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It's Never About The Security...
It's Never About The Security... — rud.is blog archive
A Wish for Snow in Spring
Sadly, that's not a modern story. It's an adapted quote from chapter 4 (pp. 97-98, paperback) of The Ghost Map , by Steven Johnson , a book on the cholera epidemic of…
Interactive Slopegraphs With Processing
Given my obsession with slopegraphs, I'm not sure how I missed this post back in late February by @JeffClark that includes a very nicely executed interactive sloepgraph on the global obesity problem. He used Processing & Processing JS to…
My Picks From #PyCon2013
A huge thanks to the speakers and conference organizers for making these resources freely available, especially to those of us who were not able to attend the…
Chrome App for Tiny Tiny RSS
I'm still getting my self-hosted Tiny Tiny RSS configuration just the way I want it prior to doing a full blog post on it, but I thought it would be helpful to share a basic Chrome App for it. I ended up creating it to replace the Google…
π, Awareness, DataVis, VAST 2013, Moar data! & GReader Machinations
Far too many interesting bits to spam on Twitter individually but each is worth getting the word out…
Visualizing Risky Words — Part 4 (D3 Word Trees)
This is a fourth post in my Visualizing Risky Words series. You'll need to read starting from that link for context if you're just jumping in…
Visualizing Risky Words — Part 3
The DST changeover in the US has made today a fairly strange one, especially when combined with a very busy non-computing day yesterday. That strangeness manifest as a need to take the D3 heatmap idea mentioned in the previous post and…
Visualizing Risky Words — Part 2
This is a follow-up to my Visualizing Risky Words post. You'll need to read that for context if you're just jumping in now. Full R code for the generated images (which are pretty large) is at the…
Visualizing Risky Words
Inspired by a post by @bfist who created the following word cloud in Ruby from VZ RISK INTSUM posts (visit the link or select the visualization to go to the…