Author: hrbrmstr
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Open Campgrounds In Maine During The Stupid Shutdown
Don't let the morons in Congress stop you from visiting our fair state during this beautiful, colorful autumn season. Below is a Google Maps view of known, open campgrounds that will let you experience the best our state has to offer this…
Visualizing "ObamaCare-related" Job Cuts
The spreadsheet is organized by date and lists each state where the jobs were impacted along with the employer , employer type (public/private), reason and number of jobs impacted (if available). They also have links to news stories…
Scraping Content From Google Groups
I was helping a friend out who wanted to build a word cloud from the text in Google Groups posts. If you've made any efforts to try to get content out of Google Groups you know that the only way to do so is to ensure you subscribe to the…
Animated IRL Pirate Attacks In R
Avast me hearRties! (ok, enough of the pirate speak in a blog…
Christian Science Monitor Text Layout (Single Page Full Article View)
As I was about to " buffer " a reference to a CSM article on "cyber war" (below), I paused to look for a "print view" or some other icon that would let me show the whole article as a single page vs the annoying multi-page layout view they…
Send Mac OS Notifications From RStudio *Server*! (via Growl)
Having received a couple follow-ups to the OS X notifications on RStudio Desktop for the Mac post, I was determined to find a quick hack to get remote notifications to OS X working from (at least) RStudio Server instances running on the…
Rforecastio Update
Thanks to a comment, I tweaked the data retrieval to ignore SSL cert errors. You can change that tweak back if you go through the pain of updating the SSL libraries on your Windows boxes (it doesn't seem to be an issue on OS…
Send Mac OS Notifications From R
The data retrieval and computation operations are taking longer and longer as we start cranking through more security data and I'll often let tasks run in the background whilst performing more mundane tasks or wasting time on Twitter. For…
Rforecastio - Simple R Package To Access forecast.io Weather Data
It doesn't get much better for me than when I can combine R and weather data in new ways. I've got something brewing with my Nest thermostat and needed to get some current wx readings plus forecast data. I could have chosen a number of…
nizdos - Nest Thermometer Notifications And Data Logging In Python
I've had a Nest thermometer for a while now and it's been an overall positive experience. It's given me more visibility into our heating/cooling system usage, patterns and preferences; plus, it actually saved us money last…