By Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
Mon 15 December 2014 | tags: blog, vis, excel, pie, bar, bar chart, chart, dashboard, -- (permalink)

As I was cruising through the RSS feeds this morning, I came across this post by Daniel Kennedy on the 451 Research blog that included this chart:

Now, 451 is my personal favorite industry research firm both as a data dude and as a former F100 executive. They’ve got ...

By Jay Jacobs (@jayjacobs)
Thu 11 December 2014 | tags: blog, r, rstats, -- (permalink)

I was recently presenting on the use of statistics for risk analysis at the SIRACon conference held in Minneapolos (Oct. 9th and 10th, 2014). I was explaining how models and algorithms work at a high level: given one or more observations and the outcomes, we build models or algorithms to ...

By Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
Tue 02 December 2014 | tags: blog, R, rstats, -- (permalink)

Since the previous post was fairly popular, I went ahead and built a small shell script (also below) to ease the process of building the OS X Shiny-gist application.

After copying the script to a place you can run it from in your PATH and executing a “chmod a+x ...

By Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
Sun 30 November 2014 | tags: blog, r, rstats, os x, yosemite, -- (permalink)

I was playing with some non-security-oriented R+Shiny code the other day, and thought that Shiny apps would be even more useful if they were double-clickable applications that you could “just run”—provided R was installed on the target system—vs have to cut/paste code into R. Now, I ...

By “Jay Jacobs (@jayjacobs)"
Sun 16 November 2014 | tags: blog, r, rstats, -- (permalink)

SIRAcon, the annual conference for the Society of Information Risk Analysts was held September 9th and 10th. I was fortunate enough to not only attend, but I also spoke (on how to stop worrying and love math) and moderated a fantastic panel with Ali-Samad-Khan, Jack Jones and Doug Hubbard. It ...

By Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
Thu 30 October 2014 | tags: datavis, d3, security, -- (permalink)

Are you:

• A security vendor feeling inadequate because you don’t have your own “live attack graph”?
• A SOC manager who needs to distract/impress visitors and/or executives with an “ooh, shiny!” display?
• A researcher who wants to draw attention to your project but just don’t have the ...

By Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
Wed 29 October 2014 | tags: survey, datavis, r, rstats, rstat, -- (permalink)

Gallup released the results of their annual “Crime” poll in their Social Poll series this week and spent much time highlighting the fact that “cyber” was at the top of the list.

(There’s nary a visualization on the Gallup post or in the accompanying PDF, so keep that graphic ...

By “Jay Jacobs (@jayjacobs)"
Mon 06 October 2014 | tags: blog, r, rstats, -- (permalink)

This is part two of a three-part blog series on building a DGA classifier and it is split into the three phases of building a classifier: 1) Data preparation 2) Feature engineering and 3) Model selection (this post)

Back in part 1, we prepared the data and we are starting ...

By “Jay Jacobs (@jayjacobs)"
Thu 02 October 2014 | tags: blog, r, rstats, -- (permalink)

This is part two of a three-part blog series on building a DGA classifier and it is split into the three phases of building a classifier: 1) Data preperation 2) Feature engineering and 3) Model selection.

Back in part 1, we prepared the data and we are starting with a ...

By “Jay Jacobs (@jayjacobs)"
Tue 30 September 2014 | tags: blog, r, rstats, -- (permalink)

This will be a three-part blog series on building a DGA classifier and will be split into three logical phases of building a classifier: 1) Data preparation (this) 2) Feature engineering and 3) Model selection. And before I get too far into this, I want to give a huge thank ...