Tag:post
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Using MonetDB[Lite] with real-world CSV files
MonetDBLite (for R) was announced/released today and, while the examples they provide are compelling there's a "gotcha" for potential new folks using SQL in general and SQL + MonetDB + R together. The toy example on the site shows dumping…
Visualizing Survey Data : Comparison Between Observations
Cybersecurity is a domain that really likes surveys, or at the very least it has many folks within it that like to conduct and report on surveys. One recent survey on threat intelligence is in it's second year, so it sets about comparing…
An Ephemeral Update to daylight()
This occurrence of the bi-annual corruption of the space-time continuum (i.e. changing to/from standard/daylight time) in the U.S. caused me to make a slight change to the code from an older post. The daylight() function now auto-discovers…
Less Drama, More Encoding
Junk Charts adeptly noted and fixed this excessively stylized chart from the WSJ this…
Installing R on OS X - "100% Homebrew Edition"
In a previous post I provided "mouse-heavy" instructions for getting R running on your Mac. A few of the comments suggested that an "all Homebrew" solution may be preferable for some folks. Now, there are issues with this since getting…
Installing R on OS X
NOTE: The comments are a must read for this. Some excellent additional advice and "gotchas" by some super-helpful…
Replicating NatGeo's "Proper" Earthquake Map in R
I saw this post over at NatGeo over the weekend and felt compelled to replicate…
For Some Definition of "Directly" and/or "Contort"
Junk Charts did a post on Don't pick your tool before having your design and made a claim that…
A Package Full o' Pirates & Makin' Interactive Pirate Maps in arrrrrRstats
Avast, me hearties! It's time four t' annual International Talk Like a Pirate Day #rstats…
A Better Way To Read Nest Data Into R
I glimpsed a post in the RSS feeds today on how to connect Nest data with a Shiny dashboard and was compelled to post a less brute-force way to get data from the Nest API. The authors of the Shiny+Nest post used system calls to curl and…