Data Driven Security launches in February 2014. @jayjacobs & I have seen half of the book in PDF form so far and it’s almost unbelievable that this journey is almost over. We setup a live Amazon “sales rank” tracker over at the book’s web site and provided some Python and JavaScript code to show folks… Continue reading
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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 group posts via e-mail, then… Continue reading
Visualizing Risky Words
NOTE: Parts [2], [3] & [4] are also now up. Inspired by a post by @bfist who created the following word cloud in Ruby from VZ RISK INTSUM posts (visit the link or select the visualization to go to the post): I ♥ word clouds as much as anyone and usually run Presidential proclamations &… Continue reading
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 them: Folks, we are all really winners tonight. *No* major outlet used FLASH in ANY… Continue reading
More DIY ZeroAccess GeoIP Fun : jQuery/D3 Choropleths
In the spirit of the previous example this one shows you how to do a quick, country-based choropleth in D3/jQuery with some help from the command-line since not everyone is equipped to kick out some R and most folks I know are very handy at a terminal prompt. I took the ZeroAccessGeoIPs.csv file and ran… Continue reading
VERIS Community :: JSON vs XML
You may not be aware of the fact that the #spiffy Verizon Biz folk have some VERIS open source components, one of which is the XML schema for the “Vocabulary for Event Recording and Incident Sharing”. While most Java-backends will readily slurp up and spit back archaic XML data, the modern web is a JSON… Continue reading
Just Like The Federation
[@hrbrmstr starts working in javascript again] The Internets: What do you think? @hrbrmstr: It’s vile. The Internets: I know. It’s so bubbly and cloying and happy. @hrbrmstr: Just like the Federation. The Internets: And you know what’s really frightening? If you develop with it enough, you begin to like it. @hrbrmstr: It’s insidious. The Internets:… Continue reading
Slopegraphs in Python – Gratuitous Raphaël Animations
UPDATE: It seems my use of <script async> optimization for Raphaël busted the inline slopegraph generation. Will work on tweaking the example posts to wait for Raphaël to load when I get some time. So, I had to alter this to start after a user interaction. It loaded fine as a static, local page but… Continue reading