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In God we trust. All others must bring data.
Rforecastio Package Update (1.1.0)
I've bumped up the version number of Rforecastio (github) to 1.1.0. The new features…
Moving From system() calls to Rcpp Interfaces
Over on the Data Driven Security Blog there's a post on how to use Rcpp to interface with an external library (in this case ldns for DNS lookups). It builds on another post which uses system() to make a call to dig to lookup DNS TXT…
Getting Fit2Tcx Working on Mac OS X (10.9.x)
Andreas Diesner's #spiffy Fit2Tcx command-line utility is a lightweight way to convert Garmin/ANT FIT files to TCX for further…
Mapping the March 2014 California Earthquake with ggmap
I had no intention to blog this, but @jayjacobs convinced me otherwise. I was curious about the recent (end of March, 2014) California earthquake "storm" and did a quick plot for "fun" and personal use using…
Guardian Words: Visualized
Andy Kirk (@visualisingdata) & Lynn Cherny (@arnicas) tweeted about the Guardian Word Count service/archive site, lamenting the lack of…
Using Twitter as a Data Source For Monitoring Password Dumps
I shot a quick post over at the Data Driven Security blog explaining how to separate Twitter data gathering from R code via the Ruby t (github repo) command. Using t frees R code from having to be a Twitter processor and lets the analyst…
One More (Yet-another?) Olympic Medal Live-tracking Shiny App
The code for the app is in this gist. It is unsurprisingly just like some spiffy other code you've seen apart from my aesthetic choices (Sochi blue! lines+dots! and, current rankings next to country…
Live Google Spreadsheet For Keeping Track Of Sochi Medals
The "medals" R post by TRInker and re-blogged by Revolutions were both spiffy and a live example why there's no point in not publishing raw…
Data Driven Security Roundup: betaPERT, Shiny, Honeypots, Passwords & Reproducible Research
Jay Jacobs (@jayjacobs)—my co-author of the soon-to-be-released book Data-Driven Security—& I have been hard at work over at the book's sister-blog cranking out code to help security domain experts delve into the dark art of data…
Data-Driven Security (The Book) Update #ShamelessSelfPromotion
Here's the list of links to e-tailers (man, I hate that term) who have it available for the various e-readers out…