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Becoming a data scientist often involves getting a degree or certification and learning skills in cloud computing, statistics and probability, and database management among others. Continue reading How to Become a Data Scientist in 2023: A Cheat Sheet
Data literacy, the ability to read, understand, analyze and communicate information, helps companies make better decisions, improve performance and visualization, and better manage risks and opportunities. Continue reading What Is Data Literacy and Why Is It Important?
Hot on the heels of the previous CyberDefenders Challenge Solution comes this noisy installment which solves their Acoustic challenge. You can find the source Rmd on GitHub, but I’m also testing the limits of WP’s markdown rendering and putting it in-s… Continue reading Acoustic: Solving a CyberDefenders PCAP SIP/RTP Challenge with R, Zeek, tshark (& friends)
It was a rainy weekend in southern Maine and I really didn’t feel like doing chores, so I was skimming through RSS feeds and noticed a link to a PacketMaze challenge in the latest This Week In 4n6. Since it’s also been a while since I’ve done any serio… Continue reading Packet Maze: Solving a CyberDefenders PCAP Puzzle with R, Zeek, and tshark
The fine folks over at @ObservableHQ released a new javascript exploratory visualization library called Plot last week with great fanfare. It was primarily designed to be used in Observable notebooks and I quickly tested it out there (you can find them… Continue reading Using the new Plot Javascript Exploratory Visualization Library Sans-Observable
Those outside the Colonies may not know that Payless—a national chain that made footwear affordable for millions of ‘Muricans who can’t spare $100.00 USD for a pair of shoes their 7 year old will outgrow in a year— is closing. C… Continue reading I Just Wanted The Data : Turning Tableau & Tidyverse Tears Into Smiles with Base R (An Encoding Detective Story)
Today’s RSS feeds picked up this article by Marianne Sullivan, Chris Sellers, Leif Fredrickson, and Sarah Lamdanon on the woeful state of enforcement actions by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). While there has definitely been overr… Continue reading ‘data:’ Scraping & Chart Reproduction : Arrows of Environmental Destruction
I was chatting with some cyber-mates at a recent event and the topic of cyber attacks on the U.S. power-grid came up (as it often does these days). The conversation was brief, but the topic made its way into active memory and resurfaced when I saw toda… Continue reading The Evolution of Data Literacy at the U.S. Department of Energy + Finding Power Grid Cyber Attacks in a Data Haystack
If you come here often you’ve noticed that I’ve been writing a semi-frequent series on using the Feedly API with R. A recent post was created to help someone use the API. It worked for them but — as you can see in the comment — … Continue reading Access Your “Saved for Later” Feedly Items By Hooking Up Dropbox to Feedly
Our family has been reading, listening to and watching “A Christmas Carol” for just abt 30 years now. I got it into my crazy noggin to perform a sentiment analysis on it the other day and tweeted out the results, but a large chunk of the R … Continue reading Sentiment Analysis of “A Christmas Carol”