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The Apache Drill folks have a nice walk-through tutorial on how to analyze the Yelp Academic Dataset with Drill. It’s a bit out of date (the current Yelp data set structure is different enough that the tutorial will error out at various points), but it’s a great example ... [Read more...]

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I’ve been doing intermittent prep work for a follow-up to an earlier post on store closings and came across this CNN Money “article” on it. Said “article” is a deliberately obfuscated or lazily crafted series of GIF images that contain all the Radio Shack impending store closings. It’s ... [Read more...]

I used reading a directory of CSVs as the foundational example in my recent post on idioms. During my exchange with Matt, Hadley and a few others — in the crazy Twitter thread that spawned said post — I mentioned that I’d personally “just use Drill”. I’ll use this post ... [Read more...]

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NOTE: I’ll do my best to ensure the next post will have nothing to do with Twitter, and this post might not completely meet my R⁶ criteria. A single, altruistic, nigh exuberant R tweet about slurping up a directory of CSVs devolved quickly — at least in my opinion, and ... [Read more...]

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Most of the examples of working with most of the AWS services show basic username & password authentication. That’s all well-and-good, but many shops use the AWS Security Token Service to provide temporary credentials and session tokens to limit exposure and provide more uniform multi-factor authentication. At my workplace, Frank ... [Read more...]

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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 “... [Read more...]

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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 ... [Read more...]

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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 ... [Read more...]

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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 ... [Read more...]

@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 ... [Read more...]