Publications by hrbrmstr
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 (I’ll figure out an acronym later). Feel free to tag your posts as R⁶ (or r6) and use the mo...
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Simple Offline Airport Wi-Fi Tracker in R
@visualisingdata rebroadcast this tweet today: Wireless Passwords From Airports And Lounges Around The World https://t.co/OV0WJfwj8E— deb verhoeven (@bestqualitycrab) April 2, 2017 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 ...
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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 workstations. The fine folks at RStudio also make a server version (the codebase for RStudio is able to generate server or desktop and they are generally in 100% feature parity when it comes to interactive us...
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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 made a quick, annual, aggregate look at this soon after the incident: Overall annual boarding denial % is sma...
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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 simple: find a target domain you want to emulate register a homoglpyh version of it use the hacker’s favorite tool, Let’s Encrypt to serve it up with a nice, shiny green lock icon deploy some content phish someo...
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Shuttering Pies With Retiring Stores
I caught this “gem” in the Wall Street Journal tonight: 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 let’s make a column of 100% bars and label tota...
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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” Microsoft Word (docx) documents to markdown. Something like this: to: Does pandoc work? ==============...
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Scrapeover Friday — a.k.a. Another R Scraping Makeover
I caught a glimpse of a tweet by @dataandme on Friday: Using R & rvest to explore Malaysian property mkt: “Web Scraping: The Sequel, Propwall.my” https://t.co/daZOOJJfPN #rstats #rvest pic.twitter.com/u6QMhm4M3e— Mara Averick (@dataandme) May 5, 2017 Mara is — without a doubt — the best data science promoter in the Twitterverse. She se...
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Plot the Vote: Making U.S. Senate & House Cartograms in R
Political machinations are a tad insane in the U.S. these days & I regularly hit up @ProPublica & @GovTrack sites (& sub to the GovTrack e-mail updates) as I try to be an informed citizen, especially since I’ve got a Senator and Representative who seem to be in the sway of ?. I’ve always appreciated the ProPublica and GovTrack cartograms as ...
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Travis-CI Flaw Exposed Some ‘Secure’ Environment Variable Contents
Tagging this as #rstats-related since many R coders use Travis-CI to automate package builds (and other things). Security researcher Ivan Vyshnevskyi did some ++gd responsible disclosure to the Travis-CI folks letting them know they were leaking the contents of “secure” environment variables in the build logs. The TL;DR on “secure” enviro...
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