Category: Data Analysis
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cdcfluview - On The Way to "CRAN 7K"
I like to turn coincidence into convergence whenever possible. This weekend, a user of \cdcfluview\ had a question that caused me to notice a difference in behaviour between the package was interacting with CDC FluView API, so I updated…
Scraping jQuery DataTable Programmatic JSON with R
School of Data had a recent post how to copy "every item" from a multi-page list. While their post did provide a neat hack, their "words of warning" are definitely missing some items and the overall methodology can be improved upon with…
More Airline Crashes via the Hadleyverse
I saw a fly-by \#rstats\ mention of more airplane accident data on -- of all places -- LinkedIn (email) today which took me to a \GitHub repo\ by @philjette. It seems there's a \web site\ (run by what seems to be a single human) that…
Visualizing Historical & Most-likely First Snowfall Dates for U.S. Regions
The impending arrival of the first real snowfall of the year in my part of Maine got me curious about what the most likely "first snow" dates are for my region. The U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) maintains historical daily…
Spending Seized Assets - A State-by-State Per-capita Comparison in R
The Washingon Post did another great story+vis, this time on states Spending seized…
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…
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…
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…