Category: Blog

  • Getting into Apache Spark

    Intro Most RDBMS’s are just fine. Hadoop does work for Big Data (I used it some years back), although HQL proved a bit slow… And I haven’t “needed” anything to make things faster for now… But for whatever reason, one can’t be “into data science” (or data analysis, or whatever you name it…), without knowing…

  • A quick look at CISA KEV

    Intro I keep hearing about it, so it was time I had a look at that famous CISA “Known Exploited Vulnerability” dataset. Also, it’s been a while since I did something more directly related to IT Security, so this is good. It turns out, it’s quite… Simple (the dataset), and even clean, which makes things…

  • Faster graphs in R: iGraph vs visNetwork

    Intro Network Graphs are NICE and USEFUL (or at least, that’s my opinion). I have used them many a time, and they really usually help me get an understanding that I wouldn’t get by just looking at rows and rows of a table… To visualize such “networks”, I usually prefer the package visNetwork. It’s nice,…