Articles by hrbrmstr

R⁶ — Capturing [YouTube] Captions

March 29, 2018 | hrbrmstr

(R⁶ == brief, low-expository posts) @yoniceedee suggested I look at the Cambridge Analytics “whistleblower” testimony proceedings: @hrbrmstr giving the term "improving r&d" a whole new meaning … https://t.co/f1KA8U3htT — yoni sidi (@yoniceedee) March 29, 2018 I value the resources @yoniceedee tosses my way (they often end me down ... [Read more...]

Steel-ing a Makeover from Tariffic Post

March 12, 2018 | hrbrmstr

(FWIW I think I even caused myself pain due to the title of this blog post). Kaiser Fung (@junkcharts) did a makeover post on this chart about U.S. steel tariffs: Kaiser’s makeover is good (Note: just because I said “good” does not mean I’m endorsing the use ...
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Pym.js Library Vulnerability in widgetframe Package

February 16, 2018 | hrbrmstr

What’s Up? The NPR Visuals Team created and maintains a javascript library that makes it super easy to embed iframes on web pages and have said documents still be responsive. The widgetframe R htmlwidget uses pym.js to bring this (much needed) functionality into widgets and (eventually) shiny apps. ...
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The Friday #rstats PuzzleR : 2018-01-26

January 26, 2018 | hrbrmstr

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 ...
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The Friday #rstats PuzzleR : 2018-01-19

January 19, 2018 | hrbrmstr

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 ...
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Bitcoin (World Map) Bubbles

January 18, 2018 | hrbrmstr

We’re doing some interesting studies (cybersecurity-wise, not finance-wise) on digital currency networks at work-work and — while I’m loathe to create a geo-map from IPv4 geolocation data — we: do get (often, woefully inaccurate) latitude & longitude data from our geolocation service (I won’t name-and-shame here); and, there are definite ...
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R⁶ — Capture Tweets with tweet_shot()

December 30, 2017 | hrbrmstr

(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 ...
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2017. Quantified. In. R.

December 29, 2017 | hrbrmstr

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 ...
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New Package swatches is Now on CRAN

December 21, 2017 | hrbrmstr

It’s been a long time coming, but swatches? is now on CRAN. What is “swatches”? First off, swatches has nothing to do with those faux-luxury brand Swiss-made timepieces. swatches is all about color. R/CRAN has plenty of color picking packages. The colourlovers? ? by @thosjleeper is one of my ...
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A Workaround For When Anti-DDoS Also Means Anti-Data

December 10, 2017 | hrbrmstr

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 ...
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