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Aligning the Dots On COVID Prison Waffles
The Marshall Project has a solid story and set of visualizations on the impact of COVID-19 in U.S. prisons. They keep the data (and vis) regularly updated. They do great work and this is an important topic, but this visualization breaks my…
A Look at PAN-OS Versions with a Bit of R
The incredibly talented folks over at Bishop Fox were quite generous this week, providing a scanner for figuring out PAN-OS GlobalProtect versions. I've been using their decoding technique and date-based fingerprint table to keep an eye on…
{sergeant} 0.9.0 Is On Its Way to CRAN Mirrors!
Tis been a long time coming, but a minor change to default S3 parameters in tibbles finally caused a push of {sergeant} — the R package that lets you use the Apache Drill REST API via {DBI}, {dplyr}, or directly — to…
RSwitch 1.7.0 Has Been Released
I (and, apparently, Gandalf Oo) are pleased to announce that RSwitch version 1.7.0 has been released . ( Direct Download…
Mining R 4.0.0 Changelog for Nuggets of Gold: #1 stopifnot()
R 4.0.0 has been out for a while, now, and — apart from a case where merge() was slower than dirt — it's been really stable for at least me (I use it daily on macOS, Linux, and Windows). Sure, it came with some headline-grabbing…
Attach Your R Code To Charts You Tweet For Reproducible R Tweets!
I caught this tweet by Terence Eden about using Twitter image alt-text to "PGP sign" tweet and my mind immediately went to "how can I abuse this for covert communications, malicious command-and-control, and embedding R code in…
New Package — {cdccovidview} — To Work with the U.S. CDC's New COVID-19 Trackers: COVIDView and COVID-NET
The United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC from now on) has setup two new public surveillance resources for COVID-19. Together, COVIDView and COVID-NET provide similar weekly surveillance data as FluView does for influenza-like…
{uaparserjs} Updated on CRAN & Using webpack to Make {V8} Application Bundles
Just a quick note that thanks to a gentle nudge an updated version of {uaparser} --- a package that processes User Agent strings web clients send to servers --- is making its way to all the CRAN mirrors and is also available on CINC . The…
The Waffle House Index
Waffle House announced it was closing hundreds of stores this week due to SARS-Cov-2 (a.k.a COVID-19). This move garnered quite a bit of media attention since former FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate used the restaurant chain as both an…
{catchpole} Redux and Hashing Files & Websites with {ssdeepr}
Über Tuesday has come and almost gone (some state results will take a while to coalesce) and I'm relieved to say that {catchpole} did indeed work, with the example code from before producing this on first…