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Scrapeover Friday — a.k.a. Another R Scraping Makeover
Mara is — without a doubt — the best data science promoter in the Twitterverse. She seems to have her finger on the pulse of everything that's happening in the data science world and is one of the most ardent amplifiers there…
R⁶ — Using pandoc from R + A Neat Package For Reading Subtitles
Once I realized that my planned, larger post would not come to fruition today I took the R⁶ post (i.e. "minimal expository, keen focus") route, prompted by a Twitter discussion with some R mates who needed to convert "lightly formatted"…
Decomposing Composers with R
The intrepid @masalmon cranked out another blog post , remixing classical music schedule data from Radio Swiss Classic . It's a fun post and you should read it before continuing…
Shuttering Pies With Retiring Stores
It's pretty hard to compare store-to-store, even though it is fairly clear which ones are going-going-gone. If we want to see the relative percentage of each store closing and also want to see how they stack up against each other, then…
When Homoglyphs Attack! Generating Phishing Domain Names with R
It's likely you've seen the news regarding yet-another researcher showing off a phishing domain attack. The technique is pretty…
Come Fly With Me (well, not really) — Comparing Involuntary Disembarking Rates Across U.S. Airlines in R
By now, word of the forcible deplanement of a medical professional by United has reached even the remotest of outposts in the #rstats universe. Since the news brought this practice to global attention, I found some aggregate U.S. Gov data…
R⁶ — RStudio Server Client? Make An App For That!
RStudio is a great way to work through analyses tasks, and I suspect most folks use the "desktop" version of the product on their local…
Simple Offline Airport Wi-Fi Tracker in R
The Google Maps interface is a bit meh and the "formatted" data is also a bit meh but the data is useful when travelling (NOTE: always use a VPN in airports on both your mobile devices and…
Superclassing to R⁶
To avoid "branding" confusion with R⁴ I'm superclassing it to R⁶ and encouraging others in the R community to don the moniker and do their own small, focused posts on topics that would help the R community learn things. Feel free to use R⁶…
R⁶ — Snow Day Facets
Back in 2014 I blogged about first snowfall dates for a given U.S. state. It's April 1, 2017 and we're slated to get 12-18" of snow up here in Maine and @mrshrbrmstr asked how often this — snow in May — has occurred near…