Author: hrbrmstr
Everything written by hrbrmstr.
Mapping the March 2014 California Earthquake with ggmap
I had no intention to blog this, but @jayjacobs convinced me otherwise. I was curious about the recent (end of March, 2014) California earthquake "storm" and did a quick plot for "fun" and personal use using…
Guardian Words: Visualized
Andy Kirk (@visualisingdata) & Lynn Cherny (@arnicas) tweeted about the Guardian Word Count service/archive site, lamenting the lack of…
Using Twitter as a Data Source For Monitoring Password Dumps
I shot a quick post over at the Data Driven Security blog explaining how to separate Twitter data gathering from R code via the Ruby t (github repo) command. Using t frees R code from having to be a Twitter processor and lets the analyst…
One More (Yet-another?) Olympic Medal Live-tracking Shiny App
The code for the app is in this gist. It is unsurprisingly just like some spiffy other code you've seen apart from my aesthetic choices (Sochi blue! lines+dots! and, current rankings next to country…
Live Google Spreadsheet For Keeping Track Of Sochi Medals
The "medals" R post by TRInker and re-blogged by Revolutions were both spiffy and a live example why there's no point in not publishing raw…
Data Driven Security Roundup: betaPERT, Shiny, Honeypots, Passwords & Reproducible Research
Jay Jacobs (@jayjacobs)—my co-author of the soon-to-be-released book Data-Driven Security—& I have been hard at work over at the book's sister-blog cranking out code to help security domain experts delve into the dark art of data…
Data-Driven Security (The Book) Update #ShamelessSelfPromotion
Here's the list of links to e-tailers (man, I hate that term) who have it available for the various e-readers out…
Lies, Damn Lies, "Data Journalism" and Charts That Don't Start at 0
This tweet by @moorehn (who usually is a superb economic journalist) really bugged…
Change The Default "Shell..." Action In RStudio for OS X
RStudio is my R development environment of choice and I work primarily on/in Mac OS X. While it's great that Apple provides a built-in Terminal application, I prefer to use iTerm 2 when I need to do work at a shell. The fine folks at…
Announcing The Launch Of The Data Driven Security [Blog|Podcast]
While you're waiting for the book by @jayjacobs & @hrbrmstr to hit the shelves, why not head on over to the inaugural post of the Data Driven Security Blog & give a listen to the first episode of the Data Driven Security…