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L.A. Unconf-idential : a.k.a. an rOpenSci #runconf17 Retrospective
Last year, I was able to sit back and lazily "RT" Julia Silge's excellent retrospective on her 2016 @rOpenSci "unconference" experience. Since Julia was not there this year, and the unconference experience is still in primary storage (LMD…
R⁶ — Idiomatic (for the People)
NOTE: I'll do my best to ensure the next post will have nothing to do with Twitter, and this post might not completely meet my R⁶…
A Very Palette-able Post
Many of my posts seem to begin with a link to a tweet, and this one falls into that…
R⁶ — Using R With Amazon Athena & AWS Temporary Security Credentials
Most of the examples of working with most of the AWS services show basic username & password authentication. That's all well-and-good, but many shops use the AWS Security Token Service to provide temporary credentials and session tokens to…
R⁶ — Tracking WannaCry Bitcoin Wallet Payments with R
If you follow me on Twitter or monitor @Rapid7's Community Blog you know I've been involved a bit in the WannaCry ransomworm…
Travis-CI Flaw Exposed Some 'Secure' Environment Variable Contents
Tagging this as #rstats -related since many R coders use Travis-CI to automate package builds (and other things). Security researcher Ivan Vyshnevskyi did some ++gd responsible disclosure to the Travis-CI folks letting them know they were…
Plot the Vote: Making U.S. Senate & House Cartograms in R
Political machinations are a tad insane in the U.S. these days & I regularly hit up @ProPublica & @GovTrack sites (& sub to the GovTrack e-mail updates) as I try to be an informed citizen, especially since I've got a Senator and…
Scrapeover Friday — a.k.a. Another R Scraping Makeover
Mara is — without a doubt — the best data science promoter in the Twitterverse. She seems to have her finger on the pulse of everything that's happening in the data science world and is one of the most ardent amplifiers there…
R⁶ — Using pandoc from R + A Neat Package For Reading Subtitles
Once I realized that my planned, larger post would not come to fruition today I took the R⁶ post (i.e. "minimal expository, keen focus") route, prompted by a Twitter discussion with some R mates who needed to convert "lightly formatted"…
Decomposing Composers with R
The intrepid @masalmon cranked out another blog post , remixing classical music schedule data from Radio Swiss Classic . It's a fun post and you should read it before continuing…