Category: Basics

  • Before ML

    Applying Machine Learning algorithms and “doing AI” is only a (relatively) small part of the whole process of modern data analysis. As I have mentioned maybe a few times by now, a much bigger part of it all has to do with gathering, cleaning, “munging”, and then understanding and visualizing. Modelling usually cannot happen before…

  • Logs Classification using ML (1/2)

    Intro In this blog so far, there has been rather little “Machine Learning”. That wasn’t really intentional, but incidentally, it does show something about the whole “Data Science Process”: There is much more time to be dedicated to Data Engineering (i.e. Getting &  Cleaning Data) and Exploratory Data Analysis (a.k.a. EDA, during which the objective…

  • Playing with logs basics – Regex

    Last post of 2020 (most probably). Not specific to R per-se, true. I personally believe that any IT security analyst should be able to work with regular expressions. Not only for logs, mind you, but when it comes to it, I think it is a basic skill. Using regular expressions to filter logs OK so…