Category: R
Everything filed under R.
The Most Important Commodity in 2017 is Data
Despite being in cybersecurity nigh forever (a career that quickly turns one into a determined skeptic if you're doing your job correctly) I have often trusted various (not to be named) news sources, reports and data sources to provide…
Removing Personal Bias From Flu Severity Estimation (a.k.a. Misery Loves Data)
The family got hit pretty hard with the flu right as the Christmas festivities started and we were all pretty much bed-ridden zombies up until today (2017-01-02). When in the throes of a very bad ILI it's easy to imagine that you're a…
Pipes (%>%) Everywhere
An R user asked a question regarding whether it's possible to have the RStudio pipe ( %>% ) shortcut ( Cmd-Shift-M ) available in other macOS applications. If you're using Alfred then you can use this workflow for said task (IIRC this…
sergeant : An R Boot Camp for Apache Drill
I recently mentioned that I've been working on a development version of an Apache Drill R package called sergeant . Here's a lifted "TLDR" on…
Package update: longurl 0.3.0 is hitting CRAN mirrors
The longurl package has been updated to version 0.3.0 as a result of a bug report noting that the URL expansion API it was using went pay-for-use. Since this was the second time a short URL expansion service either went belly-up or had…
Minding the zoo[keeper] with R
I've been drafting a new R package — sergeant — to work with Apache Drill and have found it much easier to manage having Drill operating in a single node cluster vs drill-embedded mode (esp when I need to add a couple more nodes for…
Survey on Data Science In Two Year Colleges
The ASA (American Statistical Association) has been working in collaboration with the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) on developing a data science curriculum for Two Year Colleges. Part of this development is the need to…
Interacting With Amazon Athena from R
This is a short post for those looking to test out Amazon Athena with…
Counting [U.S.] Expatriation with R (a.k.a. a Decade of Desertion)
If you're even remotely following the super insane U.S. 2016 POTUS circus election you've no doubt seen a resurgence of "if X gets elected, I'm moving to Y" claims by folks who are "anti" one candidate or another. The Washington Examiner…
QuickLookR - A macOS QuickLook plugin for R Data files
I had tried to convert my data-saving workflows to feather but there have been issues with it supporting large files (that seem to be near resolution), so I've been continuing to use R Data files for local saving of processed/cleaned…