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New Gig!
Well, the proverbial cat is definitely out of the bag now. I'm moving on from the current gig to take a security data scientist position at Verizon Enterprise. The esteemed Wade Baker will be my new benevolent overlord and it probably…
Rforecastio 1.3.0 Update
Thanks to a comment suggestion, the Rforecastio package is now up to version 1.3.0 and has a new parameter which lets you specify which time conversion function you want to use. Details are up on…
Rforecastio 1.2.0 Bug-fix Update
Not even going to put an R category on this since I don't want to pollute R-bloggers with this tiny post, but I had to provide the option to let folks specify ssl.verifypeer=FALSE (so I made it a generic option to pass in any CURL…
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…