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voteogram Is Now On CRAN
Earlier this year, I made a package that riffed off of ProPublica's really neat voting cartograms (maps) for the U.S. House and Senate. You can see one for disaster relief spending in the House and one for the ACA "Skinny Repeal" in the…
"Black"/"Cyber" Tips (a.k.a. How the hrbrgrinch ruined Christmas shopping)
NOTE: This is mainly for those of us in the Colonies, but some tips apply…
For Victoria & Kyle
Daughter #2 got married to a wonderful chap yesterday. I wanted to preserve the text of my speech and blessing for them here. I know it's on their wedding video but I'd like to archive it into the historical record as…
Statebins Reimagined
A long time ago, in a github repo far, far away there lived a tiny package that made it possible to create equal area, square U.S. state cartograms in R dubbed statebins ? . Three years have come and gone and --- truth be told --- I've…
New IBM Plex Sans Support in hrbrthemes + Automating Axis Text Justification
IBM has a new set of corporate typefaces --- dubbed "Plex" --- and has released them with a generous open license. IBM Plex Sans is not too…
Twitter Outer Limits : Seeing How Far Have Folks Fallen Down The Slippery Slope to "280" with rtweet
By now, virtually every major media outlet has covered the "280 Apocalypse"™. For those still not "in the know", Twitter recently moved the tweet character cap to 280 after a "successful" beta test (some of us have different ideas of what…
Measuring & Monitoring Internet Speed with R
Working remotely has many benefits, but if you work remotely in an area like, say, rural Maine, one of those benefits is not massively speedy internet connections. Being able to go fast and furious on the internet is one of the many things…
Taking a Shot at cdcfluview v0.7.0 (a.k.a. The Dangers of Relying on 'Hidden' APIs)
Unlike @noamross, I am not an epidemiologist (NOTE: Noam battles pandemics before breakfast, so be super nice to him) but I do like to find kindred methodologies in other disciplines to help foster the growth of cybersecurity into…
I, For One, Welcome Our Forthcoming New robots.txt Overlords
Despite my week-long Twitter consumption sabbatical (helped --- in part --- by the nigh week-long internet and power outage here in Maine), I still catch useful snippets from folks. My cow-orker @dabdine shunted a tweet by @terrencehart…
Yet-Another-Power Outages Post : Full Tidyverse Edition
This past weekend, violent windstorms raged through New England. We — along with over 500,000 other Mainers — went "dark" in the wee hours of Monday morning and (this post was published on Thursday AM) we still have no utility-provided…