data
I've operated a Weather Underground Personal Weather Station (PWS) [KMEBERWI7] off-and-on (hardware issues notwithstanding) for as long as I can remember, and I thought it was about time to finally do an Alfred↔PWS mashup. My personal…
R version of "An exploratory technique for visualizing the distributions of 100 variables:"
Rick Wicklin (@RickWicklin) made a recent post to the SAS blog on An exploratory technique for visualizing the distributions of 100 variables. It's a very succinct tutorial on both the power of boxplots and how to make them in SAS (of…
OUT FROM THE DEPTHS! @GraniteSec LIVES!
Like GODZILLA rising to save Japan, GRANITESEC rises from dormancy (caused mostly by that sod @hrbrmstr) to fill your summer with food, fun & some other audience appropriate word that begins with an "F" to complete the alliteration…
New Gig!
Well, the proverbial cat is definitely out of the bag now. I'm moving on from the current gig to take a security data scientist position at Verizon Enterprise. The esteemed Wade Baker will be my new benevolent overlord and it probably…
Rforecastio 1.3.0 Update
Thanks to a comment suggestion, the Rforecastio package is now up to version 1.3.0 and has a new parameter which lets you specify which time conversion function you want to use. Details are up on…
Rforecastio 1.2.0 Bug-fix Update
Not even going to put an R category on this since I don't want to pollute R-bloggers with this tiny post, but I had to provide the option to let folks specify ssl.verifypeer=FALSE (so I made it a generic option to pass in any CURL…
Rforecastio Package Update (1.1.0)
I've bumped up the version number of Rforecastio (github) to 1.1.0. The new features…
Moving From system() calls to Rcpp Interfaces
Over on the Data Driven Security Blog there's a post on how to use Rcpp to interface with an external library (in this case ldns for DNS lookups). It builds on another post which uses system() to make a call to dig to lookup DNS TXT…
Getting Fit2Tcx Working on Mac OS X (10.9.x)
Andreas Diesner's #spiffy Fit2Tcx command-line utility is a lightweight way to convert Garmin/ANT FIT files to TCX for further…