Category: R
Everything filed under R.
SHODAN API in R (With Examples)
Folks may debate the merits of the SHODAN tool, but in my opinion it's a valuable resource, especially if used for "good". What is SHODAN? I think ThreatPost summed it up nicely…
Slopegraphs in R
If you even remotely follow this blog, you'll see that I'm kinda obsessed with slopegraphs . While I'm pretty happy with my Python implementation , I do quite a bit of data processing & data visualization in R these days and had a few free…
Forbes Graph Makeover Contest Entry #1
Naomi Robbins is running a graph makeover challenge over at her Forbes blog and this is my entry for the B2B/B2C Traffic Sources one (click for larger…
'Sandy' Code Up On Github
I will (most likely) not be littering the blog with any more updates to the 'Sandy' code unless they are really significant. You can follow along at home to any changes over at github…
Watch Sandy in "R" (Including Forecast Cone)
This is a follow-up post to the quickly crafted Watch Sandy in "R" post last night. I noticed that Google provided the KML on their crisis map and wanted to show how easy it is to add it to previous…
Watch "Sandy" In R
While this will pale in comparison to the #spiffy Sandy graphics on Weather Underground and other sites (including Google's "Crisis Center" maps), I thought it might be interesting to show folks how they can keep an eye on "Sandy" using…
Get an R Data Frame from a MongoDB Query
There's a good FAQ on how to do the MongoDB query -> R data frame but I wanted to post a more complete example that included the database connection and query setup since I suspect there are folks new to Mongo who would appreciate the…
DIY ZeroAccess GeoIP Analysis : So What?
Did you know that – if you're a US citizen – you have approximately a 1 in 5 chance of getting the flu this year? If you're a male (no regional bias for this one), you have a 1 in 400 chance of developing Hodgkin's Disease and a 1 in 5,000…
DIY ZeroAccess GeoIP Plots
Since F-Secure was #spiffy enough to provide us with GeoIP data for mapping the scope of the ZeroAccess botnet, I thought that some aspiring infosec data scientists might want to see how to use something besides Google Maps & Google Earth…
ThinkStats … in R :: Example/Chapter 2 :: Example 2.1-2.3
As promised, this post is a bit more graphical, but I feel the need to stress the importance of the first few points in chapter 2 of the book (i.e. the difference between mean and average and why variance is meaningful). These are…