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Examining POTUS Executive Orders
This week's edition of Data is Plural had two really fun data sets. One is serious fun (the first comprehensive data set on U.S. evictions , and the other I knew about but had forgotten: The Federal Register Executive Order (EO) data…
Access Your "Saved for Later" Feedly Items By Hooking Up Dropbox to Feedly
If you come here often you've noticed that I've been writing a semi-frequent series on using the Feedly API with…
By Request: Retrieving Your Feedly "Saved for Later" Entries
@mkjcktzn asked if one can access Feedly "Saved for Later" items via the API. The answer is "Yes!", and it builds off of that previous post. You'll need to read it and get your authentication key (still no package ?) before…
A Word About Tracking On This Site
Since I just railed against Congress for being a bit two-faced about privacy I thought some rud.is site disclosure would be in…
Does Congress Really Care About Your Privacy?
Said bad words include "Facebook", "Mark Zuckerberg" and many referrals to entities within the U.S. Government. Given the topic, it cannot be…
Convert epub to Text for Processing in R
Here's one way to do that which doesn't rely on pandoc ( pandoc can easily do this and ships with RStudio but shelling out for this is cheating…
Dissecting R Package "Utility Belts"
Many R package authors (including myself) lump a collection of small, useful functions into some type of utils.R file and usually do not export the functions since they are (generally) designed to work on package internals rather than…
Adding macOS Touch Bar Support to RStudio
Modern MacBook Pros have a fairly useless ( c'mon, admit it! ) "Touch Bar" that did little more than cause severe ire in the developer community after turning a full-fledged, tactile Escape key into a hollow version if its former…
Exploring R-Bloggers Posts with the Feedly API
There's a yuge chance you're reading this post (at least initially) on R-Bloggers right now (though you should also check out R Weekly and add their live feed to your RSS reader pronto!). It's a central "watering hole" for R folks and is…
2018 IEEE Security & Privacy (Filtered) Paper Dump
The 2018 IEEE Security & Privacy Conference is in May but they've posted their full proceedings and it's better to grab them early than to wait for it to become part of a paid journal…