Author: hrbrmstr
Everything written by hrbrmstr.
River Post Dissected
Good Stats, Bad Stats has a really good critique of my Mississippi River post that you should read (TL;DR: my graphs & analysis need…
SHODAN API in R (With Examples)
Folks may debate the merits of the SHODAN tool, but in my opinion it's a valuable resource, especially if used for "good". What is SHODAN? I think ThreatPost summed it up nicely…
How Low Can It [The Mississsippi River] Go?
I've heard quite a bit about the current problems with the Mississippi River and wanted to see for myself (with data) just how bad it…
Slopegraphs in R
If you even remotely follow this blog, you'll see that I'm kinda obsessed with slopegraphs . While I'm pretty happy with my Python implementation , I do quite a bit of data processing & data visualization in R these days and had a few free…
CVE Queries Right From Your Browser's Address Bar
I'm not sure why I never did this earlier, but a post on LifeHacker gave me an idea to add location bar quick search of CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures), no doubt due to their example on searching LifeHacker for…
Easier HTML Table-scraping For Scripts With Google Drive
We had our first, real, snowfall of the season in Maine today and that usually means school delays/closings. Our "local" station – @WCHS6 – has a Storm Center Closings page as well as an SMS notification service. I decided this morning…
The 'fing' Corollary
Back in 2011, @joshcorman posited "HD Moore's Law" which is…
Forbes Graph Makeover Contest Entry #1
Naomi Robbins is running a graph makeover challenge over at her Forbes blog and this is my entry for the B2B/B2C Traffic Sources one (click for larger…
Election Trackers Moved From Flash to HTML5
For those inclined to click, I was interviewed by Fahmida Rashid (@fahmiwrite) over at Sourceforge's HTML5 center a few weeks ago (right after the elections) due to my tweets on the use of HTML5 tech over Flash. Here's one of…
Speaking At RSA Conference 2013!
Earlier this week, @jayjacobs & I both received our acceptance notice for the talk we submitted to the RSA CFP! [W00t!] Now the hard part: crank out a compelling presentation in the next six weeks! If you're interested at all in doing more…