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)
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 ...

By Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
Thu 25 September 2014 | tags: r, rstats, dplyr, -- (permalink)

UPDATE Per the author, a devtools::install_github("hadley/devtools") should take care of everything you need prior to installing the latest dplyr (though I did not have postgres libs installed and suspect that might still be needed).

The R dplyr package just turned 0.3 and to get it working ...

By Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
Thu 18 September 2014 | tags: r, rstats, torrentfreak, bittorrent, pirate, tlapd, movies, -- (permalink)

We leave the Jolly Roger behind this year and turn our piRate spyglass towards the digital seas and take a look at piRated movies as seen through the lens of TorrentFreak. The seasoned seadogs who pilot that ship have been doing a weekly “Top 10 Pirated Movies of the Week ...

By Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
Wed 17 September 2014 | tags: r, rstats, rvest, -- (permalink)

I was offline much of the day Tuesday and completely missed Hadley Wickham’s tweet about the new rvest package:

Are you an #rstats user who misses python's beautiful soup? Please try out rvest (https://t.co/PeiIHr3jDW) and let me know what you think.

— Hadley Wickham (@hadleywickham) September ...

By Jay Jacobs (@jayjacobs)
Mon 15 September 2014 | tags: blog, r, rstats, -- (permalink)

During July I was working with a commercial data source that provides extra data around IP addresses and it dawned on me: rather than pinging billions of IP addresses and creating map, I could create a map from all the geolocation data I had at my finger tips. At a ...

By Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)
Fri 05 September 2014 | tags: r, rstats, slack, notifications, -- (permalink)

Karl Broman did a spiffy job summarizing a good number of the options available to R folk if they want to get notifications from R. You can also generate OS X notifications as well. If you’re using Slack for team coordination and communications, you’ve got a new option ...