Category: R
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The Evolution of Data Literacy at the U.S. Department of Energy + Finding Power Grid Cyber Attacks in a Data Haystack
I was chatting with some cyber-mates at a recent event and the topic of cyber attacks on the U.S. power-grid came up (as it often does these days). The conversation was brief, but the topic made its way into active memory and resurfaced…
Driving Drill Dynamically with Docker and Updating Storage Configurations On-the-fly with sergeant
The sergeant ? package has a minor update that adds REST API coverage for two "new" storage endpoints that make it possible to add, update and remove storage configurations on-the-fly without using the GUI or manually updating a config…
Simplifying World Tile Grid Creation with geom_wtg()
Nowadays (I've seen that word used so much in journal articles lately that I could not resist using it) I'm using world tile grids more frequently as the need arises to convey the state of exposure of various services at a global (country)…
Friday #rstats twofer: Finding macOS 32-bit apps & Processing Data from System Commands
Apple has run the death bell on 32-bit macOS apps and, if you're running a recent macOS version on your Mac (which you should so you can get security updates) you likely see this alert from…
Introducing 'gepetto' — a Splash-like REST API to Headless Chrome
It's been over a year since Headless Chrome was introduced and it has matured greatly over that time and has acquired a pretty large user base. The TLDR on it is that you can now use Chrome as you would any command-line interface (CLI)…
Updates to the sergeant (Apache Drill connector) Package & a look at Apache Drill 1.14.0 release
Apache Drill 1.14.0 was recently released , bringing with it many new features and a temporary incompatibility with the current rev of the MapR ODBC drivers. The Drill community expects new ODBC drivers to arrive shortly. The sergeant ? is…
In-brief: splashr update + High Performance Scraping with splashr, furrr & TeamHG-Memex's Aquarium
The development version of splashr now support authenticated connections to Splash API instances. Just specify user and pass on the initial splashr::splash() call to use your scraping setup a bit more safely. For those not familiar with…
Digging into mbox details: A tale of tm & reticulate
I had to processes a bunch of emails for a $DAYJOB task this week and my "default setting" is to use R for pretty much everything (this should come as no surprise). Treating mail as data is not an uncommon task and many R packages exist…
ggplot "Doodling" with HIBP Breaches
After reading this interesting analysis of "How Often Are Americans' Accounts Breached?" by Gaurav Sood (which we need more of in cyber-land) I gave in to the impulse to do some gg-doodling with the "Have I Been Pwnd" JSON data he…
Two new Apache Drill UDFs for Processing UR[IL]s and Internet Domain Names
Continuing the blog's UDF theme of late, there are two new UDF kids in…