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Knit directly to jupyter notebooks from RStudio
Did you know that you can completely replace the "knitting" engine in R Markdown documents? Well, you…
2017-01 Authored Package Updates
The rest of the month is going to be super-hectic and it's unlikely I'll be able to do any more to help the push to CRAN 10K, so here's a breakdown of CRAN and GitHub new packages & package updates that I felt were worth raising awareness…
The Most Important Commodity in 2017 is Data
Despite being in cybersecurity nigh forever (a career that quickly turns one into a determined skeptic if you're doing your job correctly) I have often trusted various (not to be named) news sources, reports and data sources to provide…
Removing Personal Bias From Flu Severity Estimation (a.k.a. Misery Loves Data)
The family got hit pretty hard with the flu right as the Christmas festivities started and we were all pretty much bed-ridden zombies up until today (2017-01-02). When in the throes of a very bad ILI it's easy to imagine that you're a…
North Carolina's Neighborhood
When I saw the bombastic headline "North Carolina is no longer classified as a democracy" pop up in my RSS feeds today (article link: http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article122593759.html ) I knew it'd help feed polarization bear…
Pipes (%>%) Everywhere
An R user asked a question regarding whether it's possible to have the RStudio pipe ( %>% ) shortcut ( Cmd-Shift-M ) available in other macOS applications. If you're using Alfred then you can use this workflow for said task (IIRC this…
sergeant : An R Boot Camp for Apache Drill
I recently mentioned that I've been working on a development version of an Apache Drill R package called sergeant . Here's a lifted "TLDR" on…
Package update: longurl 0.3.0 is hitting CRAN mirrors
The longurl package has been updated to version 0.3.0 as a result of a bug report noting that the URL expansion API it was using went pay-for-use. Since this was the second time a short URL expansion service either went belly-up or had…
Minding the zoo[keeper] with R
I've been drafting a new R package — sergeant — to work with Apache Drill and have found it much easier to manage having Drill operating in a single node cluster vs drill-embedded mode (esp when I need to add a couple more nodes for…
The Actual, Über, Ultimate Fake News List
It is surprisingly shorter (or longer if you grok regular expressions) than you think it might be: http[s]://.…