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The Force: Accounted, in R
Despite being a cybersecurity professional, it's pretty easy to social engineer…
iptools 0.3.0 ("Violet Packet") Now on CRAN with Windows Support!
What can you do with it? One thing you can do is take a vector of domain names and turn them into IP…
Paths To Discovery: Mapping Your Home Network
Gone are the days when one had a single computer plugged directly into a modem (cable, DSL or good ol' Hayes). Even the days when there were just one or two computers connected via wires or invisible multi-gigahertz waves passing through…
Zellingenach: A visual exploration of the spatial patterns in the endings of German town and village names in R
Moritz Stefaner started off 2016 with a very spiffy post on "a visual exploration of the spatial patterns in the endings of German town and village names". Moritz was exploring some new data processing & visualization tools for the post,…
World Map Panel Plots with ggplot2 2.0 & ggalt
James Austin (@awhstin) made some #spiffy 4-panel maps with base R graphics but also posited he didn't use ggplot2…
Update to metricsgraphics 0.9.0 (now on CRAN)
It's been a while since I've updated my metricsgraphics package. The hit list for changes…
Fear of WaPo Using Bad Pie Charts Has Increased Since Last Year
I woke up this morning to a headline story from the Washington Post on "Americans are twice as willing to distance Christian extremists from their religion as Muslims". This post is not about the content of the headline or story. It is…
Moving the Shield to a new home
This week (Thanksgiving-ish, 2015) I start a new adventure at Rapid7! You can read more about why over at the official…
An OS X R Task Runner for—and a Mini-R-centric review of—Microsoft's Visual Studio Code Editor
Microsoft's newfound desire to make themselves desirable to the hipster development community has caused them to make many things open and/or free of late. One of these manifestations is Visual Studio Code, an Atom-ish editor for us code…
Beware of sideloading f.lux for iOS from files obtained on sharing/torrent sites
Apple made the @justgetflux folks remove their iOS sideloaded app due to the use of private APIs (which are a violation of the Apple Developer agreement). The ZIP archive has been pulled from their site (and it really has,…