Google recently announced their DNS-over-HTTPS API, which “enhances privacy and security between a client and a recursive resolver, and complements DNSSEC to provide end-to-end authenticated DNS lookups”. The REST API they provided was pretty simple to wrap into a package and I tossed in some SPF functions that I had ...

A knapsack Le Monde mathematical puzzle: Given n packages weighting each at most 5.8kg for a total weight of 300kg, is it always possible to allocate these packages  to 12 separate boxes weighting at most 30kg each? weighting at most 29kg each? This can be checked by brute force using the ...

From Bob Rudis' blog comes a weekly data/coding challenge. I didn't quite get the time to tackle last week's but I thought this one offered up a pretty good opportunity. Half the challenge is of course data processing/tidying, which is...Continue Reading →

I have an unnatural obsession with 4-dimensional networks. It might have started with a dream, but VR  might make it a reality one day. For now I will settle for  3D networks in Plotly. Presentation: R users group (more) More: networkly

Reino Bruner April 8, 2016 As a data scientist, I find the vast majority of the useful content I produce just gets stored into a rainy day folder until I have further need for it. I think it would be more beneficial if I brought some of the functions, processes, and knowledge ...

I make a fair share of bar charts throughout the day and really like switching to lollipop charts to mix things up a bit and enhance the visual appeal. They’re easy to do in ggplot2, just use your traditional x & y mapping for geom_point() and then use (you ...