Category: Python
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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…
Extracting OSE Firewall Alert Data From IMAP (Gmail) Mail To CSV With Python
I played around with OSE Firewall for WordPress for a couple days to see if it was worth switching to from the plugin I was previously using. It's definitely not as full featured and I didn't see any WP database extensions where it kept a…
Slopegraphs in Python – Failed States Index (Part 1)
The Fund For Peace (FFP) and Foreign Policy jointly released the 2012 version of the "failed states index" (FSI). From the FFP site, the…
Slopegraphs in Python – Gratuitous Raphaël Animations
So, I had to alter this to start after a user interaction. It loaded fine as a static, local page but seems to get a bit wonky embedded in a complex page. I also see some artifacts in Chrome but not in Safari. Still, not a bad foray into…
Slopegraphs in Python – Formatting Tweaks
There were enough eye-catching glitches in the experimental javascript support and the ugly large-number display in the spam example post that I felt compelled to make a couple formatting tweaks in the code. I also didn't have time to do…
Slopegraphs in Python – Experimental Raphaël Support
In preparation for the upcoming 1.0 release and with the hopes of laying a foundation for more interactive slopegraphs, I threw together some rudimentary output support over lunch today for Raphaël , which means that all you have to do is…
Slopegraphs in Python – Log Scales & Spam Data Analysis
Given the focus on actual development of the PySlopegraph tool in most of the blog posts of late, folks may be wondering why an infosec/inforisk guy is obsessing so much on a tool and not talking security. Besides the fixation on filling a…
Slopegraphs in Python – Exploring Binning/Rounding
One of the last items for the 1.0 release is support for multiple columns of data. That will require some additional refactoring, so I've been procrastinating by exploring the recent "fudging" discovery . Despite claims to the contrary on…
Slopegraphs in Python – Slope Colors
As the codebase gets closer to the 1.0 stretch we now have the addition of slope colors for when values go up/down or remain constant between points. The code still only handles two columns of data, but the intent is for each segment to…
Slopegraphs in Python – More Output Tweaks
The best way to explain this release will be to walk you through an updated configuration…