Articles by hrbrmstr

Mapping Tornado Alley with R

May 18, 2019 | hrbrmstr

I caught a re-tweet of this tweet by @harry_stevens: THREAD: I wrote a post on @observablehq about a map I made today. It shows a typical day in the life of a graphics journalist: You never know what problems you'll have to solve on deadline! https://t.co/yRhW1...
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Quick Hit: Updates to QuickLookR and {rdatainfo}

May 12, 2019 | hrbrmstr

I’m using GitUgh links here b/c the issue was submitted there. Those not wishing to be surveilled by Microsoft can find the macOS QuickLook plugin project and {rdatainfo} project in SourceHut and GitLab (~hrbrmstr and hrbrmstr accounts respectively). I hadn’t touched QuickLookR???? or {rdatainfo}???? at all since 2016 ...
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A Limited-but-Functional Couchbase Free Text Search & Retrieval Un-package; or, “How I Abused Couchbase & R to Perform Bulk IP Whois Full-text Searches” (a Cobbler’s Tale)

April 7, 2019 | hrbrmstr

Researching “the internet” (i.e. $DAYJOB) means having to deal with a ton of “unique” (I’m being kind) data formats. This is ultimately a tale of how I performed full-text searches across one of them. It all started off innocently enough. This past week I need to be able ...
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Rome Was Not Built In A Day But widgetcard Was!

March 26, 2019 | hrbrmstr

I saw a second post on turning htmlwidgets into interactive Twitter Player cards and felt somewhat compelled to make creating said entities a bit easier so posited the following: Wld this be useful packaged up, #rstats?https://t.co/sfqlWnEeJVhttps://t.co/troKzmzTNv (TLDR/V: Single function to turn an ...
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Assumptions Matter More Than Dependencies

March 18, 2019 | hrbrmstr

There’s been alot of talk about “dependencies” in the R universe of late. This is not really a post about that but more of a “really, don’t do this” if you decide you want to poke the dependency bear by trying to build a deeply flawed model off ... [Read more...]

Handling & Sharing PCAPs Like a Boss with PacketTotal

March 17, 2019 | hrbrmstr

The fine folks over at @PacketTotal bequeathed an API token on me so I cranked out an R package for it to enable more dynamic investigations work (RStudio makes for an amazing incident responder investigations console given that you can script in multiple languages, code in C[++], and write documentation ... [Read more...]

Wrangling Content Security Policies in R

March 10, 2019 | hrbrmstr

(header image via MDN Web Docs) The past two posts have used R to look at the safety/security (just assume those terms are in scare quotes from now on in every post) of web-y thing-ys. We’ll continue that theme with this post where we focus on a [sadly ...
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CRAN Mirror “Security”

March 3, 2019 | hrbrmstr

In the “Changes on CRAN” section of the latest version of the The R Journal (Vol. 10/2, December 2018) had this short blurb entitled “CRAN mirror security”: Currently, there are 100 official CRAN mirrors, 68 of which provide both secure downloads via ‘https’ and use secure mirroring from the CRAN master (via rsync through ...
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htmlunitjars Updated to 2.34.0

February 28, 2019 | hrbrmstr

The in-dev htmlunit package for javascript-“enabled” web-scraping without the need for Selenium, Splash or headless Chrome relies on the HtmlUnit library and said library just released version 2.34.0 with a wide array of changes that should make it possible to scrape more gnarly javascript-“enabled” sites. The Chrome emulation is ... [Read more...]

In Dev: WiGLE Your Way Into A Hotspot with wiglr

February 18, 2019 | hrbrmstr

WiGLE has been around a while and is a great site to explore the pervasiveness or sparsity of Wi-Fi (and cellular) networks around the globe. While interactive use is fun, WiGLE also has a free API (so long as you obey the EULA and aren’t abusive) that lets you ...
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