While there’s an unholy affinity in the infosec commuinty with slapping IPv4 addresses onto a world map, that isn’t the only way to spatially visualize IP addresses. A better approach (when tabluation with bar charts, tables or other standard visualization techniques won’t do) is to map IPv4 ... [Read more...]

Happy New Year! So, this is something I’ve been working on before its official publication (so this is the first … Continue reading → [Read more...]

When looking back on 2014 from an infrastructure perspective, it's hard not to have one word on the lips: Docker. (Or, as we are wont to do in Silicon Valley when a technology is particularly hot, have the same word on the lips three times over à la Gabbo: "Docker, Docker, DOCKER!") ... [Read more...]

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Coordinates: 2014 September 15-17 in the London borough of #rstats. 15th, evening I had just the right number of R bugs so that I could walk to the drinks and arrive fashionably late.  On the way, I realized that I hadn’t been near the Tower of London since the first ... [Read more...]

I have committed to building an htmlwidget a week in 2015.  To isolate and separate the commitment from this blog, I set up a new site Building Widgets and Github repo.  The first post Can I Commit? provides meta introspection on commitment. Can I c... [Read more...]

by Joseph Rickert In a recent post, where I presented some R related highlights of November's H20 World conference, I singled out and described talks by Trevor Hastie and John Chambers and remarked that it would be nice if the videos would be made available. Well, thanks to the generosity ... [Read more...]

The crypto-currency Bitcoin and the way it generates “trustless trust” is one of the hottest topics when it comes to technological innovations right now. The way Bitcoin transactions always backtrace the whole transaction list since the first discovered block (the Genesis block) does not only work for finance. The first ... [Read more...]

Barr et al's well-intentioned paper is starting to lead to some seriously weird behavior in psycholinguistics! As a reviewer, I'm seeing submissions where people take the following approach:1. Try to fit a "maximal" linear mixed model.  If you get... [Read more...]

Logistic Regression Continued I'm finally getting back to tackling the Titanic competition. In my last entry, I had started with some basic models (only females live, only 1st and 2nd class females live, etc), and then moved onto logistic regression. My logistic regression model at the time was not performing ... [Read more...]

Introduction In the next series of posts I will try to explain base concepts Locality Sensitive Hashing technique. Note, that I will try to follow general functional programming style. So I will use R’s Higher-Order Functions instead of traditional R’s *apply functions family (I suppose this post will ... [Read more...]

Introduction In the next series of posts I will try to explain base concepts Locality Sensitive Hashing technique. Note, that I will try to follow general functional programming style. So I will use R’s Higher-Order Functions instead of traditional R’s *apply functions family (I suppose this post will ... [Read more...]

What I like most about the R and Python developer and user communities, is their incredible openness and generosity. One of the finest examples in the past year was the online course “Statistical Learning” taught by Stanford professors Trevor Hastie and Rob Tibshirani. In this MOOC they explain very understandably (... [Read more...]

2015 just kicked off and we all are familiar with the process of making resolutions for the new year. It happens every single year across the globe… and the list of top resolutions looks... [Read more...]

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Wow – what a headline … okay, I admit it’s phrased quite sensational given that it anticipates just one possible interpretation of increasingly more births around summer / autumn compared to in spring … but I guess I just get … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Happy New Year everyone! Another year has come and gone, and this blog has just entered its seventh year of publication. (Once again, I missed the anniversary back on December 9.) Thanks to everyone who has supported this blog over the past 6 years by reading, sharing and commenting on our posts. ... [Read more...]