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Armchair Quarterbacking Systemic Organization and Industry Failures
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It's a FAKE (?)! Revisiting Trust In FOSS Ecosystems
I've blathered about trust before 1 2 , but said blatherings were in a "what if" context. Unfortunately, the if has turned into a when , which begged for further blathering on a recent FOSS ecosystem cybersecurity…
Revisiting Readability With RStudio
I've blogged about my in-development R package hgr a before and it's slowly getting to a CRAN release. There are two new features to it that are more useful in an interactive session than in a programmatic context. Since they build on each…
Increasing Output Buffer Size in Apache Drill UDFs Custom (Simple) Functions
Putting this here to make it easier for others who try to Google this topic to find it w/o having to find and tediously search through other UDFs (user-defined…
Teasing Out Top Daily Topics with GDELT's Television Explorer
Earlier this year, the GDELT Project released their Television Explorer that enabled API access to closed-caption tedt from television news broadcasts. They've done an incredible job expanding and stabilizing the API and just recently…
Readability Redux
I recently posted about using a Python module to convert HTML to usable text. Since then, a new package has hit CRAN dubbed htm2txt that is 100% R and uses regular expressions to strip tags from…
New CRAN Package Announcement: splashr
(That image was generated with splashr::renderpng(url = "https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/splashr/")…
Rpad Domain Repurposed To Deliver Creepy (and potentially malicious) Content
I was about to embark on setting up a background task to sift through R package PDFs for traces of functions that "omit NA values" as a surprise present for Colin Fay and Sir…
Unbottling ".msg" Files in R
There was a discussion on Twitter about the need to read in ".msg" files using R. The "MSG" file format is one of the many binary abominations created by Microsoft to lock folks and users into their platform and tools. Thankfully, they…
Reticulating Readability
I needed to clean some web HTML content for a project and I usually use hgr::cleantext() for it and that generally works pretty well. The cleantext() function uses an XSLT stylesheet to try to remove all non-"main text content" from an…