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I Just Wanted The Data : Turning Tableau & Tidyverse Tears Into Smiles with Base R (An Encoding Detective Story)
Those outside the Colonies may not know that Payless—a national chain that made footwear affordable for millions of 'Muricans who can't spare $100.00 USD for a pair of shoes their 7 year old will outgrow in a year— is closing . CNBC also…
In Dev: WiGLE Your Way Into A Hotspot with wiglr
read the code (to ensure R package developers are pwning or tracking you),and …after putting your "Encoded for use" token in the WIGLEAPIKEY environment variable…start…
Conquering Caffeinated Amazon Athena with the metis Trio of Packages
I must preface this post with the posit that if you're doing anything interactive() with Amazon Athena you should seriously consider just using their free ODBC drivers as it's the easiest way to wire them up to R DBI- and tidyverse-wise.…
Using the ropendata R Package to Access Petabytes of Free Internet Telemetry Data from Rapid7
I've got a post up over at $DAYJOB's blog on using the ropendata ? package to access the ginormous and ever-increasing amount of internet telemetry (scan) data via the Rapid7 Open Data API…
Quick Hit: Speeding Up a Slow/Mundane Task with a Little Rcpp
Over at $DAYJOB's blog I've queued up a post that shows how to use our new ropendata ? package to work with our Open Data portal's API. I'm not super-sure when it's going to be posted so keep an RSS reader fixed on https://blog.rapid7.com/…
Send UDP Probes (with payloads) and Receive/Process Responses in R
We worked pretty hard over at $DAYJOB on helping to quantify and remediate a fairly significant configuration weakness in Ubiquiti network work gear attached to the internet…
R Package Update: urlscan
The urlscan ? package (an interface to the urlscan.io API) is now at version 0.2.0 and supports urlscan.io's authentication requirement when submitting a link for analysis. The service is handy if you want to learn about the details — all…
Homebrew 2.0.0 Released == homebrewanalytics package updated
A major new release of Homebrew has landed and now includes support for Linux as well as Windows! via the Windows Subsystem for Linux. There are overall stability and speed improvements baked in as well. The aforelinked notification has…
Fast Static Maps Built with R
We can do all of that in R with the help of a couple packages and by using a free geocoding service which will also allow us to put more data on the map, albeit with some extra work due to it returning weird values for Hawaii…
Quick Hit: Using seymour to Subscribe to your Git[la|hu]b Repo Issues in Feedly
The seymour ? Feedly API package has been updated to support subscribing to RSS/Atom feeds. Previously the package was intended to just treat your Feedly as a data source, but there was a compelling use case for enabling subscription…