Time for another look at what’s new and interesting in the #rstats world with the help of Peter Meissner’s (@marvin_dpr) crossword.r🔗. The answers to last week’s puzzle have been posted (it seemed to make more sense posting the answers a week later vs the Monday after). There is a dedicated category — puzzler — to... Continue reading →
The post The Friday #rstats PuzzleR : 2018-01-26 appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Peter Meissner (@marvin_dpr) released crossword.r🔗 to CRAN today. It’s a spiffy package that makes it dead simple to generate crossword puzzles. He also made a super spiffy javascript library to pair with it, which can turn crossword model output into an interactive puzzle. I thought I’d combine those two creations with a way to highlight... Continue reading →
The post The Friday #rstats PuzzleR : 2018-01-19 appeared first on Security Boulevard.
NOTE: The likelihood of this recipe being added to the recent practice bookdown book is slim, but I’ll try to keep the same format for the blog post. Problem You want to collect all the tweets in a Twitter tweet thread Solution Use a few key functions in rtweet to piece the thread elements back... Continue reading →
The post Can’t Stop at 21: Twitter Recipe #22 — Tying Up Loose Threads appeared first on Security Boulevard.
(You can find all R⁶ posts here) A Twitter discussion: I'm going to keep my eyes out for this one! Would love to have an easy way to embed tweets in Rmd talks!— Jeff Hollister (@jhollist) December 30, 2017 that spawned from Maëlle’s recent look-back post turned into a quick function for capturing an image... Continue reading →
The post R⁶ — Capture Tweets with tweet_shot() appeared first on Security Boulevard.
2017 is nearly at an end. We humans seem to need these cycles to help us on our path forward and have, throughout history, used these annual demarcation points as a time of reflection of what was, what is an what shall come next. To that end, I decided it was about time to help... Continue reading →
The post 2017. Quantified. In. R. appeared first on Security Boulevard.
I know some folks had a bit of fun with the previous post since it exposed the fact that I left out unique MQTT client id generation from the initial 0.1.0 release of the in-development package (client ids need to be unique). There have been some serious improvements since said post and I thought a... Continue reading →
The post mqtt Development Log : On DSLs, Rcpp Modules and Custom Formula Functions appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Most of us see the internet through the lens of browsers and apps on our laptops, desktops, watches, TVs and mobile devices. These displays are showing us — for the most part — content designed for human consumption. Sure, apps handle API interactions, but even most of that communication happens over ports 80 or 443.... Continue reading →
The post Inter-operate with ‘MQTT’ Message Brokers With R (a.k.a. Live! BBC! Subtitles!) appeared first on Security Boulevard.
More sites are turning to services like Cloudflare due to just how stupid-easy it is to DDoS a site. Sometimes the DDoS is intentional (malicious). Sometimes it’s because your bot didn’t play nice (stop that, btw). Sadly, at some point, most of us with “vital” sites are going to have to pay protection money to... Continue reading →
The post A Workaround For When Anti-DDoS Also Means Anti-Data appeared first on Security Boulevard.
I’m in the market for Christmas presents for my true love, @mrshrbrmstr, and thought I’d look to an age-old shopping list for inspiration. Just what would it set me back if I decided to mimic the 12 Days of Christmas in this modern day and age? Let’s try to do the whole thing in R... Continue reading →
The post The Cost of True Love (a.k.a. The Tidy — and expensive! — Twelve Days of Christmas) appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Over the past few weeks, I had been noticing that some posts in the R-bloggers feed were getting truncated in Feedly. I don’t remember when I noticed that since I usually click through immediately from the headline entry to the R-bloggers page vs read in Feedly since ultimately I want to get to the author’s... Continue reading →
The post A Public Apology to Tal/R-Bloggers + The Trouble With Tibbles appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Our family has been reading, listening to and watching “A Christmas Carol” for just abt 30 years now. I got it into my crazy noggin to perform a sentiment analysis on it the other day and tweeted out the results, but a large chunk of the R community is not on Twitter and it would... Continue reading →
The post Sentiment Analysis of “A Christmas Carol” appeared first on Security Boulevard.
NOTE: This is mainly for those of us in the Colonies, but some tips apply globally. Black Friday / Cyber Monday / Cyber November / Holiday 💲hopping is upon us. You’re going to buy stuff. You’re going to use digital transactions to do so. Here are some tips in a semi-coherent order: Sign up for... Continue reading →
The post “Black”/”Cyber” Tips (a.k.a. How the hrbrgrinch ruined Christmas shopping) appeared first on Security Boulevard.
(one more time: sub to the #rstats feed if you’re only on the blog for #rstats/datasci items) 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... Continue reading →
The post For Victoria & Kyle appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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 never been happy with that package. It never felt “right”... Continue reading →
The post Statebins Reimagined appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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 “success” looks like). I had been on a hiatus from the platform for a... Continue reading →
The post Twitter Outer Limits : Seeing How Far Have Folks Fallen Down The Slippery Slope to “280” with rtweet appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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 I miss about our time in Seattle and it is unlikely that... Continue reading →
The post Measuring & Monitoring Internet Speed with R appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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 something beyond it’s current Barnum & Bailey state. I also love finding and exposing hidden APIs and... Continue reading →
The post Taking a Shot at cdcfluview v0.7.0 (a.k.a. The Dangers of Relying on ‘Hidden’ APIs) appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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 power nor high-speed internet access. The children have turned iFeral, and being a remote worker... Continue reading →
The post Yet-Another-Power Outages Post : Full Tidyverse Edition appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Way back in July of 2009, the first version of the twitteR package was published by Geoff Jentry in CRAN. Since then it has seen 28 updates, finally breaking the 0.x.y barrier into 1.x.y territory in March of 2013 and receiving it’s last update in July of 2015. For a very long time, the twitteR... Continue reading →
The post A Call to Tweets (& Blog Posts)! appeared first on Security Boulevard.
